Local history

Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk, lies on the estuary of the River Orwell in East Anglia.

Enfield is on the northern edge of Greater London, with the green belt to the north.

Animals have shaped the cultural and economic life of Glasgow through the ages, and many statues and other memorials around the city honour the role played by animals in the city's history.

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examines how mass media have shaped popular perceptions of the South--and how the South has shaped the history of mass media.

In the early twentieth century, two wealthy white sisters, cousins to a North Carolina governor, wrote identical wills that left their substantial homeplace to a black man and his daughter.

No American state is more antistatist than Alaska.

A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Midwest.

What can you write about Abergavenny that hasn't already been written?

Creating the first comprehensive narrative of Mississippi since the bicentennial history was published in 1976, Dennis J.

Northamptonshire has witnessed a great many events and incidents, some of national importance, others of purely local significance.

The branch lines of Devon were particularly numerous and this second volume on the county covers Plymouth, west and north Devon.

In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South.

Kent has one of the most diverse and rich military histories of any county in England.

There are moments when we forget how fortunate we are to have the California coast.

In this definitive history of a unique tradition, Tyler D.

There is hardly a city in the world with richer historical and cultural assocations than London.

Driven by the promise of prosperity and opportunity on the frontier, thousands of men and women traveled west in the mid-1800s to forge a new life.

The Texas Ranger law enforcement agency features so prominently in Texan and Wild West folklore that its accomplishments have been featured in everything from pulp novels to popular television.

William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history.

The Georgian town of Whitehaven, located on the West coast of Cumbria, was once the third most important port in Britain but today is only used by a handful of fishing vessels.

'Go where we will throughout England, there is no spot which is not boundup with our history.

Within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most brutal murders and executions committed in the Worcestershire area.

Camberwell is an important part of the London Borough of Southwark, the city's most historic borough.

The Scarborough & Whitby Railway was opened in July 1885.

Blackpool was 'created' from sparsely populated farmland and villages for the purpose of visitors having fun and pleasure.

They were Uncle Sams smiling workers and they looked like all-American boys.

Keswick is one of the most popular towns in Cumbria, beloved by local residents and the thousands of holidaymakers who visit the Lake District every year.

Appalachia first entered the American consciousness as a distinct region in the decades following the Civil War.

The inimitable Charles Dickens is regarded by many as the finest novelist of the Victorian era.

Providing a chronological and interpretive spine to the twenty-four volumes of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, this volume broadly surveys history in the American South from the Paleoindian period (approximately 8000 B.

Every home has a story to tell!

The landlocked county of Wiltshire, characterised by its high downland and wide valleys, has a rich military history that stretches back through the centuries.

San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America.

Rochester in Kent has long been a strategically important town, guarding the lowest crossing of the River Medway.

In recent years, shrimpers on the Louisiana coast have faced a historically dire shrimp season, with the price of shrimp barely high enough to justify trawling.

When Governor Terry Sanford established the North Carolina Fund in 1963, he saw it as a way to provide a better life for the "e;tens of thousands whose family income is so low that daily subsistence is always in doubt.

Somerset is one of the most diverse counties in England and includes Exmoor, the Quantock, Brendon and Mendip hills, traces of ancient mining, the watery Levels overlooked by Glastonbury Tor, tucked-away historic towns and rural villages that have magnificent medieval churches built with the wealth of the wool trade, the coast of the Bristol Channel, the small city of Wells with its magnificent cathedral, and the World Heritage city of Bath and other historic towns such as Taunton.

Throughout the 1960s, there was a feeling of prosperity and progress in Preston.

Birmingham - Britain's second largest city - lies in the heart of the country.

Author and historian David Paul brings us a selection of the strange and mythical tales from across Derbyshire, from the Peak District and its rural landscape to its towns and cities, and from ancient settlements and villages to places that grew up around mining and other industries.

The small town of Bruton is one of Somerset's hidden gems.

One of the UK's largest cities, Leeds is a major commercial, financial and cultural centre in West Yorkshire.

In recent years, dozens of counties in North Carolina have partnered with federal law enforcement in the criminalization of immigration-what many have dubbed “crimmigration.

Winner: National Outdoor Book AwardA Kansas Notable BookThe upper Arkansas River courses through the heart of America from its headwaters near the Continental Divide above Leadville, Colorado, to Arkansas City, just above the Kansas-Oklahoma border.

The Great Northern Railway was built to provide a direct link between London and Yorkshire.

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An amazing number of the words we use today were invented in the First World War.

A sweeping chronicle of Jewish life in the Tar Heel State from colonial times to the present, this beautifully illustrated volume incorporates oral histories, original historical documents, and profiles of fascinating individuals.