Local history

From Skye to Seil, Jura to Gigha, the islands off the west coast of Scotland offer some of the most stunning scenery in Europe.

An eye-opening account of the Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902, showing how the strikeand the violent backlash that ensuedreveal the genesis of modern policing.

The only city in West Sussex, Chichester's history dates back to the Roman era when Noviomagus Reginorum was founded as a military garrison shortly after the Roman invasion of AD 43.

The California Progressives offers an in-depth exploration of the progressive movement as it unfolded in California, shedding light on its role in shaping both state and national reform efforts between 1900 and 1916.

Our Founding Fathers left us a trail of documents leading to the America we know today.

Conventional wisdom holds that freedmens education was largely the work of privileged, single white northern women motivated by evangelical beliefs and abolitionism.

In March 1863, news of a controversial draft law hit the streets of Detroit as local saloonkeeper William Faulkner stood trial for raping two young girls.

The Staffordshire city of Lichfield has a wealth of history, much of which is reflected in its many historic buildings and landmarks.

There are few places where mobility has shaped identity as widely as the American West, but some locations and populations sit at its major crossroads, maintaining control over place and mobility, labor and race.

We have a book in our hands that is the result of nearly thirty years spent collecting its material, compiling it, and presenting it in a readable and understandable way that is not satisfied with the old as it is and does not embrace the new without distinction.

Every home has a story to tell!

The 1960s saw the last hurrah of steam on the railways - the final period of steam-powered locomotives dominating the main line.

We have a book in our hands that is the result of nearly thirty years spent collecting its material, compiling it, and presenting it in a readable and understandable way that is not satisfied with the old as it is and does not embrace the new without distinction.

Herefordshire is still a largely rural and agricultural county, centred on the cathedral city of Hereford, but it has had infamous and bloody events in its past, including shocking murders and appalling crimes.

In this book of ours, Muhammad Kurd Ali takes a three-pronged approach: he cites, then refutes, then confirms and clarifies.

A Kansas Notable BookArnold Bauer grew up on his familys 160-acre farm in Goshen Township in Clay County, Kansas, amidst a land of prairie grass and rich creek-bottom soil.

The Arabian Gulf region is one of the important and strategic regions in the yellow continent of Asia, and indeed in the entire world, due to its location that connects the East to the West, and its recent mineral resources (petroleum), as it is the lifeline of most industrialized and developing countries, whether in Asia, Europe, the Americas, Australia, or Africa, in addition to what it contains.

The early struggle for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and 1970s has typically been told from the perspective of the coastsin places like New York, San Francisco, and Miami.

Wallington village in Hampshire lies adjacent to the town of Fareham, but its rich history and heritage goes back millennia.

From 1100 Lynn's prominence as an English port town depended on an extensive hinterland embraced by the Great Ouse river system.

The market town of Beccles lies on the River Waveney, close to the Norfolk Broads, and floods have been part of its history.

In his valuable study of the conditions of the Bedouins and tribes in the Arab countries, the author relied on his observations and observations resulting from his living with the endemic or semi-endemic tribes and clans on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates, in addition to his knowledge of what was written about those areas by orientalists and Arab specialists, gathering the common denominators of the conditions of the Bedouins and tribes, He classified them smoothly and concisely.

In this unique book, Father Anstani Al-Karmeli collects the news and narratives contained in ancient Arab coins, their origin, classifications, circumstances of their formation, and the political, economic and social factors that contributed to their development over successive eras, in a work that goes beyond its historical and documentation function to an aesthetic one by describing coins as part of the crystallization of what was later known as art.

Is Jerusalem, whose name is allegedly mentioned in the Torah, the same city mentioned in the Holy Book of Judaism as "Jerusalem," and do the two names together indicate one specific place, as the contemporary Israeli narrative says?

This book tells the story of James Hudson, a Black philosopher, Florida A&M University professor, activist, and religious leader whose philosophical contributions laid a key piece of the groundwork for the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement.

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A Scotsman's guide to the extraordinary tapestry of the land, history, folklore and stories of his homeland.

In my book, "Blown by Iraq," published in 2019 by this honorable publishing house, "Dar al-Rafidain," there was an attempt to document the stormy Iraqi political and social events of the period 1991-2003, and here in this new book there is an attempt to document the terrible phase itself and read it through cultural facts, where it is not possible to approach The Iraqi scene, specifically since the wars and campaigns of repression imposed their heavy and destructive presence on the country and its people, has been a scene completely devoured by alienation and exile.

Anyone who has ever traveled to Florida immediately assumes they've got the state figured out.

Ireland has a great diversity of beautiful landscapes.

We have a book in our hands that is the result of nearly thirty years spent collecting its material, compiling it, and presenting it in a readable and understandable way that is not satisfied with the old as it is and does not embrace the new without distinction.

This study is a product of the era of dialogue between religious civilizations in the 15th century AH / 21st AD.

Frommers books arent written by committee or by travel writers who simply pop in briefly to a destination and then consider the job done.

Human history is divided into two basic stages: the prehistoric stage, which covers 98% of human history, and the historical era stage, which occupies 2% of human history.

In this book of ours, Muhammad Kurd Ali takes a three-pronged approach: he cites, then refutes, then confirms and clarifies.

Manchester and Salford, two cities whose heritage is intricately entwined, are noted for their industrial history, and this book looks at their thriving brewing industry.

The Epic of Ira is considered one of the classics of ancient Iraqi literature.

We have a book in our hands that is the result of nearly thirty years spent collecting its material, compiling it, and presenting it in a readable and understandable way that is not satisfied with the old as it is and does not embrace the new without distinction.

Bideford is a historic port on the River Torridge in north Devon.

Created in 1974, Tyne and Wear is a relatively young county which incorporates the boroughs of Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland.

Taunton is the county town of Somerset.

Roger Williams is best known as the founder of Rhode Island who was banished from Massachusetts in 1636 for his dangerous thoughts on religious liberty.

The history of America's third-largest city, as told through stories and photos from the Chicago Tribune archives.

Throughout Suffolk's history, important national figures have played a role in the county.

On May 25th, 1946, after 22 years as a congressional secretary, Jane Pratt was elected as North Carolina's first congresswoman.

How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German Kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Birmingham were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years.

This is an entrancing book, in the literal sense of the word.

Brass Bands Play an important part in Barnsley's rich cultural and musical heritage.

Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Cornwall, or as it is sometimes obscurely referred to, Merry Jack.