Local history

The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of the intellectual.

Here is an entertaining collection of John Muirs most exciting adventures, representing some of his finest writing.

The history of Macclesfield goes back to a Saxon settlement once held by Edwin, Earl of Mercia.

Forty miles out into the Atlantic from the western isles of Scotland lies the archipelago of St Kilda.

Forty miles out into the Atlantic from the western isles of Scotland lies the archipelago of St Kilda.

We all love stories don't we, especially true ones.

This book is about the map of an English county – Hertfordshire – which was published in 1766 by two London mapmakers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews.

By the late nineteenth century, Belfast had developed into one of the great industrial cities in the Empire.

The close ties between the people and the land in Ulster has only within the last two generations, been replaced by a more urban 'modern' lifestyle.

In the eighteenth century, County Armagh was famously referred to as 'a very independent county' given the distinctive nature of politics and electioneering in parliamentary elections.

This book paints an intimate picture of Comber, County Down, home town of Thomas Andrews Junior, Shipbuilder, during the thirty-nine years of his short but hugely influential life(1873 1912).

Belmore: The Lowry-Corry Families of Castle Coole, 1646-1913 tells the fascinating story of two families who left Dumfries in the mid 17th century to settle in Fermanagh and Tyrone.

In this fully revised and updated third edition of The Cornish Overseas (2020), Philip Payton draws upon almost two decades of additional research undertaken by historians the world over since the first paperback version of this book was published in 2005.

In this fully revised and updated third edition of The Cornish Overseas (2020), Philip Payton draws upon almost two decades of additional research undertaken by historians the world over since the first paperback version of this book was published in 2005.

Anglo-Saxon Mercia was a great power in its day, although many aspects of it have been shrouded in myth and mystery.

The classic Federal Writers' Project guide to New Orleans history, folklore, and streets.

From prairie mud to the Century of Progress.

Perched on an isolated rock in the Scottish Hebrides, this is a fascinating account of Skerryvore, 'the most graceful lighthouse in the world', and the great Victorian engineer who designed and built it.

A tale of 117 years of devotion to duty, peacefulness and calm, disrupted forever by a day of inexplicable violence, a community's battle to have a lighthouse built.

The 125 years since the Diocese of Wakefield was formed have seen immense changes both within the Church and society.

From its misty beginnings as part of the mainland in the Stone Age, this history covers Lindisfarne's formation as an island, the Roman and Anglo-Saxon eras, the influence of Columba and Iona, Lindisfarne's own apostle, Bede and the monastic tradition, the coming of the Vikings, the Benedictine years and the dissolution of the monasteries.

Lane shows how globalisation has transformed the Mafia into more than simply a local phenomenon.

Dublin has many histories: for a thousand years a modest urban settlement on the quiet waters of the Irish Sea, for the last four hundred it has experienced great - and often astonishing - change.

In his last book, The Real Gorbals Story, Colin MacFarlane detailed how he witnessed a once great area, home to wonderful characters and grand old buildings, disappear before his eyes.

Sandwich today is a quiet Kentish town on the banks of the river Stour where small pleasure craft tie up at The Quay.

Step behind the scenes of the biggest mystery of the British IslesLoch Ness is one of the most popular visitor sites in the world.

A compendium of 28 beautiful, historical Scottish Castles for local and visitor alikeScotland: A land with rich history, wild landscapes and some of the most beautiful castles on Earth.

A DEVON HOUSE relates the story of one of Devon's great houses through the people and events which have coloured its existence over the past 400 years.

This collection of essays provides an overview of research on the social uses of media.

The paddle steamer holds a unique place in the history of maritime engineering.

Danish Northwest is a poetry collection that shows "e;hygge"e; in its various aspects as practiced or rendered in the outskirts of Denmark, more precisely in the northwestern region of Jutland called Thy.

A guide to places to visit, history and wildlife along the Liverpool, Wirral and Cheshire shores of the Mersey EstuaryStretching for around thirty miles to the coast, the Mersey Estuary is perhaps best known for Liverpool s spectacular waterfront and the Mersey Ferry.

Rachel Moores and her husband David operated a cotton plantation in the bottoms of the Sulphur River in North East Texas.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Carl ChinnThe Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread.

Ancient Pacific Northwest Coastal epic from the Samish people, as told by master storyteller, spiritual teacher and healer, Johnny Moses.

A trip through Scotland's West Coast islands.

One of the Daily Telegraph's 20 Books Perfect for TravelScotland has its rugged Hebrides; Ireland its cliff-girt Arans; Wales its Island of Twenty Thousand Saints.

San Francisco is an iconic and symbolic city.

In the febrile religious and political climate of late sixteenth-century England, when the grip of the Reformation was as yet fragile and insecure, and underground papism still perceived to be rife, Lancashire was felt by the Protestant authorities to be a sinister corner of superstition, lawlessness and popery.

William Blake famously imagined 'Jerusalem builded here' in London.

With a past as deep and sinewy as the famous River Thames that twists like an eel around the jutting peninsula of Mudchute and the Isle of Dogs, London is one of the world's greatest and most resilient cities.

What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines?

William Blake famously imagined 'Jerusalem builded here' in London.

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.

For centuries the deaf community endured a mixture of derision, ignorance and poverty; they suffered what Dr Johnson described as 'one of the most desperate of human calamities'.

The first human organ transplant in 1950 at a suburban hospital is the focus of The Graft: How a Pioneering Operation Sparked the Modern Age of Organ Transplants.

In a community hospital in suburban Chicago run by Catholic nuns, surgeons performed an operation never done in the world before.

'I don't know any tract of land in which in so narrow a compass may be found an equal variety of sublime and beautiful features'.

January River translated means Rio de Janeiro.

A beautifully illustrated introduction to mudlarking which tells the incredible, forgotten history of London through objects found on the foreshore of the River Thames.