Local history

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America has a long tradition of middle-class radicalism, albeit one that intellectual orthodoxy has tended to obscure.

From the Pennsylvania Dutch Country in Southeastern and Central Pennsylvania has spread the fun holiday celebration of Groundhog Day.

Belfast (Irish: Beal Feirste 'mouth of the sandbank ford') is the capital city of Northern Ireland.

Greenwich was home to a royal palace from medieval times and was a particular favourite of the Tudor monarchs, and the Royal Observatory was built in Greenwich Park in the reign of Charles II.

An in-depth examination of the economic and social transition from slavery to capitalism during ReconstructionAt the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism.

Southampton has been a major port on the south coast of England since the Middle Ages.

As one of the earliest recorded towns in Britain, St Albans has had a long, colourful and distinguished history.

Stafford means 'ford' by a 'staithe' (landing place).

The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida's long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands.

So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles.

The amazing county of Yorkshire offers some of the most diverse and rich landscapes, seasides and cityscapes in the British Isles.

This book traces memoirs of a family doctor who shunned the notion of becoming a physician as he observed his family doctor father while growing up.

Unlike the movie ghost towns of the Old West, the ghost towns in Florida dont have tumbleweeds rolling on deserted dirt roads, abandoned wooden saloons, and lone drifters on horseback.

Whalley is sheltered by the wooded hillside of Whalley Nab on the banks of the beautiful River Calder.

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.

The Life of Paper offers a wholly original and inspiring analysis of how people facing systematic social dismantling have engaged letter correspondence to remake themselvesfrom bodily integrity to subjectivity and collective and spiritual being.

The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway, was one of the lines managed and operated by Colonel Holman Fred Stephens from his office in Salford Terrace in Tonbridge Kent.

From ski towns to national parks, fresh fruit to environmental lawsuits, the Sierra Nevada has changed the way Americans live.

This is the new "e;pocket"e; version of the classic California Place Names, first published by California in 1949.

Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring greater intellectual and historical clarity to the muted lives of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century central New Jersey, where blacks were held in bondage for nearly two centuries.

Everett Ruess was twenty years old when he vanished into the canyonlands of southern Utah, spawning the myth of a romantic desert wanderer that survives to this day.

In May 1891, Joe Quigley embarked on a journey north to try his luck prospecting for gold in Alaska.

In March 2020, London, along with the rest of Britain, entered a lockdown designed to protect the community against the Covid-19 virus.

London's suburbs may stretch for well over 600 square miles, but in historical accounts of the capital they tend to take something of a back seat.

The Caraleigh neighborhood in south Raleigh was founded in 1892 with the opening of a cotton mill, fertilizer plant and workers' town.

Leicester has long been an important city in the East Midlands.

The branch lines of Oxfordshire were not so numerous as those of some other counties, but they carried a wide variety of locomotives and rolling stock, and included specialist lines such as those for Morris Cowley, as well as branches of the Great Western Railway.

Main Selection of the History Book ClubThe Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil Wars turning point, produced over 57,000 casualties, the largest number from the entire war that was itself Americas bloodiest conflict.

This book is a study of waterways infrastructure and investigates through images and maps how the present midland network of canal and river navigations was put together.

As the anchor titles in a new ';Time Machine' Lyons Press baseball series, The Ultimate Cleveland Indians Time Machine presents a timeline format that not only includes the Indians' greatest momentsincluding World Series appearances and individual achievementsbut would focus also on some very unusual seasons and events, such as the team's 20-134 season of 1899 (the absolute worst in baseball history), the Crybabies of 1940 (who received this nickname after complaining about their manager to such as extent that fans even turned on them), or the infamous ';Ten Cent Beer Night of 1974' (when thousands of drunken fans stormed the field and forced the team to forfeit).

NYC tour guides and authors James and Michelle Nevius explore the lives of 20 iconic New Yorkersfrom Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant to Alexander Hamilton, park architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux to JP Morgan and John D.

Pembroke Dock Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country.

Derby has been variously described as the 'crossroads of history', 'the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution', 'the real ale capital of the world', 'Jubilee City' and 'the most haunted place in the country'.

Ohio sent eight presidents to the White House--one Whig and seven Republicans--from 1841 to 1923: William Harrison, U.

In this series, private investigators pick up where the historians left off, taking on a series of major cold cases in history, starting with the mishandling of evidence relating to the life and times of Billy the Kid.

A visit from the President of the United States always brings with it excitement.

The Manor of Northam dates back to the Norman invasion and is well recorded in the Domesday Book, being part of lands owned by a Saxon Lord called Bristric, and this appears to be the first recorded evidence of what was in the area.

Few counties can rival Essex's extensive and varied military history.

Even after WWI had ended, the region of Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas stubbornly refused to be tamed.

Opened on 17 July 1761, the canal has a special place in history as the first to be built in Britain without following an existing watercourse, and so became a model for those that followed.

Florida served as one of the great meeting grounds of the planet, a place where peoples from Indian America, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe converged.

As one of America's most important missionaries, Junpero Serra is widely recognized as the founding father of California's missions.

The large town of Stockport is situated 7 miles from Manchester city centre and lies at the confluence of the Tame, Goyt and Mersey rivers.

Salisbury is often described as 'the city in the countryside'.

From the sixteenth century through the twentieth, Texans have had interesting things to say about themselves, their home, and the rest of the world.

Who set the mysterious fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War?

Significant as a political, economic, and social organization, the southern Farmers' Alliance was the largest and most influential farmers' organization in the history of the United States until the rise of the American Farm Bureau Federation.

The two rivers that run through Chelmsford - the Chelmer and the Can - were paramount in its making.

It is a beautiful, informative, authentic and comprehensive study by an experienced writer on Ladakh.