Local history

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An illustrated city walking guide like no other.

Watford is situated between the Rivers Gade and Colne, fifteen miles north-west of London in what Charles Lamb, the eighteenth-century English essayist, once called 'hearty, homely, loving Hertfordshire'.

Today Warrington is a thriving business and commercial centre where its workers might be found sitting at computer terminals in offices and business parks, building societies, call centres and travel agents; or scanning goods at supermarket checkouts and super stores; frothing cappuccinos in cafe bars or delivering pizzas.

Harpenden: The Postcard Collection depicts a vibrant selection of over 170 images captured during the first half of the twentieth century by a small but dedicated group of photographers, who recorded for posterity the copious views of this picturesque village and the immediate surrounding area.

In the same absorbing style that characterized his bestseller Lost Hollywood, David Wallace presents a the Prohibition-era personalities and events that made New York City the cultural and financial capital of the world.

When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, Atlanta had the South's largest population of college-educated African Americans.

This book was the first broad expose of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California.

The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of our most popular images of white southern culture.

How is the state produced?

The old horse pulled the baker's van along its daily route, stopping and waiting for its usual customers in the peaceful village.

The history of a settlement at Southampton and its role as a major port on the south coast goes back to Roman times and beyond.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the U.

Dramatic, highly readable, and painstakingly researched, The Great Desert Escape brings to light a little-known escape by 25 determined German sailors from an American prisoner-of-war camp.

A beautiful, full-color guidebook to more than 40 of the best hikes following the history of the state of Washington.

From one of the earliest mentions of its name in the sixth century to the Covid lockdowns of the twenty-first, this is a magnificent portrait of one of the world's great cities in its many iterations, from 'Edinburgh, the sink of abomination' to the Athens of the North and everything - including the home of the Enlightenment, the Festival City, the Aids Capital of Europe and a Mecca for tourists seeking tartan tat - in between.

Contributions by Grace Elizabeth Hale, Katie Knowles, Ted Ownby, Jonathan Prude, William Sturkey, Susannah Walker, Becca Walton, and Sarah Jones WeickselFashion studies have long centered on the art and preservation of finely rendered garments of the upper class, and archival resources used in the study of southern history have gaps and silences.

After the Civil War, the New York City's East River was a massive unsolved and dangerous navigation problem.

In Prosperos America, Walter W.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation.

State Oddities takes a different kind of look at the American nation, spotlighting the fun foibles, peculiarities, and twists in each of the 50 states that are (mostly) united under the Stars and Stripes.

Somerset has a varied landscape, from upland Exmoor to the low-lying wetland levels and moors, and the mineral rich Mendips to the agricultural land of South Somerset.

Nestled in the heart of the Finger Lakes region, Auburn, New York, is home to some of the key figures in our nation's history.

Investigating Historys MysteriesThe assassination of Sheriff Pat Garrett, one of the most notorious lawmen of the American West, remained one of the most puzzling and perplexing unsolved mysteries for more than a century.

Filling a long-standing gap both in women's history and in the material history of class culture, this book is a unique and necessary reassessment of the social and cultural scene during the inter-war period in England.

Selkirk obtained its original charter in the twelfth century from David I and it is one of the oldest burghs in Scotland.

In the heart of Indian Country in the American west, clandestine criminals have profited greatly from the sale of sacred Native American artifacts stolen from tribal lands.

Pictorial books such as this dedicated to the past are not only invaluable to local historians, but also of interest to anyone wishing to know more about the history of the place they live or work in, for old photographs can provide fascinating insight and a tool to compare past and present.

Barrow-in-Furness was transformed by the industrial expansion of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, leading to it becoming a centre for ship and submarine building.

Uncover the Story of a Remarkable Woman of the WestEsther Morris (1812-1902) was a unique American woman whose life paralleled the dramatic events of the 19th century: abolition, railroads, Civil War, and suffrage.

Mansfield Through Time offers a cameo glimpse of a town whose character and identity has, over the last few hundred years, been moulded, modified and tempered by coal mining and the Industrial Revolution.

For over four centuries, California has been an ever-changing landscape of innovation and revolution, triumph and tragedy.

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Prior to 1960, presidential nominees were largely selected in the infamous "e;smoke filled rooms"e; of state party conventions.

Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy.

**Winner of the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (History, Other)**Lawman or Outlaw?

It is no understatement to say that Lincoln's story is told in its buildings.

In February of 1897 a family of six--four generations, including twin infant sons and their aged great-grandmother--was brutally murdered in rural North Dakota.

Kansas Boy: The Memoir of A.

On October 1, 1962, James Meredith was the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.

Thirty years after AIDS was first recognized, the American South constitutes the epicenter of the United States' epidemic.

The foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina.

This book explores the role and influence of drink and drugs (primarily opium) in the Old West, which for this book is considered to be America west of the Mississippi from the California gold rush of the 1840s to the closing of the Western Frontier in roughly 1900.

There are many books written on Bury St Edmunds, some academic, others having a more simplistic approach.

Stroud is a fascinating Cotswold market town, built on a hillside at the convergence of five valleys.

To Western Scottish Waters: By Rail & Steamer to the Isles is a pictorial tour through the decades and a peek into how both people and goods have travelled to the Isles over the years.

Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth.

At the very beginning of the interwar period, a small collection of formally trained architects created a distinctive residential type which can undoubtedly be recognized as a Philadelphia landmark.

Wales is said to be the most haunted country in the world.

The Railroad Age, The Depression, World War II, The Atomic Age, The Sixties-these periods shaped and were in turn shaped by Berkeley, California-a city that has had a remarkable influence given its modest size.