Local history

Warrington is a twentieth-century New Town with a history stretching back to prehistoric times.

Scotland is without doubt a beautiful country and it can often look more stunning from the air, from that special bird's-eye view.

This academic book, A Historical Study of the Grange, the Farm Bureau, and the Associated Farmers, 19291941 by Clarke A.

A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San FranciscoDesigning San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.

Rugby From Old Photographs offers a captivating glimpse into the history of this town, providing the reader with a visual representation of Rugby's intriguing and chequered history.

Schooling the New South deftly combines social and political history, gender studies, and African American history into a story of educational reform.

In 1890, Mississippi called a convention to rewrite its constitution.

The 1980s was a decade of immense change in London as well as across the rest of the country, setting in motion social and economic forces that shaped much that we recognise today in the capital, which experienced considerable upheaval in the process.

Surrey Executions lists in chronological order all the criminals hanged in the county during the nineteenth century.

The Richmond campaign of April-July 1862 ranks as one of the most important military operations of the first years of the American Civil War.

Faversham From Old Photographs offers a captivating glimpse into the history of this beautiful market town, providing the reader with a visual representation of Faversham's colourful and chequered history.

No American state is more antistatist than Alaska.

In The Heart of Central New York: Stories of Historic Homer, NY Martin A.

In this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling tales of two white women who, in the 1960s, wrote books about the fabled frontiersman Christopher Kit Carson: Quantrille McClung, a Denver librarian who compiled the Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy, and Kansas-born but Washington, D.

This book covers tragic happenings within the boundaries of the historic county of Cheshire from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience.

Native Americans have occupied the mountains of northwestern North Carolina for around 14,000 years.

Philadelphia began, nearly a century before the American Revolution, as the colony of Englishman and Quaker convert William Penn.

Amersham Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of Buckinghamshire.

Inverness, known as the capital of the Highlands, was designated a Millennium city in 2000.

Scotland boasts a huge variety of landscapes, from spectacular mountain and moorland scenery, beautiful lochs, remote islands and wonderful coastline, to its cultural heritage stretching back through the centuries from medieval times and earlier, its unspoilt towns and villages, through the impact of the Industrial Revolution to its dynamic cities of today.

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.

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

In nineteenth-century England, legal conceptions of work and family changed in fundamental ways.

It Happened in Arizona features thirty-six episodes from Arizona's historyfrom the thirteenth-century creation of the Hohokam's irrigation canals to the building of the Hoover Dam, and fromexplorations of the Grand Canyon to a stagecoach robbery.

The inviting Buckinghamshire town of Aylesbury has far more to offer than just the well-known Aylesbury duck.

For centuries Farnborough was a small town south-west of London, but today it has transformed into a large, vibrant commercial community, synonymous worldwide with the international air show, which it has hosted since 1949, and the home of military aviation.

Long a hub for literary bohemians, countercultural musicians, and readers interested in a good browse, Kepler's Books and Magazines is one of the most influential independent bookstores in American history.

From a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as uncommonly interesting and a remarkable distillation of primary sources.

With the coming of the naval arms race with Germany, in 1903 the Admiralty decided to establish a naval base and dockyard at Rosyth, taking advantage of deep tidal water there.

Stroud has been an important market town in the Cotswolds for centuries.

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

Contributions by Chris Myers Asch, Emilye Crosby, David Cunningham, Jelani Favors, Francoise N.

When the original Encyclopedia of Southern Culture was published in 1989, the topic of foodways was relatively new as a field of scholarly inquiry.

Bagnall, Endon, Stanley and Stockton Brook are situated to the north-east of the Potteries conurbation in North Staffordshire and form a rough triangle pointing towards Leek.

The modern town of Gillingham grew up on the banks of the River Medway around the Royal Naval Dockyard of Chatham, most of which actually lay within Gillingham.

Perpetual sunshine, palm trees, miles of unbroken beaches, yachts, cliff-top mansions, millionairesthese are the images of Orange County that come to mind for many people, and there is much truth in this depiction, for Orange County is a place of boundless natural wonders that attracts more than 25 million tourists a year.

The real lives of the historic figures in Old West Showdown are shrouded in controversy and myth.

In this stunning, full-colour book, John Kinross explores the fascinating history behind the smaller, lesser-known churches of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Cheshire and the Welsh borders.

This is the first biography of the legendary officer Cipriano Baca, scion of a prestigious Spanish lineage tracing their heritage to the first settlers in Nuevo Mexico.

Who was the biggest, baddest outlaw in the Old West?

The South Bank has become one of London's most popular cultural destinations.

Gillingham was once an independent and separate borough with its own character and personality, but in 1998 it lost this separate identity when it joined Chatham, Rochester and Strood to become part of the unitary authority of Medway Council.

In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt planned a tour of the mid-West and Western states.

The Victorian era saw great changes to the nation's capital.

Quilting has a rich history in Maine and America and its popularity has surged in recent years as people return to traditional handcrafts.

In Yorkshire: There and Back, Andrew Martin celebrates Britain's most charismatic county, looking back at the Yorkshire of his 1970s childhood and as it is today.

Flixton, Urmston and Davyhulme, in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, form a fascinating and historically diverse district.

How do you find the strength to forgive in the midst of unthinkable grief?

In 1750 the Appalachian Mountains were a formidable barrier between the British colonies in the east and French territory in the west, passable only on foot or horseback.