Local history

Where were Cut Throat Alley and Heathen Street?

Caernarfon, situated on the southern bank of the Menai Strait facing the Isle of Anglesey, is a royal town, community and port in Gwynedd, Wales.

This is the third volume in a unique and exciting series on the modern history of York.

This is the second volume in a unique and exciting series on the history of York.

In 1560, when Mary of Guise ran Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, remained in France, Mary of Guise moved the Scottish Court to Leith, a site that is now Parliament Street, off Coalhill.

This book seeks to explore the River Tyne as it runs from source to sea, using old and contemporary photographs together with postcards to explore the communities, settlements and industries that have existed along its course.

The 1950s in York was a decade of reconstruction and regeneration after the depredations of the Second World War.

For the people of Leicester, the 1960s was a decade of great social and economic change.

When you ask most people about Liverpool, you could be forgiven for thinking that the city is only famous for its maritime history, its two successful football teams or for being the birthplace of The Beatles - but there is so much more to this amazing city than meets the casual eye.

Derby is an exceptional and underrated city.

Home to the largest medieval gothic cathedral north of the Alps, York is one of Europe's most historically interesting cities.

Rickmansworth, Croxley Green and Chorleywood Through Time takes the reader on a nostalgic journey back to an age when the pace of life was much slower and more tranquil than it is today.

London's Docklands have a rich and varied history.

The 1970s was a decade of change.

Like every other town in Great Britain, Colwyn Bay spent the 1950s shaking off the effects and austerity that were the legacy of the Second World War.

During the 1,000-year history of Bury St Edmunds, the town has acquired a mix of unexpected, weird and wonderful examples of buildings and the people associated with them.

At the beginning of the 1950s, Leicester was an industrial city picking itself up from the debris of the Second World War.

Hartlepool Through The Ages is a sister volume to Paul Chrystal's Hartlepool Through Time, produced this time with Stan Laundon.

The incredible true story of what really happened in the Channel Islands during the Second World War.

Herne Bay rose to prominence in the 1830s when a group of London investors recognised its potential and built a pleasure pier and promenade here, making it one of the UK's earliest seaside resorts.

The history of East Shropshire has had a global impact, with Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale acknowledged as the 'Cradle of the Industrial Revolution'.

The centre of Manchester is an area rich in social and cultural history.

The ancient town of Dunfermline is one of the oldest settlements in Scotland and, from the eleventh to the seventeenth century, it was the residence of royalty and the final resting place for many of Scotland's Kings and Queens.

Coal was the very bedrock on which the town of Whitehaven was built, the trade in coal with Dublin starting after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

The River Forth is one of Scotland's great waterways.

Besides having a fascinating geology, the North Kent Coast bears the marks of most periods of our history.

The Mersey has changed over the past thirty years.

CASTLETON today is a busy tourist village at the west end of the Hope Valley in the Peak District.

The Manchester Ship Canal was a huge engineering achievement.

Newport Through Time highlights the journey of a city that began over 700 years ago when the first mayor took office in AD 1314.

Not all of Edinburgh's history is well known; some of it has remained a secret, lost behind the facades of the familiar and hidden from view .

The Cornwall Railway was authorised on 3 August 1846 with the aim of constructing a broad gauge rail link between Plymouth, Truro and Falmouth.

The Great War (1914-1918), later known as the First World War, brought together the major European countries and their empires into the world's greatest conflict so far seen.

Barnsley, Rotherham and Worksop sit on top of the Midland coalfield, stretching from Nottingham into Yorkshire and the mining industry in this area once supported tens of thousands of jobs in collieries dotted across the landscape.

The culmination of some forty years of research sees Ken Wain tell the story of the mining industry in this part of South Yorkshire.

Edinburgh's New Town, built between 1767 and 1850, is one of Europe's finest neoclassical neighbourhoods, a triumph of town planning, with UNESCO World Heritage status.

The 1950s.

The pubs of Stoke are numerous, and each has its own fascinating tale to tell.

As authorised in 1835, the Great Western Railway extended from London to Bristol, but from the very earliest days, ambitious promoters were planning a whole series of extensions to destinations such as Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Cornwall and South Wales.

Waterford is located on the sunny south-east coast of Ireland.

There is a history of East Grinstead that is hidden from view, lost under the modern town's bustling surface.

Richmond upon Thames was the first borough to be known as the 'Queen of the Suburbs', before Ealing or Surbiton were known by this sobriquet.

Nestled in the rolling Border hills, at the meeting of the River Teviot and Slitrig Water, Hawick is deserving of its title as 'Queen o' a' the Borders'.

'Where do flies go in the winter?

The market town of Altrincham, historically a part of Cheshire but now part of the metropolitan borough of Trafford, has a rich history.

Ind Coope & Samuel Allsopp Breweries: The History Of The Hand charts the fortunes of two Burton upon Trent brewing giants: Samuel Allsopp, founded in the town in 1742 by Benjamin Wilson (Senior) and Ind Coope, who expanded to Burton upon Trent from Romford in 1856.

Wigan grew rapidly during the nineteenth century as a major cotton mill town and centre for coal mining, aided by the construction of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal which passed through the town.

Once a relatively small rural settlement on the River Clyde, Glasgow expanded dramatically over the centuries to become the largest city in Scotland.

The River Don in South Yorkshire flows through a changing landscape.

Runcorn's position on the Mersey was identified as early as 915, by the Saxon princess Ethelfleda.