Local history

Lundy Island lies far out in the Bristol Channel, between the coasts of North Devon and South Wales.

One of the most colorful parts of American History is the time of train robberies and the daring outlaws who undertook them in the period covering from just after the Civil War to 1924.

During the early eighteenth century, three phratries or tribes (Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf) of Delaware Indians left their traditional homeland in the Delaware River watershed and moved west to the Allegheny Valley of western Pennsylvania and eventually across the Ohio River into the Muskingum River valley.

In this definitive history of a unique tradition, Tyler D.

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Coventry remembers the night of the Blitz, when many people lost their lives, lovely old buildings were destroyed, and the magnificent St Michael's, Coventry's cathedral, was burnt to the ground.

This is an illustrated history of England's largest and most historically diverse county.

Buffalo Bill and the Birth of American Celebrity commemorates the rise of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and tells the tale of a visionary whose real-life experiences (and embellishments) created an entertainment phenomenon that became a worldwide sensation.

Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black freedom through the history of Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Each year thousands of men and women and families recreate on Maine's Public Reserved Lands.

This book looks beyond the headlines to uncover the controversial history of California's ballot measures over the past fifty years.

The East Sussex seaside resort of Eastbourne, at the end of the South Downs alongside the famous Beachy Head, is largely a creation of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls wilderburbs have offered residents both the pleasures of living in nature and the creature comforts of the suburbs.

King's Cross station was the terminus of the Great Northern Railway and was opened in 1852.

This engaging and colorful guidebook brings alive the many lighthouses of the Sunshine State.

The history of the Main Line began in 1832 with the building of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railway, which opened the area to Philadelphia and points west for the movement of people and freight.

Despite its remote location, surrounded by the high ground of the North York Moors, Whitby has featured significantly in history throughout the years.

Today Hastings (and neighbouring St Leonards-on-Sea) is a busy seaside town, popular with holidaymakers and day trippers wanting to soak up its coastal heritage and historic charm.

Point Reyes National Seashore has a long history as a working landscape, with dairy and beef ranching, fishing, and oyster farming; yet, since 1962 it has also been managed as a National Seashore.

Boston, as any Bostonian will proudly tell you, has a long history of achievements and a fine heritage of preserved buildings and structures.

Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Ral Ramos places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story.

Daily Life in the American West details the lives of American Indians, miners, cowboys, immigrants, and settlers who, together, populated the unique region that is the American West.

Steam Around Sheffield, the latest work by prolific railway author Mike Hitches, documents how Yorkshire's 'Steel City' and its environs were faithfully served by steam locomotion for many years.

A history of the earlier Southern gold rush and its legends that-for the first time-ties it to the well-known California gold rush of 1849.

The lives and works of the celebrated Bronte family are so ingrained in our cultural psyche that we think we know them inside out - but walking in the footsteps of the literary greats and their characters offers a new perspective on their work.

Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Alaska.

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

In Securing Paradise, Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez shows how tourism and militarism have functioned together in Hawai`i and the Philippines, jointly empowering the United States to assert its geostrategic and economic interests in the Pacific.

Lying 7 miles south-east of Manchester, the town of Stockport can trace its history back to the foundation of a castle in the area in the late twelfth century and the granting of a borough charter around 1220.

As mankind gave up the nomadic hunter gatherer life and became farmers, they were largely self sufficient.

Victorian and Edwardian Jarrow was a boom town but it also had a dark side.

The British West Indies cover a distinct geographical area.

The quiet city of Lancaster may no longer be as well known as it was in the past, but delve a little deeper and you will come across an exciting story, two millennia in the making.

The ancient town of Kidwelly grew up around its thirteenth-century Norman castle, eventually expanding further during the Industrial Revolution that spread throughout South Wales.

A moving narrative that offers a rare glimpse into the lives of African American men, women, and children on the cusp of freedom, First Fruits of Freedom chronicles one of the first collective migrations of blacks from the South to the North during and after the Civil War.

In common with the rest of Britain's counties, Northamptonshire has a rich heritage of social history in its churches and churchyards.

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

A behind-the-scenes look at the lives of Disneys character performers and their struggles for union democracy Behind thecostumes, life isnt always magic and fairy dust for the people who play theiconic characters of Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and Cinderella at Walt Disney World.

During the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century a growing number of ordinary citizens had the feeling that all was not as it should be.

This collection of essays on seventeenth-century Virginia, the first such collection on the Chesapeake in nearly twenty-five years, highlights emerging directions in scholarship and helps set a new agenda for research in the next decade and beyond.

A thousand unique gravestones cluster around old Presbyterian churches in the piedmont of the two Carolinas and in central Pennsylvania.

Built as the London terminus of the London & Birmingham Railway in July 1837, Euston was London's first intercity railway station.

In order to systematize regional studies, the authors view the southern United States as an integrated system of economic, political, social, and educational institutions.

Devon claims so many classic tales of the supernatural and paranormal: the beckoning White Lady of Berry Pomeroy Castle, the terrifying Whisht Hounds of Dartmoor, the notorious Hairy Hands that wrestle with driver's steering wheels near Postbridge, and the melancholy story of Jay's Grave near Widecombe-in-the-Moor to name but a few.

For more than 130 years, photographers have been recording life in Edenfield, Turn, Stubbins, Irwell Vale and Ewood Bridge.

The Brooklyn Bridge resounds throughout popular culture as an iconic image.

With its incessant fogs and infamously craggy coast, Maine has long been a bane of mariners.

An ancient Celtic settlement, Wigan stands on the River Douglas with its face to the Pennine foothills, 8 miles south-west of Bolton and 20 miles from the South Lancashire coast.

Winner: Ralph Emerson Twitchell AwardThey all came to Taos: Georgia OKeefe, D.

Dedicated local author, Michael Richardson has assembled a unique archive of photographs and postcards of Durham which chronicles the history of the city from 1855 into the 1960s.