Local and family history, nostalgia

In September 1665, plague was inadvertently transported from London to Eyam in Derbyshire on a consignment of cloth.

Glasgow is a great city.

Most of us now live in towns and cities, but until relatively recently the majority of English people were villagers.

Recalling the successful 'Glasgow Smiles Better' campaign of the 1980s, Michael Meighan restarts his journey begun in his previous book Glasgow Smells.

Bittersweet charts the story of a great preserves empire and the extraordinary man at its heart.

The majority of South Yorkshire's twenty-first century residents are oblivious to the unique and fascinating Sand House that graced Doncaster from the mid-1850s until the Second World War.

Stronghold of the Romans, and later the Vikings, York was to become the powerbase of the infamous 'Railway King', George Hudson, whose empire would eventually extend from the far north of England to the south and south-west.

By the late nineteenth century the Black Country had become one of the most intensely industrialised areas of the nation: the South Staffordshire coal mines, the coal coking operations, and the iron foundries and steel mills that used the local coal to fire their furnaces, produced a level of air pollution that had few equals anywhere in the world.

The branch lines of Dorset, shared almost equally between the GWR and LSWR, varied from lightly built, rural railways carrying a low volume of traffic, to the Swanage branch, which at times carried main line express locomotives.

Barra - Episodes from an Island's History looks at a dozen episodes of particular interest and importance in the history of Barra and the Bishop's Isles, from the time of the Pioneers who first settled the islands around 3500 BC to the Vatersay Raiders of 1906.

Plague has been the most feared disease across Europe since the Black Death in the 1340s.

For over seventy-five years, Butlin's have been entertaining families of all ages.

There is a lot of controversy over the history of Stilton cheese: its origins, who first made it, and who now has the rights to the name and recipe.

Thomas Lord's ground is one of the most famous sporting venues in the world.

Could it be that a ghostly woman carrying a baby is destined to repeatedly throw herself into the Ribble at West Bradford?

A ring of spectacular cemeteries, developed at the edges of London in the decade from 1832, have long been referred to as The Magnificent Seven.

DRACULA is such an iconic figure that he has inspired hundreds of films and television programmes for over a century.

Eltham, long a little-known jewel in Greater London's crown, has welcomed growing numbers of tourists since Greenwich was appointed a Royal Borough at the Diamond Jubilee, 'in recognition of the historically close links forged between Greenwich and our Royal Family, from the Middle Ages to the present day'.

Northampton was nationally important in medieval times but most traces of the period were destroyed by the Great Fire of 1675.

The Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway originated during the 'Railway Mania' years of the mid-1840s, when ambitious landowners and industrialists conceived the idea of a main line link between London and the West Midlands industrial areas.

A Domesday Book settlement and a medieval borough, Kirkham was for centuries the focal point of the surrounding villages.

Exmoor is one of southern England's few remaining wild landscapes.

Changed by the 1950s, Norwich was to alter even more during the 1960s.

The Witney Railway was opened from Yarnton Junction to Witney in 1861.

The weary traveller passing through Middleton in days of old would have witnessed a more pastoral, idyllic scene that we can only imagine.

The city of Portsmouth has a long literary history.

Old Norwich: A Photographic Journey presents a number of old images, in both black and white and colour, depicting Norwich in a bygone era.

Taunton is the largest town in the county of Somerset and boasts a rich and fascinating history that can be archaeologically traced back to the Bronze and Iron Ages.

Ross-on-Wye sits high on a sandstone cliff overlooking a horseshoe bend in the beautiful River Wye.

Kirkcaldy, long known as the Lang Toun, is the biggest town in Fife.

It was in Hertfordshire, at Berkhamsted, that the English surrendered to William the Conqueror in 1066 - a turning point in the story of the kingdom.

Haverfordwest, the county town of Pembrokeshire, was founded around 900 years ago.

Pembroke, which gave its name to the present County of Pembrokeshire, is a medieval walled town complete with a magnificent castle dating back to the eleventh century.

The London suburbs of Teddington, Kingston & Twickenham are steeped in history and folklore.

Oxford originated in the tenth century, as one of the fortified 'burghs' built during the Viking wars.

The story behind the hit Netflix documentary: The bestselling account of the bond between brothers and the shocking legacy of a dangerous mother.

Se n O'Connor was born in Francis Street, in the Liberties of Dublin, a neighbourhood famous over the centuries for the sturdy independence of its people.

Nancy Jackman was born in 1907 in a remote Norfolk village.

Whether your taste was for fiddlestix or Flavour Ravers, Trigger bars or Two and Twos, Marathons or macaroons, Peggy's Legs or Push Pops, Liquorice Allsorts or Little Devils, You'll Ruin Your Dinner has something for you.

Situated on opposite sides of the Thames, the ancient districts of Southwark and Blackfriars have played a crucial role in London's political, social and religious activities throughout the centuries.

Now in ebook and paperback: David Nicholls's new novel You Are Here Sweet Sorrow: a novel of first love, set during a long, hot summer where life changes forever.

Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau AwardFlorida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida NonfictionDiscover Floridas unique places across time through writings from historyHow has Floridas land changed across five centuries?

A remarkable tale of greed, treachery and deceit in one of the most outlandish criminal stunts ever conceived: the theft of a nation In 1981, a small but heavily armed force of misfits from Canada and the United States set off on a preposterous mission: invade an impoverished Caribbean country, overthrow its government in a coup d'etat, install a puppet prime minister and transform the island into a crooks' paradise.

Britain's towns and cities are dominated by great public buildings that serve their communities in diverse ways.

Advocating a revised history of the eighteenth-century novel, Novel Cleopatras showcases the novel's origins in ancient mythology, its relation to epic narrative, and its connection to neoclassical print culture.

Advocating a revised history of the eighteenth-century novel, Novel Cleopatras showcases the novel's origins in ancient mythology, its relation to epic narrative, and its connection to neoclassical print culture.

Drawing on the extensive and underused body of legal records on marriage that exist in Europe’s ecclesiastical and secular archives, Marriage in Europe, 1400–1800 examines the institution not just as it was theorized by jurists and theologians, but as it was lived in reality.

Drawing on the extensive and underused body of legal records on marriage that exist in Europe’s ecclesiastical and secular archives, Marriage in Europe, 1400–1800 examines the institution not just as it was theorized by jurists and theologians, but as it was lived in reality.

A Violent History of Benevolence traces how normative histories of liberalism, progress, and social work enact and obscure systemic violences.

A Violent History of Benevolence traces how normative histories of liberalism, progress, and social work enact and obscure systemic violences.