Local and family history, nostalgia

In New England today there are megalithic stones, stone chambers and structures, carvings and petroglyphs, even an unidentified skeleton in armor that defy easy explanation.

When Geronimo and his warriors surrendered to the US Army, General Miles made a number of promises for the surrender terms that were in fact false.

Make your comfort food dreams come true with Comfy, the essential cookbook for simple, indulgent and joyful dinners to make your heart sing.

Discover London like never before with The London Year, your month-by-month guide to 200 of the city's most exciting, unusual and unforgettable events.

Over 70 delicious and hassle-free meals that you can cook in a single roasting tray or pot.

When John Montagu, the fourth Duke of Sandwich, got the brilliant idea of putting slices of cold meat between two pieces of bread, he not only invented the first, really modern meal - he created a global obsession.

Following on in the same vain of The Joy of Sheds, The Joy of Pubs is an intoxicating publication detailing everything and anything you want to know about pubs.

A hilarious gift book to help Remainers cope in the run-up to the fateful Brexit moment.

Spokane, Washington's first female physician, Mary Archard Latham moved to the community with her three sonsleaving her husband behind in Ohioin 1888.

Spokane, Washington's first female physician, Mary Archard Latham moved to the community with her three sonsleaving her husband behind in Ohioin 1888.

Youth culture is not an invention of twentieth-century movies and television; youth have been forming their own cultures from the moment they were given space to invent their own ways of relating to one another and to their parents and communities.

The black migration to San Francisco and the Bay Area differed from the mass movement of Southern rural blacks and their families into the eastern industrial cities.

Since their introduction in the 1950s, the Class 08, the most common type of British Rail shunter, has been found in almost every area of the UK.

The county of Carmarthenshire has an impressive military history and heritage which stretches back into the Iron Age.

The historic county of Yorkshire is the largest in England, home to 157 Grade I listed churches.

Nassim Rajwan recalls the Jewish community he missed in Baghdad, which he grew up in from the 1920s until 1951 when he left Iraq.

The cathedral city of Truro is a major administrative and commercial centre in Cornwall.

Haverfordwest is the county town of Pembrokeshire.

'From the moment that these waters were given back their beavers, I knew that I would never wish to return to the time when they were without them .

A comprehensive record of the achievements of scholars contemporary to the thinker Muhammad Kurd Ali, accompanied by their illustrious academic biographies.

Since 1945 the world has changed at breakneck speed, and life in post-war Scotland is now entirely different from what it was like when Alistair Moffat grew up in the quiet Border town of Kelso in the 1950s.

When the features of Iranian civilization became clear and expanded politically to control most of the Near East, after the fall of Babylon and the fall of the great Near Eastern civilizations, Iran took over and ensured continued communication with the ancient and early medieval West (Greece, Rome, and Byzantium), and the Far East with its two great orbits, China and India.

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Evesham grew up within a bend of the River Avon around its famous abbey, one of the largest in the country, and although the abbey was destroyed in the sixteenth century, the town remained one of the most important settlements in Worcestershire.

The Berkshire town of Wokingham has over 1,000 years of history, and this history is interwoven with the bigger story of England.

Set in the heart of England, the undulating county of Warwickshire is famous as the birthplace of William Shakespeare.

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

The history of Greenwich is inseparable from its maritime history and royal palace.

A portrait of old-fashioned life in the English countryside, with profiles of a beekeeper, a farrier, a master thatcher, and more.

The landscape, buildings and people of Kent have provided inspiration for writers for centuries.

A look at 100 inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture.

Lincolnshire is a county of contrasts, ranging from the seaside resorts on the east coast to the rolling chalk hills of the Lincolnshire Wolds and the fenland area of the south-east.

London has been transformed in the last two or three decades since the 1990s.

The River Lea and its crossing at Hertford lie at the heart of the town's history.

Youth culture is not an invention of twentieth-century movies and television; youth have been forming their own cultures from the moment they were given space to invent their own ways of relating to one another and to their parents and communities.

Over the last two decades, the political narrative of the liberal coasts and the conservative heartland has become something of a truism, leading many Democrats to write off much of the Midwest as a Republican stronghold.

Charlotte-based NationsBank, formerly named NCNB, became one of the nation's leading financial powers following its acquisition in 1988 of First Republic Bank of Texas and its merger in 1991 with Atlanta-based C&S/Sovran.

Since its original publication in 1975, The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century has become an important teaching tool and research volume.

Das Salzkammergut – geheimnisvoll und wunderschönDie Idylle blitzblauer Seen, majestätischer Gipfel und zuckersüßer Operettenmelodien in Kombination mit einer sagendurchwirkten Geschichte – so kennt die Welt das Salzkammergut im Herzen Österreichs.

The Phoenix Park in Dublin holds a special place in the collective memory of Irish people.

The Instant Top 5 Irish Times BestsellerFrom the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish history through the lens of murder.

Connects river sciences to queer and trans theory through collaborative restoration workRivers host vibrant multispecies communities in their waters and along their banks, and, according to queer-trans-feminist river scientist Cleo Wlfle Hazard, their future vitality requires centering the values of justice, sovereignty, and dynamism.

Desert Dreams chronicles seventy-five years of Mexican American efforts to attain educational equality in Arizona, from its territorial period in the nineteenth century to the post-World War II era.

Dorset's county town of Dorchester is famous for its association with the writer Thomas Hardy but its history contains much more that has often been overlooked.

Gloucester's history stretches back almost 2,000 years to its foundation by the Romans.

The wonderful town of Bury St Edmunds is indelibly linked to the first patron saint of England, St Edmund, who was martyred in AD 869 and would eventually be enshrined in his magnificent abbey church, alas now in ruins.

Peterborough grew up around its cathedral, originally founded as an Anglo-Saxon monastery, but it was only in the nineteenth century that this city on the edge of the Fens started to grow to its present size as one of the largest cities in the east of England.

The paranormal history of Buckinghamshire is brought vividly to life in this, the first dedicated guide to the haunted and uncanny sites of this most beautiful, yet mysterious of home counties.

The sixties, seventies and eighties were decades of great change.

The borough of Newham in East London was largely built up from the 1800s onwards.