A celebration of Southend-on-Sea's individual and often strange history - from eccentric characte...

From the cells of Death Row come the chillingtrue-life accounts of the most heinouscruel and depr...

'You won't be familiar with every one of the ... women featured in these pages, but all, familiar...

As much as 70 percent of Essex is agricultural, and given its proximity to the capital it's not s...

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The Little Book of The East End is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of fri...

Famous Essex Authors, that you have never heard, that will in fact heard of. There are literally ...

Athlete and TV presenter Sally Gunnell, painter Edward Bawden, actress Joan Sims, singer Billy Br...

The Secret History of Southend is filled with hundreds of little-known facts and historical anecd...

Here are Essex Girls in a different light to the stereotype of modern public expectation. Murdere...

Writing Female Smugglers of the Nineteenth Century has proved quite a challenge, but a fascinatin...

Based on quirky facts and fascinating data, with a discerning eye on the bizarre, the frivolous a...

The modern history of London's East End has been well-documented - but what of its ancient roots?...

This is NOT a guide book. This little book brings together past and present to offer a taste of S...

The popular seaside resort of Southend-on-Sea has long been a haven for tourists, but the town al...