Features an in-depth study of a small English borough, market and port town. This title is based ...

Five Pounds For 'A Room Of One's Own' describes how, aged 20, Sarah Hosking resolved one day to g...

Stylish and dark, the BBC series the 'Peaky Blinders' is set in the backstreets of Birmingham aft...

An essential toolkit for potty training that is aimed at both parents and children. It offers par...

The police boxes have an interesting history. The 'hey days' for the police box were the years be...

If in doubt fall on your arse. That was the mantra of Fred Karno: acrobat, comedian, writer, musi...

The fifties was the decade that saw Birmingham getting back to its feet, shaking off the dust and...

This first and ground-breaking biography of Arthur Jefferson, the father of Stan Laurel (the mast...

Over ninety public houses and hotels are featured in this book. There is a brief overview of each...

Birmingham would definitely not be the place that it is today, without Eddie Fewtrell. Born one o...

During its history the Herefordshire market town had been no stranger to invasions from across th...

Birmingham's streets, roads and lanes are an absorbing aspect of our history. They call out to us...

It is a thrill to have written a local history book in conjunction with the Express and Star. The...

Here is a selection of paintings by artist Robert Geoghegan about his home city of Birmingham whe...

Reflecting Birmingham in the 1940s and 1950s, this work tells of the games played then in the str...

Charlie Hall was born into a working class family in 1899. In 1920 he left England to start a new...

During the Second World War Birmingham suffered 365 air raid alerts and 77 actual air raids. Thes...

Over 80 ex-employees and their descendants give perceptive and often humorous accounts of life in...

The Girl from Guildford Street describes a working class childhood, growing up in Lozells, Birmin...

Beaten Paths are Safest - was the motto of The Reconnaissance Regiment. This book tells the story...

When Alex's bowling hits a rough patch, his sister tells him he needs to be more aggressive. Alex...

Proud to Serve chronicles the journey of one police officer between 1999 and 2004 as he worked wi...

Robert Owen was a charismatic pipe-dreamer, bound to unrealistic expectations. Though born in New...

George and Leila find life very different when Middlesbrough goes into Covid-19 lockdown. They mi...

This title tells the story of the U.S. Replacement Depot at Pheasey Farms Estate in Great Barr, B...

Keep 'em rollin', keep 'em shootin', keep 'em supplied was the motto of the U.S. Supply depot G-2...

Lizzie Baty, the Brampton Witch (1729-1817), lived close to the village of Brampton in Cumbria an...

The Worcester and Birmingham Canal when it was authorised by Act of Parliament, to 1815 when it w...

At the end of the 2016 Speedway season, the Coventry Bees Speedway team ceased racing due to thei...

This first novel by Emilia Williams is a sweeping family saga of life in the working class commun...

With full access to the Bournville archives, Dr. Chinn has traced the history of this distinguish...

During its eighty years under London's legendary Oxford Street everyone from Louis Armstrong to r...

This book relates the history of Rotton Park Lodge and the surrounding area of Birmingham. Marger...

This is Anne Bradford's ninth collection of true ghost stories from the Worcestershire area, she ...

Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) was a globally important industrialist who introduced innovative mint...

There have been many books about Birmingham's history but this one is different. It is based on t...

Pat Roach - the 'Gentle Giant' battled with cancer for six-and-a-half years, before it eventually...

Alex loves cricket! When Chance to Shine coaches come into school, Alex hopes his friends will di...

A mischievous ghost lurks in the Palace Theatre, Redditch; the Technical Manager has seen it thre...

This book, compiled by a former employee, is a look back at the history of Fort Dunlop through th...

Birmingham's Got Talent! Well, there can't be any question about that - a shopping centre that ha...

Deep in the beautiful Worcestershire countryside lie a number of secret places that played a spec...

U.S. Army Hospital Center 804' tells the story of five U.S. Army hospitals located on the Shropsh...

Clemence was a younger sister of A.E. Housman, classicist and poet. When, aged 22, she left her c...

Desperate, exhausted after the Battle of Worcester and hunted by Cromwell's troops, King Charles ...

The definition of slang according to the Oxford Dictionary is'a type of language consisting of wo...

Gill Mansell (nee Hewitt) was born in 1949 and brought up in the Lozells area of Birmingham, her ...

Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck were drawn to each other the moment they met, but there were obst...