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...

The idea of this book started many years ago with my love of nature, places and people. If I thin...

From humble beginnings on a farm in rural Worcestershire to covering worldwide news events. Over ...

Brick building came to the Midlands in the 15th century when its adoption reflected its prestige ...

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

This book marks the birth 300 years ago on 23rd May 1725 of Robert Bakewell, the agricultural inn...

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

The book consists of a series of 'Reflections' on the kingsnamed Henry who (with gaps) ruled Engl...

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...

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

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

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

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...

Knitted Swimming Trunks is an honest, painful, but ultimately hopeful portrayal of an ordinary bo...

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

Following on from Studley Through Time, Studley Scrapbook is another fascinating, pictorial revie...

The UK's energy problems are now centre stage. Growing up with Gas puts them in perspective with ...

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

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...

In this charming and quirky collection of short stories, poetry and holiday photographs, Wendy re...

Were we all created? Or did we evolve? If so, from what and how? The author does not pretend to k...

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

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

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...

Faire and Goodly Built is the fascinating and thoughtprovoking story of the collegiate church of ...

The Black Country has a wealth of pubs and breweries serving the local population of its many tow...

The letters of a young doctor who was sent to a remote hospital in Bangladesh in the years follow...

A U-boat disappears in the North Atlantic in October 1942 and mysteriously re-surfaces in 1988. G...

Set in Birmingham, Liverpool, Malvern and Worcestershire, 65 Brunswick Road - The Musical, by Shi...

A collection of poems celebrating nature, inspired by the wonderful Worcestershire countryside, w...

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

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

This is the story of the 157 men and women from the Birmingham Transport Department who died in t...

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...

Did you know...That Balsall Heath was once part of King's Norton Parish? That there was an open-a...

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

A Grammar School Girl is the sequel to Grace Caroline Holte's The Girl from Guildford Street, whi...

Birmingham Accident Hospital, fondly known as The Acci, was established to manage the victims of ...