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

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

Proper Brummie

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...

No satisfactory explanation was given for the burial of a large Saxon gold hoard found in Staffor...

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...

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

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...

Cars, that we now know have ceased to be manufactured, travelling along our highways. Factories, ...

BEATLE haircut, one set of smart clothes to his name... and with a rock 'n' roll attitude hewn ou...

Not Great Hopes is a personal account of episodes from the author's childhood and a vivid evocati...

No.13 Herbert Road is an engaging autobiographical account of a young boy growing up in the back ...

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

Maxwell Armfield and Constance Smedley were an unorthodox couple who deserve more attention. Both...

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 1951 a two year old infant Sheila Jones was diagnosed at Birmingham Children's Hospital (BCH) ...

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...

Born in 1943, Richard Pottinger grew up in and around the small rural villages near Cirencester, ...

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...

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

In 1813 George Walton joined the Rifle Brigade at a recruiting party outside St Philip's Church i...

A book about Leamington's history that documents the history of its pubs. With more than 220 entr...

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

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...

In Down to Earth, Nancy Cooper gives us a glimpse into the real life of a seventeen year old youn...

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...

It is a grey Saturday morning in August, 1921, and the leaden skies of Birmingham rain down upon ...

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

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...

Jim Simpson of Big Bear Records has been involved in the music business for nearly 60 years, as m...

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...