‘I know what I heard and saw’. It is 1650 and something is very wrong in your house. Pots and pans are flying through the air. Invisible hands are pelting your family with stones. Doors slam shut on t...

Compton Chamberlayne's social history over four centuries, recounted through the forgotten stories of over twenty families who lived there for different periods, presents an authentic example of bygon...

This book presents in alphabetical order brief but meticulously researched illustrated histories of 120 inns and other drinking establishments, past and present, in the seaside and naval Dorset town o...

This book presents in alphabetical order brief but meticulously researched illustrated histories of 120 inns and other drinking establishments, past and present, in the seaside and naval Dorset town o...

Through riots and revelries, poverty and prosperity, the people of Langley Burrell and neighbouring Kellaways in north Wiltshire have adapted to centuries of change. In this thematic history of the pa...

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‘I know what I heard and saw’. It is 1650 and something is very wrong in your house. Pots and pans are flying through the air. Invisible hands are pelting your family with stones. Doors slam shut on t...

Basingstoke is frequently seen as a modern town, the product of the last decades of the 20th century. In reality it has a long, rich and prosperous history dating from the medieval period. This study ...

Chippenham on this Day contains 366 days of events from the history of Chippenham in north Wiltshire. As you work through the calendar you will discover a wide range of subjects: tragedies, celebratio...

Wansdyke is one of the great linear, bank-and-ditch earthworks of England. From end to end it stretches 35 miles across Somerset and Wiltshire. Only the Devil’s Dyke, near Newmarket, is higher. Archae...

The costs of the pleasures of visiting Bath in the Georgian period were not only the price of tickets to the balls, of tips for the Sedan chairmen and many other expenses, but also the external costs ...

A small market town in rural Wiltshire became a leading centre for manufacturing in the century after 1840. This is Swindon, a creation of the Great Western Railway which built its trains there. Behin...

Revd. Gilbert White published his revolutionary Natural History of Selborne in 1789, an entirely new insight into the natural world. John Knapp was the first to follow White's successful format, publi...

A small market town in rural Wiltshire became a leading centre for manufacturing in the century after 1840. This is Swindon, a creation of the Great Western Railway which built its trains there. Behin...

Travelling for pleasure in the 1670s required plenty of stamina. John Walker, a well-to-do country gentleman in his early thirties, rode many miles on horseback through England, Wales and Scotland, an...

Step back in time to learn more about Jane Austen, who is considered a pioneer in fiction, breaking new ground in subject and style.

Travelling for pleasure in the 1670s required plenty of stamina. John Walker, a well-to-do country gentleman in his early thirties, rode many miles on horseback through England, Wales and Scotland, an...

Jane Austen’s writings often reflect on the influence of mothers, of parental failings and the dynamics of family relationships. This book reflects the potential influence of her Southampton networks ...

The church of the Holy Trinity in the small Cotswold town of Minchinhampton traces its origins back to Domesday. The medieval church was largely demolished and rebuilt in the 1840s but the church’s so...

Kenneth Rogers (1930-2025), archivist and historian, pursued a lifelong interest in the West Country textile industry, in which his forebears had been engaged for many generations. A native of Trowbri...

John Billingsley of Ashwick Grove in the Somerset Mendips of south-west England - agricultural pioneer and 'improver'. His story gives a unique insight into eighteenth-century rural life in the west c...

In Avebury the prehistoric stone circle, together with the manor house, receive most of the attention. But what about the history of the ordinary people of the parish? Their story is just as interesti...