Lokalhistorie

Explore the rich history of Chelsea in West London in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.

An ethnographic study based on decades of field research, Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain explores five sacred journeys to the peaks of venerated mountains undertaken by Nahua people living in northern Veracruz, Mexico.

America's Switzerland, a companion volume to This Blue Hollow, is the first comprehensive history of Rocky Mountain National Park and its neighboring town, Estes Park, during the decades when travel became a middle-class rite of summer.

The Clearances are well known as one of the darkest periods of Highland history. Over a hundred-year period somewhere in the region of 150,000 people evicted from the land they had worked for generations; many were forced to start new lives overseas. The human cost was enormous, but there were huge consequences for the Highland economy too as the land was put to different uses.This book details the Clearances as they affected the island of Mull - the Hebridean hub for the emigrant ships which left for the New World. Peter Macnab discusses the influences which changed crofting in the 18th and 19th centuries, the triggers for migration, the crofter protests, the Napier Commission of 1883 and the introduction of various laws to provide security of tenure.Having been brought up in what likely was the last poorhouse in the Hebrides, where his father was governor, Peter Macnab was able to hear directly the stories and about the cruelties suffered. This makes his book a uniquely fascinating perspective on a complex and significant period of Scottish history.

This is Glasgow journalist Cliff Hanley's sparkling, unsentimental and uproariously funny account of growing up in the Gallowgate and then Shettleston in the 1920s and 1930s and his working life as a radio broadcaster and journalist in the 1940s and 1950s. One of the great Glasgow classics, first published in 1957, back in print after many years.

In Conservative Americanism, the author traces Conservative Americanist ideology between 1854 to 1861 and argues that Border Southerners who joined the American or Know Nothing Party were nativists who believed that foreigners and foreign ideas threatened the institution of slavery and the stability of the Union.

Why did Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even less about those who controlled their history? Is the historical narrative the only legitimate medium through which the past can be made known? Are novelists and historians as far apart as convention has it? In an age when history grounds any claims to national status, these are important questions and they have implications for how Scottish history has evolved, and how Scottish identity has been understood up to the present day.Scottish history is not simply the distillation of Scotland's past: authors shape what we know and how we judge our forebears. This book investigates who decided which Scottish voices of the past would be heard in history's pages and which would ultimately be silenced. It sketches a picture of a narrow and privileged cultural elite that responded belatedly to a more democratic age and only slowly embraced women writers and the interests of 'average' Scots. Integrating historical fiction and popular histories in its appreciation of the Scottish historical imaginary, it most importantly tells the story of why, despite the interests of politicians and others, a truly British history has never emerged.

Året var 1987.  I all fortrolighet leverte Håkon Norås et håndskrevet, innpakket manuskript til daværende rektor. Siden har pakken ligget gjemt i skolens safe, med påskriften «åpnes ikke før 1. januar 2023». Nå har det hemmelige manuset blitt bok, klart for skolens 200-årsjubileum, akkurat slik forfatteren ønsket.I Kongsgård-minner fra svunne år får leseren et unikt innblikk i livet på skolen, og ikke minst om menneskene som har befolket den. Her er en rekke originale, artige og tidvis spisse portretter. Og opp fra samlingen av Norås’ tekster stiger en større fortelling: om hvordan læreryrket, skikkene og tiden har endret seg.Dette er den tidligere lektorens gave til gamle og nye lærere og elever ved Kongsgård skole og uunnværlig lesning for alle som har et forhold til «Stavangers viktigste institusjon».]]>

London: A City in Pictures is a visual memento and celebration of the city's unique character and rich mix of diverse cultures.

Join Alistair Moffat in this concise and colourful account of Edinburgh, one of the UK's top tourist destinations with 4 million visitors annually. This book is published to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the Founding of the City of Edinburgh.

This is a brilliant, eclectic and colourful celebration of the history of Edinburgh through the eyes of those who witnessed it. Not simply a book about the great and good, the famous and infamous; there is testimony from ordinary folk who may not have made their mark on history but who have contributed to Edinburgh's ever-expanding tapestry.

When the last inhabitants of St Kilda were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at 'the edge of the world' lost its permanent population after five millennia. This book tells the absorbing and eventful story of St Kilda from up to the evacuation and its aftermath, using previously untapped sources to provide fresh insights, and tell the true story.

How the Industrial Revolution was born in Shropshire and the important role played by key people in Shropshire to develop large-scale iron smelting using coke and produce the first iron engines, boats, railways and bridges.

A pictorial history of Glasgow Harbour - the greatest port in Scotland and one of the largest in Britain - from its beginnings to the present day.

An accessible history of Lincoln from prehistory to the present day highlighting the city's significant events and people

Explore the historic city of Cork in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.

A fabulous collection of ghostly hauntings in the Black Country. These tales of haunted places, supernatural happenings and weird phenomena will delight the ghost hunters.

The beautiful county of Devon is one of the most popular of English counties. Here is a collection of strange tales and local legends from the county.

A fascinating portrait of Middlesbrough presented through a remarkable collection of historical postcards.

A stunning collection of photographs showcasing the diversity, beauty and history of Wales from a bird's-eye perspective.

A stunning collection of images celebrating the face of the city of Liverpool today, capturing what makes this city special.