Category: British Local History

A Lord Lieutenant in Wartime

A Lord Lieutenant in Wartime

The Lord Lieutenant of Devonshire, the fourth Earl Fortescue, kept detailed diaries during the First World War. These diaries provide a unique perspective of important events during this time, for… READ MORE

The Making of Victorian Bristol

The Making of Victorian Bristol

Professor Peter Malpass has spent a great part of his life in Bristol and so it comes as no surprise that this is the area that he decided to focus… READ MORE

Lord Liverpool

Lord Liverpool

20 April sees the publication of Lord Liverpool: A Political Life, by William Anthony Hay (Associate Professor of history at Mississippi State University). If you are wondering who he was,… READ MORE

Top 5 London Books

Top 5 London Books

London, dizzy London. Or as my very Marxist friend calls it, the City of Engels. Busy, grubby and unfriendly it may be, but what history, what architecture, what opportunity it… READ MORE

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