Even if it had come from a big-time rock and roll promoter with an established track record in promoting world-class events it would still have been an audacious request. Coming from the 23-year old proprietor of a small printing business...

The photographs in this book were taken in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The period became known by rail enthusiasts as BR Blue – because all the locomotives were painted blue. The era was characterised by institutionalised thrift, standardisation...

The past is chaotic and complex. History aims to create coherent narratives to make meaning. What to do with those bits of the past that don’t readily fit into a history? How about a book like an ‘A-Z’? Evesham, like...

The most impressive still-standing structure along the route of the Stanhope & Tyne is the Hownes Gill viaduct, which opened in 1858 and is now a Grade II listed structure. The viaduct was not built until twenty-four years after the...

The skyline south of Wakefield is dominated by ruined castle at Sandal. It was built by some of the greatest soldiers of the Middle Ages, the Warenne family. The town of Varenne near Dieppe, in North-East Normandy was the ‘home...

NEW TRADE ROUTES After the fall of the Roman Empire trade in Europe declined, roads fell into disrepair and commerce was centred on small towns and local markets; but by the eleventh century new routes were opening up. Most trade...

You would think that the historic town of Bury St Edmunds with the ruins of one of the largest Benedictine abbeys in this country would be honeycombed with tunnels relating to it. Well, as far is known there are none...

In the summer of 1798, a French fleet carrying an army of 33,000 arrived off the coast of Egypt. The curious soldiers peered out from their ships at lone and level sands stretching away. There was nothing to be seen...

This book celebrates an eclectic mix of women who have contributed significantly to the world of computing over three centuries – from Nicole-Reine Lepaute, born in 1723, to the youngest of the women chosen, Joy Buolamwini, born in 1989. It...

This is my first book, a COVID lock down project of sorts to provide a distraction from my full-time job as a senior manager in the NHS, involved in urgent and emergency care for over 30 years. Northern European Emergency...