North Staffordshire History

According to the tale told, in the 19th century the Etruria Grove, a copse planted on the orders of Josiah Wedgwood near to his factory alon...

Norman Saunder's illustration  showing the Time Traveller  rescuing Weena from the Morlocks in The Time Machine . (Wikimedia Commons) I ...

Buffalo Bill and some of the Red Indians in 1890 Source: Wikimedia Commons On 17 August 1891, former hunter and US army scout turned impresa...

In early March 1783, the local economy was in decline and people were going hungry. A poor harvest the year before plus the knock-on economi...

B eing situated in such a hilly region, widespread flooding is a rarity in Stoke-on-Trent, but occasionally chance extremes of weather have ...

Regular newspaper coverage of events in the Potteries only really started at the end of the 18th century with the advent in 1795 of the Staf...

Napoleon Bonaparte Author's collection On 6 April 1814, with the last of his armies defeated and Allied forces fast closing on Paris, Na...

By the late 1700s, slavery, most notably the trade in African slaves, was being increasingly seen by many in Britain as a great mora...

Railways, or at least horse-drawn or gravity drawn railroads, running to or from canal wharfs, had been employed on a small scale by local ...