North Staffordshire History

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...

Colin Melbourne's statue of R. J. Mitchell outside the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Hanley. In 1911, long before he went on to desi...

A panoramic view of the Isandlwana battlefield. The British camp was situated in the middle of the picture. The Zulu attack came over t...

Mow Cop Castle from the Staffordshire side. To the north of Stoke-on-Trent and standing smack on the Staffordshire-Cheshire Border, the...

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 ...

During the First World War, the action for the most part took place along a line of trenches stretching from the. Belgian coast, down to th...