North Staffordshire History

British Mounted Infantry and Zulus at the Battle of Gingindlovu Newspaper accounts of the local soldiers involved in the battle of Isandlwan...

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...

For the soldiers, the end of the fighting in the Crimean War, came with the fall of the Russian port of Sebastopol on 5th September 1855. T...

The Battle of Isandhlwana by Charles Edwin Fripp On 22 January 1879, a British force of over 1,300 men, mostly from t...