North Staffordshire History

The sinking of the Lusitania by marine artist Norman Wilkinson Source: Wikimedia Commons On 7 May 1915, the Cunard liner Lusitania , en rout...

An appalling family tragedy occurred in Hanley on Saturday 1 August 1807, when Robert, John and James Wilson, three sons of David Wilson, a ...

The Rough Fleet, an amorphous gang of street thugs under the leadership of John ‘Mad Jack’ Wilson were a terror to the locals, notably in an...

Between 1697 and 1702, partly from a wish to improve her health and from an equally strong desire to see more of her native land, Lady Celia...

In the early to mid 1920s, a pioneering film maker Claude Friese-Greene and his assistant, drove a car from Land's End to John O'Gr...

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...

In the early 2000s I was contacted by Ernie Luck a collector and researcher of Mason's pottery who had been looking into a vague connect...

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

Bill Cooper (third from left) in his early days as a Ted. 'When I was 14 and still living in Nelson Place with my sister Mi...

'The first time we went to Manchester was after we’d talked with a bloke named Danny. I remember him saying he’d been in Manchester o...