North Staffordshire History

French cuirassiers charge a British square at Waterloo, painting by Felix Philippoteaux. Source: Wikimedia Commons After three days of fight...

Richard Caton Woodville's famous painting of the Charge of the Light Brigade. Lord Cardigan on the far left of picture is dressed as the...

Lance-Sergeant J. D. Baskeyfield VC Operation Market Garden, launched on 17 September 1944, was an Allied attempt to seize a series of strat...

On 26 January 1895, 27 year old George Stevenson, a habitual petty criminal and deserter from the British army was shot and mortally wounded...

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

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...

Ken Ray, a long-time researcher into the lives of local soldiers has assembled an impressive list of North Staffordshire men who served in t...

Thomas Cooper, the Chartist whose fiery speeches sparked the riots. In 1842, a prolonged miner's strike had crippled the Staffordshire P...