North Staffordshire History

Stoke-on-Trent's best known connection with the Titanic disaster is of course the ship's venerable skipper, Captain E. J. Smith, ...

The memorial to the men lost in the disaster. At 7.50 am, on 1 January 1942,  a devastating explosion took place 800 yards below ground at...

Published in 1847 by Charles Knight, The Land We Live In , was ostensibly a travel guide written for those adventurous souls who wished to ...

Burslem town centre in the early 19th century. The oldest profession in the world had its place in soft underbelly of the Regency Potte...

Elijah Fenton Elijah Fenton, poet, biographer and translator, was born at Shelton on 25 May 1683. His father John Fenton, an attorney a...

One of the least known literary associations with Staffordshire, is that of Charles Kingsley's novel Alton Locke. Tailor and Poet , ...

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...