North Staffordshire History

Standing outside of the Brampton Museum in Newcastle-under-Lyme is a large black-painted cannon, mounted on a cast-iron limber. This wa...

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 ...

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...