North Staffordshire History

Mow Cop Castle from the Staffordshire side. To the north of Stoke-on-Trent and standing smack on the Staffordshire-Cheshire Border, the...

By the late 1700s, slavery, most notably the trade in African slaves, was being increasingly seen by many in Britain as a great mora...

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 ...