North Staffordshire History

The Carboniferous landscape The geological history of Stoke-on-Trent began over 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period of th...

When he paid a visit to the Potteries in the summer of 1874, journalist James Greenwood noted that Hanley was a town full of dogs: ...

For the soldiers, the end of the fighting in the Crimean War, came with the fall of the Russian port of Sebastopol on 5th September 1855. T...

On 9 July 1908, the Longton Park Fête was in full swing and as well as the numerous stalls, funfair rides and other amusements put on to ...

The Trenton basketball team 1896-97. Fred Cooper is bottom left with the ball, his friend Al Bratton is bottom right. In 1896, Frederi...

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...