North Staffordshire History

A panoramic view of the Isandlwana battlefield. The British camp was situated in the middle of the picture. The Zulu attack came over t...

Bill Cooper (third from left) in his early days as a Ted. 'When I was 14 and still living in Nelson Place with my sister Mi...

'The first time we went to Manchester was after we’d talked with a bloke named Danny. I remember him saying he’d been in Manchester o...

Despite all the dancing there was still plenty of time for drinking. 'We'd dance all night. That was the one thing we wanted ...

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...