North Staffordshire History
Tales from the Potteries, Newcastle and the Staffordshire Moorlands
14 January 2021
The Battle of Burslem
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Thomas Cooper, the Chartist whose fiery speeches sparked the riots. In 1842, a prolonged miner's strike had crippled the Staffordshire P...
11 January 2021
Reg Mitchell Takes the Proverbial
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Colin Melbourne's statue of R. J. Mitchell outside the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Hanley. In 1911, long before he went on to desi...
16 November 2020
A Disposition to Riot
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Between 1799 and 1801 food riots, brought on by scarcity and high prices which in turn had been caused by poor harvests and the effects of N...
27 September 2020
Peace Celebrations 1814
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Napoleon Bonaparte Author's collection On 6 April 1814, with the last of his armies defeated and Allied forces fast closing on Paris, Na...
30 August 2020
Up, Up and Away
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Balloonist Charles Green later in life. Charles Green was quite a celebrity when he arrived in the Potteries in early October 1826. A p...
13 June 2020
Ken Ray's Soldiers: Private William Walker
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Ken Ray, a long-time researcher into the lives of local soldiers has assembled an impressive list of North Staffordshire men who served in ...
17 April 2020
Ken Ray's Soldiers: Gunner Aaron Wedgwood
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Ken Ray, a long-time researcher into the lives of local soldiers has assembled an impressive list of North Staffordshire men who served in...
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