North Staffordshire History

Regular newspaper coverage of events in the Potteries only really started at the end of the 18th century with the advent in 1795 of the Staf...

In the early 2000s I was contacted by Ernie Luck a collector and researcher of Mason's pottery who had been looking into a vague connect...

Thomas Cooper, the Chartist whose fiery speeches sparked the riots. In 1842, a prolonged miner's strike had crippled the Staffordshire P...

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...

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...

Napoleon Bonaparte Author's collection On 6 April 1814, with the last of his armies defeated and Allied forces fast closing on Paris, Na...

Balloonist Charles Green later in life. Charles Green was quite a celebrity when he arrived in the Potteries in early October 1826. A p...