North Staffordshire History

Tales from the Potteries, Newcastle and the Staffordshire Moorlands

01 May 2022

The Man Who Missed Isandlwana

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British Mounted Infantry and Zulus at the Battle of Gingindlovu Newspaper accounts of the local soldiers involved in the battle of Isandlwan...
28 February 2022

In Glorious Biocolour

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In the early to mid 1920s, a pioneering film maker Claude Friese-Greene and his assistant, drove a car from Land's End to John O'Gr...
03 July 2021

Anarchy in Etruria

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In early March 1783, the local economy was in decline and people were going hungry. A poor harvest the year before plus the knock-on economi...
08 June 2021

The Great Storm of 1872

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B eing situated in such a hilly region, widespread flooding is a rarity in Stoke-on-Trent, but occasionally chance extremes of weather have ...
11 April 2021

Ken Ray's Soldiers: Private Philip Yates

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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 t...
07 February 2021

Old News from the Potteries

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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...
02 February 2021

Elizabeth Smith and the Mason Connection

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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...
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