North Staffordshire History

On 1 April 1852, the writer Charles Dickens wrote a letter to his wife Kate informing her ‘We think of going on tonight from Birmingham to S...

According to the tale told, in the 19th century the Etruria Grove, a copse planted on the orders of Josiah Wedgwood near to his factory alon...

In late August 1908, the Sentinel and numerous other papers up and down the country carried the story that an engineer, Mr A. T. Richenson....

Norman Saunder's illustration  showing the Time Traveller  rescuing Weena from the Morlocks in The Time Machine . (Wikimedia Commons) I ...

At about 10.10pm on the night of 28 May 1837 in Lane Delph, Fenton, on hearing a cry of ‘Murder’, a man in a nearby house and two customers ...

A portrait of R. R. Angerstein in 1755. Source: Wikimedia Commons A visitor to the mid-18th century Potteries was Reinhold R ü cker Angerste...

Between 1697 and 1702, partly from a wish to improve her health and from an equally strong desire to see more of her native land, Lady Celia...