North Staffordshire History

Richard Caton Woodville's famous painting of the Charge of the Light Brigade. Lord Cardigan on the far left of picture is dressed as the...

The stone commemorating the first meeting at Mow Cop with the 'castle' in the background Situated smack on the Staffordshire-Cheshir...

A Royal Marine private in 1815 Source: Wikimedia Commons In the pages of M. H. Miller’s interesting compilation, Leek: Fifty Years Ago , ca...

Lance-Sergeant J. D. Baskeyfield VC Operation Market Garden, launched on 17 September 1944, was an Allied attempt to seize a series of strat...

An appalling family tragedy occurred in Hanley on Saturday 1 August 1807, when Robert, John and James Wilson, three sons of David Wilson, a ...

The Rough Fleet, an amorphous gang of street thugs under the leadership of John ‘Mad Jack’ Wilson were a terror to the locals, notably in an...

Of all the famous names who have hailed from the Potteries, few in their lifetime gave more honest, unalloyed pleasure than Gertrude Astbury...