In July 1824, Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley arrived in New York City at the end of a month-long voyage from Liverpool. The young MP and future 14th earl of Derby...
Blood, Sweat, and Esprit de Corps presents a comprehensive, meticulously researched history of 41 Squadron RAF, tracing its evolution from its re-formation in 1923 through the turbulent interwar years to...
Set against the background of Liverpool’s rapid development as a port, Restless Enterprise explores the achievements of the author’s three-times great-grandfather, Richard Lloyd, and his family. Aged fourteen, Richard arrived...
All over the Roman Empire the roads were laid out as a carefully planned system linking the centres of occupation, both military and civil, to every neighbouring centre, so as...
This evocative book looks back to the author’s four-and-a-half years of training on the London & North Eastern Railway. From childhood, railway employment had been his goal and he achieved...
