Moorlands Old Times

Some weeks ago I gave a talk to the Caverswall History Society on the old Poor Law which was in place until the changes in the 1830s ...

It is St George’s Day and it is also the 450 th birthday of Germany ’s National Poet. Before you think I am confused, Shakespeare for...

One of the pleasures of rooting around the William Salt Library is coming across an arcane article in the many volumes of deliberatio...

I came across a reference in a history of Catholicism in Staffordshire to a clandestine visit made by St Edmund Campion to Throwley H...

I can recall clearly that April day in 1989. I had gone for a run down the Manifold Valley. It was a beautiful sunny day and many had ...

  Today is the 100 th anniversary of the birth of Alec Guinness . In the spring a film commemorating his birth will be shown at th...

I was in conversation with two women from Tompkin near Bagnall and soon the subject of the skinned drummer boy came up.   The legend...