Moorlands Old Times

It reminded me of the scene in the film “ Whistle down the wind” when the escaped prisoner is found by the children in a remote barn in ...

Today only fragments of the great forests that surrounded the Staffordshire Moorlands during the Middle Ages remain.  The Peak Forest ...

I came across a report from 1933 of the opening of the gateway at Hawksmoor nature reserve( near Cheadle) by the Poet Laureate to a kin...

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...