The history of humans in the Frome area stretches right back to Palaeolithic times and Frome first appears as a settlement as early as the Saxon period. ...

A Higher Reality, by John Chandler tells the story of England’s largest and (arguably) most important nunnery, and of the town that grew up alongside ...

Social history of an area in Wiltshire and Hampshire (southern England) bordering the New Forest, 1837-1914.

This book blends biography with military and social history. But it is also a tribute, driven by gratitude. If the story had ended differently the author ...

Full length biography and study of influential English poet and Wiltshire clergyman, setting him in his literary context, and among his circle of friends ...

As the bombs start to fall over southern England the Mason family try on their gas-masks and take to the air-raid shelter. Wartime life in Salisbury becomes ...

This is a detailed history of the union workhouse in Devizes, Wiltshire, and its subsequent history as St James's hospital, with details of buildings ...

West Swindon is a series of linked suburban centres planned and built from the 1980s to the west of the Wiltshire former railway town. But its story stretches ...