Collection: Local Studies-Reference

Shedding light on the history of motoring in the northwest of England at the turn of the century, 'The Cheshire Motor Vehicle Registrations, 1908-11', edited by Craig Horner, publishes one of the very few documentary sources available for the study of car ownership before the First World War. In ...

Bel's joined the Manchester office of a big national paper from her award-winning podcast. There are three of them - Bel, her relentlessly ambitious colleague Aaron, and a new intern. And when the intern turns out to be a 30-something man called Connor, he and Bel get off on totally the wrong foo...

Eva's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Eva appears in some of the photographs that are the only visual evidence of the mass murder at Auschwitz. After the war, she moved to Man...

A selection of poems by Henry Normal, the founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival.

Manchester, 1940: The minute war was declared, best friends Sally and Deborah volunteered for the home guard, willing to do anything to help their boys fighting overseas. An Auxiliary Fire Service girl by night, Sally ends up stationed at the salvage depot by day. Working amidst the scrap metal a...

England, 1940s. Minnie has spent most of her life feeling like a plain Jane, watching things happen around her, waiting for something - just something - to happen to her. When her old best friend, the beautiful and callous Junie, unexpectedly returns to Sixteen Streets, Minnie's not quite sure ho...