Steve Brown looks at an ancient custom that lives on in only one village in…
Tag: derbyshire history
It is sixty years ago this month that Derbyshire witnessed one of the most selfless…
Part two of Rosy Thacker’s fascinating account of how Matlock’s hydros proved a mecca for…
Links between the Devonshires and American families goes back further than many realise, as Deborah Barham…
Matlock was a mecca for professional footballers more than a century ago, as local author…
Peter Fidler did more to ‘map’ the Canadian wilderness than anyone else – but it…
Alex Ledger looks at how one bonfire night in Derbyshire was replaced by another ‘glorious’…
It’s St Crispin’s Day this month… and Alex Ledger looks at the fascinating ‘Crispin’ history…
One hundred years ago, the Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Hospital was in serious financial debt,…
A former boarding school in the Derbyshire Dales was home to one of the nation’s…