Life was hard – and very dangerous – in Chesterfield’s infamous Yards in the 19th…
Tag: local history
Steve Brown looks at an ancient custom that lives on in only one village in…
It is sixty years ago this month that Derbyshire witnessed one of the most selfless…
Leonie Martin reviews Wirksworth, a History – a new and fascinating book about this ancient…
One hundred years ago this month, Australia mourned the death of one of its greatest…
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…
Alex Ledger looks at how one bonfire night in Derbyshire was replaced by another ‘glorious’…
Peter Fidler did more to ‘map’ the Canadian wilderness than anyone else – but it…