Local and Community History Month reading list

The month of May is Local and Community History Month across the UK.

The aim of this annual celebration is to increase awareness of local history, promote history in general to the local community to participate.

We’ve compiled the following list of titles which celebrate local and community history from around the UK, including plenty in our own local of Manchester.

Mancunians

Where do we start, where do I begin?

£11.99

As Good as a Marriage

The Anne Lister Diaries 1836-38

£18.99

Queer beyond London

LGBTQ stories from four English cities

£12.99

Manchester unspun

How a city got high on music

£12.99

The Simons of Manchester

How one family shaped a city and a nation

£20.00

Manchester minds

A university history of ideas

£25.00

Unburied

The true story of Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy

£25.00

The Strand

A biography

£25.00

Stories from small museums

£16.99

Round our way

Sam Hanna's visual legacy

£25.00

Odd men out

Male homosexuality in Britain from Wolfenden to Gay Liberation: Revised and updated edition

£13.99

British queer history

New approaches and perspectives

£19.99

Female Fortune

The Anne Lister Diaries, 1833-36: Land, gender and authority: New Edition

£20.00

Ford Madox Brown

The Manchester murals and the matter of history

£85.00

Leeds and its Jewish community

A history

£25.00

Culture in Manchester

Institutions and urban change since 1850

£30.00

Writing local history

£19.99

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