A solitary reference in correspondence from the Victorian age informs us of ‘The Chester Book Club, 1824’ and a single meeting that took place that year. It contains names and cryptic allusions to members and to reading matter. This book, and the in-depth research that sits behind it, seeks to establish who these forgotten people ... <a title="The Chester Book Club, 1824" class="read-more" href="https://heritagehunter.co.uk/books/the-chester-book-club-1824/" aria-label="Read more about The Chester Book Club, 1824">Read more</a>

Founded in 1963, Oxford Samaritans first started receiving calls in what is now the library of Lincoln College. Over the last sixty years, upwards of 2,000 volunteers have answered millions of phone calls, listened to daytime visitors, and responded to thousands of texts and e-mails. This is their story. Written by a volunteer, and filled ... <a title="Listening for Life" class="read-more" href="https://heritagehunter.co.uk/books/listening-for-life/" aria-label="Read more about Listening for Life">Read more</a>

We all think the NHS was first dreamed up by Nye Bevan when he became minister of health in 1945. Yet experiments with the NHS and welfare state in fact started many years before. Inspired by a doctor who coined the phrase “national health service” in 1910, John Tomley and David Davies took steps to ... <a title="The First NHS" class="read-more" href="https://heritagehunter.co.uk/books/the-first-nhs/" aria-label="Read more about The First NHS">Read more</a>

Artists such as Philip Wilson Steer and Charles Rennie Mackintosh produced some of their best known work in the Suffolk seaside village of Walberswick. Why did they, and so many other interesting characters choose Walberswick? The decades each side of 1900 saw the creation of large, unique houses and the arrival of eccentric families to ... <a title="Walberswick" class="read-more" href="https://heritagehunter.co.uk/books/walberswick/" aria-label="Read more about Walberswick">Read more</a>

‘I was born in January 1936, and I learned to count by the bombs dropping on Liverpool. My parents were godly people and I was early taught my duty to God and those around me. Very early in my life I felt that God’s hand was on me, and I married a man whose sense ... <a title="Jump Now, Mrs Williams" class="read-more" href="https://heritagehunter.co.uk/books/jump-now-mrs-williams/" aria-label="Read more about Jump Now, Mrs Williams">Read more</a>

The first book by iconic zine creators and cultural phenomenon Weird Walk. This is a superbly designed guide to Britain’s strange and ancient places, to standing stones and pagan rituals, and to the process of re-enchantment via weird walking. In this book is a radical idea. By walking the ancient landscape of Britain and following ... <a title="Weird Walk" class="read-more" href="https://heritagehunter.co.uk/books/weird-walk/" aria-label="Read more about Weird Walk">Read more</a>