The paranormal history of Cumbria is brought vividly to life in this guide to the haunted and uncanny sites of this most beautiful of counties. In this book psychical researcher Steve Watson travels from the county’s northern towns of Carlisle, Brampton and Penrith, through the beautiful Lake District, before finishing in the county’s southern seaside towns of Grange-over-Sands and Barrow-in-Furness, exploring the area’s often grisly past and its present-day hauntings so the reader can go ...

The history of Middlesbrough and Teesside goes back through millennia, from the foundation of its ninth-century priory to its huge growth in the Industrial Revolution. In this book author Steve Watson investigates the rich supernatural heritage of this town and the surrounding Teesside area, not only the well-known phenomena but also lesser-known hauntings from the past and present day including the ghost of Middlesbrough Town Hall, Dorman Museum and its many haunted pubs. The book also co...

Sela is assigned to be a private gardener for Theodore "Teddy" Woven's ancestral home. The young gardener soon finds her presence unwelcome as she slowly uncovers the truth about his family’s past. The greatest mystery of all lies not in the house, but with its owner.

It's Halloween weekend, and Sara and her friends decide to go out into the wilderness to stay at Blackthorn Campground. When they arrive the campsite is eerily quiet, and the only lodger living there is quite adamant that they should leave. Sara and her friends choose to stay at the camp site, forcing them to face the consequences of their own actions.

A Group Study Guide to David Gushee's Bestselling After EvangelicalismMillions are getting lost in the evangelical maze: inerrancy, indifference to the environment, deterministic Calvinism, purity culture, racism, LGBTQ discrimination, male dominance, and Christian nationalism. As one of America's leading public scholars on these issues in religion today, David Gushee offers a clear assessment and his book After Evangelicalism shines a light on th...

Newcastle, the largest city in the North East, has a long and proud history stretching back to Roman and Saxon times. Its position defending the mouth of the River Tyne gave it an importance in the medieval border wars with Scotland and by the sixteenth century it controlled the coal trade from Tyneside to the rest of England. The city became an industrial powerhouse in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the legacy of civic buildings, industrial heritage and housing can still be ...

Sunderland’s proud history encompasses its beginnings as a major centre of religious learning in the early medieval period and its growth into a major port and shipbuilding centre on the mouth of the River Wear. Today, the city and the surrounding Wearside area is a major centre of car manufacturing and other industries in the North East. In this book author Steve Watson investigates the rich supernatural heritage of this city and the surrounding Wearside area, not only the well-known phen...

This book is about the way that professionals in archaeology and in other sectors of heritage interact with a range of stakeholder groups, communities and the wider public. Whilst these issues have been researched and discussed over many years and in many geographical contexts, the debate seems to have settled into a comfortable stasis wherein it is assumed that all that can be done by way of engagement has been done and there is little left to achieve. In some cases, such engagement is bu...

Heritage and its economies are driven by affective politics and consolidated through emotions such as pride, awe, joy and pain. In the humanities and social sciences, there is a widespread acknowledgement of the limits not only of language and subjectivity, but also of visuality and representation. Social scientists, particularly within cultural geography and cultural studies, have recently attempted to define and understand that which is more-than-representational, through the development...

The complex relationship between heritage places and people, in the broadest sense, can be considered dialogic, a communicative act that has implications for both sides of the ‘conversation’. This is the starting point for Heritage and Tourism. However, the ‘dialogue’ between visitors and heritage sites is complex. ‘Visitors’ have, for many decades, become synonymous with ‘tourists’ and the tourism industry and so the dialogic relationship between heritage place and tourists has p...

The Character Coach's Playbook is not just a book, it is a tool! With millions of athletes playing today, it is time to coach the coaches about coaching. Very few (Little League through high school) coaches have any training in the arena of character development. Every great coach from Lombardi to Bowden and Osborne to Wooden understood the importance of personal character. Steve and Huey have produced a practical guide to assist and train coaches in this most important endeavor. The playb...

The 'visual' has long played a crucial role in forming experiences, associations, expectations and understandings of heritage. Images convey meaning within a range of practices, including tourism, identity construction, the popularization of the past through a variety of media, and the memorialization of events. However, despite the central role of 'the visual' in these contexts, it has been largely neglected in heritage literature. This edited collection is the first to explore the produc...