Your Towns and Cities In The Great War books in order

Your Towns and Cities in the Great War is a 98-volume non-fiction series covering the impact of World War I on individual British towns, cities, and regions. Published between 2014 and 2021, the books draw on local records and newspaper archives to document the home front experience town by town.

Reading order

# Title Published Author Buy on Amazon
1 Carmarthen in the Great War 2014 M.J. Trow Buy
2 Hove and Portslade in the Great War 2014 M.J. Trow Buy
3 Billericay in the Great War 2014 M.J. Trow Buy
4 Bristol in the Great War 2014 M.J. Trow Buy
5 Carlisle in the Great War 2014 M.J. Trow Buy
6 Rotherham In The Great War 2014 M.J. Trow Buy
7 Liverpool in the Great War 2014 M.J. Trow Buy
8 Plymouth in the Great War 2014 M.J. Trow Buy
9 Southampton in The Great War 2014 M.J. Trow Buy
10 Southend-on-Sea in the Great War 2014 M.J. Trow Buy
11 Sunderland in the Great War 2014 M.J. Trow Buy
12 Chester in the Great War 2014 M.J. Trow Buy
13 Washington in the Great War 2014 M.J. Trow Buy
14 Dumfriesshire in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
15 Cardiff & The Valleys In The Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
16 Swansea in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
17 Huddersfield in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
18 Shrewsbury in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
19 Dorking in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
20 York in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
21 Oxford in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
22 Crewe in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
23 Laindon in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
24 Isle of Wight in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
25 Chelmsford in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
26 Torquay in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
27 Exeter in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
28 Castle Point in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
29 Aldershot in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
30 Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
31 Nottingham in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
32 Glossop in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
33 Barrow-in-Furness in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
34 Ashton-under-Lyne in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
35 Graysin the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
36 Bath in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
37 Watford & South West Herts in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
38 Weymouth, Dorchester & Portland in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
39 Whitehaven in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
40 Sheffield in the Great War and Beyond: 1916 - 1918 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
41 Halifax in the Great War 2015 M.J. Trow Buy
42 Kidderminster in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
43 Cambridge In The Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
44 Leatherhead in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
45 Berwick-upon-Tweed in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
46 Brighton in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
47 Hull in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
48 Dartford in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
49 Grimsby in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
50 Lancaster in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
51 Stockport in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
52 Pontefract and Castleford in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
53 Salisbury in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
54 Oswestry and Whitchurch in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
55 Winchester in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
56 Newport in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
57 Tynedale in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
58 Norwich in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
59 Coventry in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
60 City of London in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
61 Isle of Man in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
62 Lincoln in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
63 Leeds in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
64 Glasgow in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
65 Romford in the Great War 2016 M.J. Trow Buy
66 Bury St Edmunds in the Great War 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
67 Chatham in the Great War 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
68 Aberdeen in the Great War 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
69 Edinburgh in the Great War 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
70 Chichester in the Great War 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
71 Wellington in the Great War 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
72 Dover in the Great War 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
73 Durham City in the Great War 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
74 Birmingham in the Great War: Mobilisation and Recruitment: The First Eighteen Months of the War 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
75 Folkestone in the Great War 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
76 Warwick in the Great War 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
77 Colchester in the Great War 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
78 Windermere & Grasmere in the Great War 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
79 Stafford in the Great War: Towns And Cities 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
80 Maidstone in the Great War 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
81 Barnsley in the Great War 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
82 City of Manchester in the Great War 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
83 Wakefield in the Great War 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
84 Norfolk Coast in the Great War 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
85 Isles of Sheppey in the Great War 2017 M.J. Trow Buy
86 Isle of Thanet in the Great War 2018 M.J. Trow Buy
87 Clacton-on-Sea and the Surrounding Coastline in the Great War 2018 M.J. Trow Buy
88 Bostonin the Great War 2018 M.J. Trow Buy
89 Scarborough in the Great War 2018 M.J. Trow Buy
90 Yateley in the Great War 2018 M.J. Trow Buy
91 Ironbridge in the Great War 2018 M.J. Trow Buy
92 Hartlepool in the Great War 2018 M.J. Trow Buy
93 Newtownards in the Great War 2019 M.J. Trow Buy
94 Hythe in the Great War 2019 M.J. Trow Buy
95 Peterborough in the Great War 2019 M.J. Trow Buy
96 Barking and Dagenham in the Great War 2019 M.J. Trow Buy
97 Poole in the Great War 2019 M.J. Trow Buy
98 Ludlow in the Great War 2021 M.J. Trow Buy

Your Towns and Cities in the Great War is one of the most ambitious local history publishing projects in British popular non-fiction. Running to 98 volumes published between 2014 and 2021, the series gave individual treatment to towns, cities, and regions across England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, documenting how each community experienced the years of the First World War.

M.J. Trow wrote many of the volumes himself, drawing on the same research instincts and archival habits he brings to his historical fiction and true crime non-fiction. Each book covers the same broad period — roughly 1914 to 1918 — but from the ground level of a specific place, using local newspapers, council records, military enlistment figures, and accounts of the dead to give the statistics of the war a human face.

The towns covered range from major cities like Liverpool, Glasgow, and Bristol to smaller communities like Carmarthen, Billericay, and Dorking. The breadth of the series means it functions as a kind of collective portrait of the British home front — each volume a single tile in a much larger picture. For readers with a connection to a particular place, finding their town in the series gives the already well-documented conflict a personal angle.


Frequently Asked Questions

How many books are in the Your Towns and Cities In The Great War series?

There are 98 books in the Your Towns and Cities In The Great War series, published between 2014 and 2021.

What is the first book in the Your Towns and Cities In The Great War series?

The first book in the Your Towns and Cities In The Great War series is Carmarthen in the Great War, published in 2014.

Are the volumes in this series connected, or can I read just the one for my town?

Each volume is completely self-contained and covers a specific town or region. You can read any volume independently. If you are interested in a particular place, go directly to that volume without needing any of the others.

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