How to Survive in Staffordshire

Charles Wood is fervent about Staffordshire. With gentle humour, he celebrates the odd, the unusual, the historic, and the peculiarities of modern life ¿ from dialect to deer-horn dancing ¿ that make this county such a deeply satisfying place to live in and to visit. Full of fascinating people ¿ like the Wedgwoods and the Peels ¿ the book is rich in folk-tale and fantasy, football and food (including the many different local and national staples that hail from the county, including Staffordshire oatcakes, Staffordshire cheese, Burton beer, Marmite and Branston pickle). Funny and poignant, this is a book of snippets and pointers for the long-suffering local, the goggle-eyed visitor, the furrow-browed historian, or merely the inquisitive, intrigued at How to Survive in Staffordshire.