The county of Essex A History and Celebration - includes photographs from The Francis Frith Collection. These are history books about towns and cities around Britain with a difference. Read a History and Celebration book about your home town or city, and you will find out what really shaped your locality. In these authoritative and highly readable texts, the authors recount the stories and events that together made up each location’s history, and relate them directly to what you can still be seen on the ground today.