Pen Sword History imprint: 259 books
by Lucinda Hawksley
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Dickens and Christmas is an exploration of the 19th-century phenomenon that became the Christmas we know and love today – and of the writer who changed, forever, the ways in which it is celebrated. Charles Dickens was born in an age of great social change. He survived childhood poverty to become...
The Mighty Healer
Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Verity Holloway’s nineteenth-century cousin Thomas Holloway’s patent medicine empire was so ubiquitous, Charles Dickens commented that if you’d murdered someone with the name Holloway, you’d think their spirit had come back to torment you. Advertising as far away as the pyramids in Giza, it...
The Life of Henrietta Anne
Daughter of Charles I
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Henrietta Anne Stuart, youngest child of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, was born in June 1644 in the besieged city of Exeter at the very height of the English Civil War. The hostilities had separated her parents and her mother was on the run from Parliamentary forces when she gave birth with only...
The Legitimacy of Bastards
The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising that so many of them had mistresses and illegitimate children. John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, married at the age of twenty to a...
Pharaoh Seti I
Father of Egyptian Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Pharaoh Seti I ruled Egypt for only 11 years (1290-1279 BC), but his reign marked a revival of Egyptian military and economic power, as well as cultural and religious life. Seti was born the son of a military officer in northern Egypt, far from the halls of power in Memphis and Thebes. However, when...
by Sarah Seaton
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
A vivid and graphic survey of the casualties of childhood during the Victorian Era through detailed and never-before-seen firsthand accounts.
Take a fascinating journey into the real lives of Victorian children—how they lived, worked, played, and far too often, died before reaching adulthood....
Marie Antoinette's Confidante
The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The true story of the woman who befriended the last queen of France—and the price she paid for her devotion.
Perhaps no one knew Marie Antoinette better than one of her closest confidantes, Marie Thérèse, the Princess de Lamballe. The princess became superintendent of the queen’s household...
Mary Ann Cotton - Dark Angel
Britain's First Female Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
A female thief, with four husbands, a lover and, reportedly, over twelve children, is arrested and tried for the murder of her stepson in 1872, turning the small village of West Auckland in County Durham upside down. Other bodies are exhumed and when they are found to contain arsenic, she is suspected...
Escaping Hitler
A Jewish Boy's Quest for Freedom and His Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Escaping Hitler is the true story, covering ninety years, of a fourteen-year-old boy Günter Stern who, when Adolf Hitler threatened his family, education and future, resolved to escape from his rural village of Nickenich in the German Rhineland. In July 1939 Günter boarded a bus to the border with...
Children in the Second World War
Memories from the Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
“Stunning photographs” and firsthand accounts propel a book that “brings together the memories of more than 200 child survivors of the Blitz” (Daily Mail).
It was not just the upheaval caused by evacuation and the blitzes that changed a generation’s childhood, it was how war pervaded...
In Bed with the Georgians
Sex, Scandal and Satire in the 18th Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
In Bed with the Georgians provides a fascinating insight into life under the bed-clothes in Georgian England, where the Madams and pimps were able to thrive in the eighteenth century like never before. It looks at high-class seraglios as well as the brothels, jelly-houses and bagnios which flourished...
The Lengthening War
The Great War Diary of Mabel Goode
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This is a strong narrative of the war, easy to read, mixing news with personal feelings and events (often revealing gap between official news and reality).
The diary captures the authors' growing disillusionment with the war, as it gradually encroaches on her life. The diary starts with great excitement,...
Burned at the Stake
The Life and Death of Mary Channing
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
A true story of crime and punishment in eighteenth-century England, and the first trial in recorded history to employ forensic evidence.
In 1706, nineteen-year-old Mary Channing was convicted of poisoning her husband and became the last woman to be burned at the stake in Dorset. Despite the likely...
by James Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
In the Tudor age the murder rate was five times higher than it is today. Now, in this unique true crime guide, the Tudor Murder Files reveals just how bloody and brutal this fascinating era really was.
From the dark days of Henry VIII to the turbulent times of Shakespeare, James Moore’s new book...