Pen Sword History imprint: 259 books
Post-War Childhood
Growing up in the not-so-friendly ‘Baby Boomer’ Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Many British baby boomers are very nostalgic about a supposed golden age; a vanished world when children were generally freer, happier and healthier than they are now. They wandered about all day; only returning home at teatime when they were hungry. Nobody worried about health and safety or 'stranger...
Struggle and Suffrage in Southend-on-Sea
Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
While Southend-on-Sea, like many seaside towns, may not have been at the forefront of the struggle for suffrage and equal rights in the lives of women between 1850 and 1950, there are surprisingly famous names linked to the town and its women. Novelist Rebecca West, living in nearby Leigh-on-Sea during...
Gandhi, Smuts and Race in the British Empire
Of Passive and Violent Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Towards the end of 1906, a meeting took place between two emerging giants of the age, Mohandas K. Gandhi and General Jan Christian Smuts. United under the same empire, but separated by distance and culture, Smuts was born in the Cape Colony, and Gandhi in Porbandar, a duchy of the Indian province...
Angel Meadow
Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
'It is all free fighting here. Even some of the windows do not open, so it is useless to cry for help. Dampness and misery, violence and wrong, have left their handwriting in perfectly legible characters on the walls.' - Manchester Guardian, 1870
Step into the Victorian underworld of Angel...
Struggle and Suffrage in Huddersfield
Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
If you’ve ever wondered how life changed so much for women over the hundred years between 1850 and 1950, this is a great introduction. During this period, women went from being seen as merely possessions of their fathers or husbands to being individuals who had the right to own property, to enter...
by Brian Elliot
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
There have been many books published about the coal mining industry of Britain but relatively few about the miners themselves. This book is unique in that it concentrates on the miner, his family and his work through a careful selection of illustrations. Although most of the images are photographic,...
The Ingenious Victorians
Weird and Wonderful Ideas from the Age of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
We all know that some of the greatest inventions came from the Victorian age, the successors of which are still with us today. But this book is not entirely about those. It’s more about some of the weird and wonderful inventions, ideas and projects – some successful, others less so – that have...
by Chris Ransted
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
For this book, Chris Ransted has researched some of the lesser known events and personalities relating to the early years of Explosive Ordnance Disposal in the UK. Daring acts of cold blooded bravery, and ingenuity in the face of life threatening technical challenges, are recounted throughout the...
by Brian Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Mining disasters attracted the attention of the public and the press during the twentieth century, just as they had done a few generations earlier. This interest was made even more immediate and certainly more graphic through the increasing use of photographic images and film; and the impact of broadcasting...
Regina Diana
Seductress, Singer, Spy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The Untold Story of Régina Diana tells of the rebellious daughter of working-class French-Italian parents from a run-down area of Geneva who, trained by the most ruthless spymaster of them all, Elisabeth Schragmüller (aka Fraulein Doktor), became a much-adored French ‘café-concert’ singer,...
by Phyllida Scrivens
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The Lady Lord Mayors of Norwich 1923 - 2017 offers an entertaining and revealing insight into the diverse lives, both personal and civic, of seventeen remarkable women, who between 1923 and 2017, has each held the honor of being First Citizen of the City of Norwich in Norfolk England. Moreover, the...
The Disappearance of Maria Glenn
A True Life Regency Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
A kidnapping, an elopement gone wrong, and a sensational nineteenth-century trial are only the beginning of this Regency mystery.
England, 1817. Barrister George Tuckett wakes to discover that his sixteen-year-old niece Maria Glenn, reputed heiress to West Indian sugar plantations, is missing....
The Case of the Chocolate Cream Killer
The Poisonous Passion of Christiana Edmunds
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The true story of the seemingly respectable woman convicted of a murderous spree in Victorian-era Brighton, England.
In 1871, when the news broke of a series of mysterious poisonings in the popular resort town of Brighton, shock and horror gripped the public. Even more disturbing was the revelation...
by Mike Rendell
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
To mark the 300th anniversary of the publication of Robinson Crusoe, this book looks at some of the stories which inspired Daniel Defoe – stories of bravery, courage, determination and good fortune. It looks at Defoe’s life and the monumental success of his novel – sometimes described as being...