Pen Sword History imprint: 259 books
Struggle and Suffrage in Sheffield
Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
This book looks into the role of women of Sheffield and how it has evolved from the powerlessness of a woman involved in a wife sale, to the achievement of the election of its first female Lord Mayor. Using, newspapers of the period, archive material and modern photographs, this book examines how...
by Bernadette Fallon
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
**Pointing persistently to heaven: A guide to UK cathedrals**
Power, glory, bloodshed, prayer: cathedrals in the UK are as much about human drama as spiritual sanctuary, as much about political wrangling as religious fervour. From Christian beginnings in the Middle Ages through Reformation,...
by Bernadette Fallon
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
**Pointing persistently to heaven: A guide to UK cathedrals**
Rich, rolling countryside and historic towns, scenic coasts and picture-perfect landscapes. The west of England and Wales has many attractions, and not least of these are its cathedrals. Here you’ll find some of Britain’s finest...
Tracing Your Glasgow Ancestors
A Guide for Family and Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Tracing Your Glasgow Ancestors is a volume in the series of city ancestral guides published by Pen & Sword for readers and researchers who want to find out about life in Glasgow in the past and to know where the key sources for its history can be found. In vivid detail it describes the rise of...
Tracing Your Ancestors Using the Census
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
The Pen & Sword guide to the census is detailed, accessible and authoritative, and it is one of the most comprehensive on the market. It has been written with the family historian in mind, and it is packed with advice on how to explore and get the most from the census records. As well as describing...
Writing your Family History
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Gill Blanchard's practical step-by-step guide to writing a family history is designed for anyone who wants to bring their ancestors' stories to life. She looks at ways of overcoming the particular problems family historians face when writing a family history -- how to deal with gaps in knowledge,...
Tracing Your Ancestors Through Local History Records
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Family history should reveal more than facts and dates, lists of names and places – it should bring ancestors alive in the context of their times and the surroundings they knew – and research into local history records is one of the most rewarding ways of gaining this kind of insight into their...
by Paton, Chris
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The internet is revolutionizing family history research. Every day new records and resources are placed online and new methods of sharing research and communicating across cyberspace become available. Never before has it been so easy to research family history and to gain a better understanding of...
Tracing your Family History on the Internet
A Guide for Family Historians- Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
This fully revised second edition of Chris Paton's best-selling guide is essential reading if you want to make effective use of the internet in your family history research. Every day new records and resources are placed online and new methods of sharing research and communicating across cyberspace...
Tracing History Through Title Deeds
A Guide for Family and Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Property title deeds are perhaps the most numerous sources of historical evidence but also one of the most neglected. While the information any one deed contains can often be reduced to a few lines, it can be of critical importance for family and local historians. Nat Alcock's handbook aims to help...
Tracing Your Edinburgh Ancestors
A Guide for Family and Local historians
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Edinburgh has been the capital of Scotland for the last 500 years and more. The 'Athens of the North' is the centre of Scottish banking, medicine, architecture, law and publishing. It is the home of Scotland's national museums and the location of the Queen's official residence in Scotland and of the...
The Family History Web Directory
The Genealogical Websites You Can't Do Without
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Jonathan Scott's Family History Web Directory is an information-packed reference guide that distils the best of the internet into one easy-to-use format. Themed sections cover different topics, from 'getting started' to specific occupations, and there is an index reproducing all the websites in A-Z...
Tracing Your Ancestors' Childhood
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Every family historian has child ancestors, and childhood experiences and records are an essential aspect of research into a past life. That is why Sue Wilkes's detailed and accessible handbook is such a useful guide for anyone who is trying to find out about the early years of their forbears. In...
London’s East End
A Guide for Family and Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
The East End is one of the most famous parts of London and it has had its own distinctive identity since the district was first settled in medieval times. It is best known for extremes of poverty and deprivation, for strong political and social movements, and for the extraordinary mix of immigrants...