Pen Sword History imprint: 259 books
Tracing your Great War Ancestors: The Somme
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
If you want to find out about an ancestor who served on the Somme during the First World War – during the Battle of the Somme in 1916 or at any time during the fighting in this sector of the Western Front – this book is the ideal guide. It provides practical information and advice on how to conduct...
Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Gallipoli Campaign
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Do you have an ancestor who served in the Gallipoli campaign in the First World War? Perhaps you have thought of visiting the battlefields in Turkey and the monuments that commemorate them, and want to find out exactly where and when your ancestor served and what part he played in the landings and...
Jewish Lives
Britain 1750–1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
“Offers a guide to family historians who want to reconstruct their family trees. Invaluable . . . to other Jews in search of their roots” (Jewish Renaissance).
Jewish Lives presents the life-stories of ten individual Jews who immigrated to Britain between 1750 and 1950, based on actual genealogical...
by Simon Wills
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
What was a merchant seaman’s life like in the past, what experiences would he have had, what were the ships like that he sailed in, and what risks did he run? Was he shipwrecked, rewarded for bravery, or punished? And how can you find out about an ancestor who was a member of the long British maritime...
Tracing Your Pre-Victorian Ancestors
A Guide to Research Methods for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Tracing Your Pre-Victorian Ancestors is the ideal handbook for family historians whose research has reached back to the early nineteenth century and are finding it difficult to go further. John Wintrip guides readers through all the steps they can take in order to delve even more deeply into the past.
Carrying...
Tracing Your Nonconformist Ancestors
A Guide for Family and Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
We all have Nonconformist ancestors. In the mid-nineteenth century almost half of the English population were Nonconformists. And there were very few villages where there was not at least one Nonconformist chapel. Local and family historians need to be aware of the diversity of Nonconformity, and...
Brutus of Troy
And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
A “fascinating [and] unique exploration” of the mythological founder of Britain, divine ancestor of King Arthur, and symbol of British identity (Your Family History).
Believed to be a great-great-great grandson of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, Brutus of Troy led a voyage from Greece to Britain....
The Home Front in World War Two
Keep Calm and Carry On
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
This book brings an era to life with vivid stories and information from those who were there. During World War Two, 90% of the British population remained civilians. The War affected daily life more than any other war had done before. The majority of British people faced this will fortitude, courage...
Criminal Children
Researching Juvenile Offenders, 1820–1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
A history of juvenile crime, punishment, and reform in England in the years before, during, and after the era of Charles Dickens.
How were juvenile delinquents dealt with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? What dire circumstances led to their behavior? Were the efforts to curb...
Conscientious Objectors of the First World War
A Determined Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
The story of conscientious objection in Britain begins in 1916, when conscription was introduced for the first time. Some 16,000 men — the first conscientious objectors — refused conscription because they believed on grounds of conscience that it was wrong to kill and wrong of any government to...
Tracing Your Seafaring Ancestors
A Guide to Maritime Photographs for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Photographs of your seafaring ancestors may tell you more about their lives than you realize, and Simon Wills’s helpful and practical guide shows you how to identify and interpret the evidence caught on camera. Since maritime roles have been so vital to Britain’s prosperity and military might,...
Tracing Your Ancestors Through Family Photographs
A Complete Guide for Family and Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Jayne Shrimpton's complete guide to dating, analysing and understanding family photographs is essential reading and reference for anyone undertaking genealogical and local history research. Using over 150 old photographs as examples, she shows how such images can give a direct insight into the past...
Tracing Your Ancestors in County Records
A Guide for Family and Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
For over 500 years, between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Justices of the Peace were the embodiment of government for most of our ancestors. The records they and other county officials kept are invaluable sources for local and family historians, and Stuart Raymond's handbook is the...
The Victorian Guide to Sex
Desire and deviance in the 19th century
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
An exciting factual romp through sexual desire, practises and deviance in the Victorian era. The Victorian Guide to Sex will reveal advice and ideas on sexuality from the Victorian period. Drawing on both satirical and real life events from the period, it explores every facet of sexuality that the...