Pen Sword History imprint: 259 books
The Real Sherlock Holmes
The Hidden Story of Jerome Caminada
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
On 6 December 1886, Arthur Foster leaves the Queen's Theatre, Manchester with a pocket full of gold and a lady bedecked with diamonds on his arm. He hails a hansom cab unaware that a detective has been trailing him as he crisscrossed the streets of the city. As the cab pulls away, the detective slips...
In Search of Our Ancient Ancestors
From the Big Bang to Modern Britain in Science and Myth
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
What a fine long pedigree you have given the human race. – Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1863.
How is the Royal Family descended from fish? How distantly are we related to dinosaurs? How much of your DNA came from Neanderthals? How are the builders of Stonehenge connected to great-grandpa?
According...
Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Egypt and Palestine Campaigns
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Egypt and Palestine Campaigns is the first book explicitly aimed at helping the descendants of those who fought in this part of the Middle East find out more about their ancestor’s actions, experiences and achievements. Their wartime lives were very different...
Denby Dale, Skelmanthorpe, Clayton West and District
A Denby & District Archive Photograph Album
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Prepare to take a stroll back through time in and around the villages of Denby Dale, Skelmanthorpe, Clayton West, High Hoyland, Cumberworth, Scissett and more.
This book is a wonderful visual celebration of the villages and hamlets of the Upper Dearne Valley, sited in the beautiful countryside...
Tracing Your Ancestors: Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk
A Guide For Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Gill Blanchard's practical and informative handbook will help you to trace your ancestors in the traditional counties of East Anglia Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex and it will give you an insight into their lives. As well as guiding the researcher to historical records held in all the...
Tracing Your Insolvent Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Debtors’ prisons are infamous but very little has been written about the records of those confined within them in London or elsewhere in the country. Even less has been written about the trials of those who were often incarcerated following misfortune or mismanagement rather than criminal intent....
Terror Attack Brighton
Blowing up the Iron Lady
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The Brighton bombing in 1984 was the most audacious terrorist attack ever on the British Government. Certainly it was the most ambitious since the Gunpowder plot of 1605. The Provisional I.R.A. detonated a bomb at the Grand Hotel on 12th October 1984. Most of the Government were staying at the hotel...