Pen Sword History imprint: 259 books
Visitors' Historic Britain: Cornwall
Romans to Victorians
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Cornwall has a rich and diverse history stretching from prehistoric times to the Norman Conquest and beyond, including the turbulent Tudor period, the English Civil War and the First and Second World Wars. Neolithic settlements and Bronze Age dwellings have been found at Carn Brea in Redruth and Rough...
Evacuees
Children's Lives on the WW2 Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
On the outbreak of the Second World War, during the first week of September 1939 over three million people were evacuated. Operation Pied Piper was the largest ever transportation of people across Britain, and most of those moved to safety in the countryside were schoolchildren.
Social historian...
Victorian Convicts
100 Criminal Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
What was life like in the Victorian underworld – who were the criminals, what crimes did they commit, how did they come to a criminal career, and what happened to them after they were released from prison? Victorian Convicts, by telling the stories of a hundred criminal men and women, gives the...
Commuters
The History of a British Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Before the Industrial Revolution, everyone lived within short walking distance of their workplace. However, all of this has now changed and many people commute large distances to work, often taking around one hour in each direction. We are now used to being stuck in traffic, crammed onto a train,...
South Yorkshire Mining Villages
A History of the Region's Former Coal mining Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Over a period of more than 150 years between the late eighteenth century and the 1930s the South Yorkshire rural landscape was transformed by coal mining and the movement of coal. But it was not just the development of collieries, canals and railways that caused this transformation. The population...
Voyages from the Past
A History of passengers at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
A social history of sea travel from the passengers' perspective, encompassing all walks of life and vessels departing from a variety of UK ports. Simon Wills tells the stories of ordinary people who travelled by sea between 1600 and 1940, from early Ameri
by David Hey
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
South Yorkshire has some of the most varied countryside in England, ranging from the Pennine moors and the wooded hills and valleys in the west to the estate villages on the magnesian limestone escarpment and the lowlands in the east. Each of these different landscapes has been shaped by human activities...
Ribbons Among the Rajahs
A History of British Women in India Before the Raj
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
From the mid-eighteenth century onwards, British women started traveling in any numbers to the East Indies, mostly to accompany husbands, brothers or fathers. Very little about them is recorded from the earlier years, about the remarkable journeys that they made and what drove them to travel those...
by Laurence Waters
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The gradual growth of the railways in Britain during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in both passenger and freight traffic, saw the requirement for a more powerful and versatile type of motive power – mixed traffic locomotives. The construction of Great Western Halls and Modified...
The Pug Who Bit Napoleon
Animal Tales of the 18th & 19th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
From Victorian cat funerals to a Regency-era pony who took a ride in a hot air balloon, a collection of history’s quirkiest—and most poignant—animal tales.
Meet Fortune, the Pug who bit Napoleon on his wedding night, and Looty, the Pekingese sleeve dog who was presented to Queen Victoria...
by Philip J Potter
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
On 11 October 1492 the sun set on a clear Atlantic Ocean horizon and the night was cloudless with a late rising moon. As the lookouts high in the riggings of Christopher Columbus’ three ships strained their eyes into the golden light of the moon, near two o’clock in the morning the watchman on...
Historical Heroines
One Hundred Women You Should Know About
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
From Mata Hari and Pocahontas to Lucrezia Borgia and Hedy Lamarr—fascinating portraits of history’s most unforgettable, and some unjustly forgotten, women.
Cleopatra. Audrey Hepburn. Sappho. Calamity Jane. Marie Antoinette. Lilith. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Dame Emma Hamilton. Mary Shelley....
Beside the Seaside
A History of Yorkshire's Seaside Resorts
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Almost all of us have happy memories of excursions and holidays spent beside the sea. For many, these will have included the Yorkshire coast which runs unbroken for more than one hundred miles between the two great rivers, the Tees and the Humber. Within those boundaries are the popular seaside resorts...
The Workhouse
The People, The Places, The Life Behind Doors
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
'The stories of those who lived in the shadow of the workhouse'
During the nineteenth century the workhouse cast a shadow over the lives of the poor. The destitute and the desperate sought refuge within its forbidding walls. And it was an ever-present threat if poor families failed to look after...