Pen Sword History imprint: 259 books
Yorkshire's Secret Castles
A Concise Guide & Companion
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The Yorkshire countryside’s ancient earthwork castles, built in the time of the Norman Conquest, come to life in this beautiful guide—includes pictures!
The Norman conquest of the British isle was a landmark event in England’s history, drawing a line between its misty Roman and Saxon...
by Cathy Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Cathy Hunt examines the lives of Coventry women throughout one extraordinary century of change. The result of her detailed research is a book packed with stories of what it was like to be a woman between 1850 and 1950.
During these years, women broke through barriers so that future generations...
by David F Walford, Catherine Rayner
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
This lighthearted but deeply researched book offers interest and guidance to walkers, social historians and lovers of the Bronte family, their lives and works.
Set in and around the town of Haworth it gives a dual introduction to walkers and lovers of literature who can explore this unique...
Entertaining the Braganzas
When Queen Maria of Portugal visited William Stephens in 1788
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Maria I of Portugal was a monarch with absolute power. William Stephens was the illegitimate son of a Cornish servant girl; he sailed for Lisbon at the age of fifteen to become one of the richest industrialists in Europe. The contrast between these two people could not have been greater – they were...
Maids, Wives, Widows
Exploring Early Modern Women's Lives, 1540–1740
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
A broad-ranging exploration of the everyday lives of women—from social calls to medical needs—during one of English history’s most fascinating periods.
Maids, wives, and widows were the official classifications of women according to English law in the early modern era, immediately following...
by Diane Wordsworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
When John Cadbury came to Birmingham in 1824, he sold tea, coffee and drinking chocolate in a small shop on Bull Street. Drinking chocolate was considered a healthy alternative to alcohol, something Cadbury, a Quaker, was keen to encourage.In 1879, the Cadburys moved to Bournville and created their...
by Nadia Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The true story of the man who created Winnie-the-Pooh—yet struggled to enjoy the overwhelming success that it brought him.
Thanks to a phenomenally popular collection of whimsical children’s stories about a boy named Christopher Robin and his beloved teddy bear, A.A. Milne remains a household...
by John D Grainger
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Between c.350 BC and 30 BC the Mediterranean world was one in which kings ruled. The exceptions were the Greek cities and Roman Italy. But for most of that period neither of these republican areas was central to events. For the crucial centuries between Alexander the Great and the Roman conquest of...
Treachery and Retribution
England's Dukes, Marquesses and Earls: 1066–1707
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This is the history of England’s turbulent times, told through the stories of the country’s nobility. The book begins with the Norman Conquest in 1066 and ends with the union of England and Scotland in 1707. The nobility fought wars against Scotland in the north and against France on the Continent....
by Chris Jagger
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Escorting the Monarch is as close to an official history of the Metropolitan Police's 'Special Escort Group' (SEG) as one could hope for.
You may have seen the team at work; as the combination of motorcycles and cars pass you by, they glide elegantly and seemingly effortlessly through busy...
Cecily Neville
Mother of Richard III
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Wife to Richard, Duke of York, mother to Edward IV and Richard III, and aunt to the famous ‘Kingmaker’, Richard, Earl of Warwick, Cecily Neville was a key player on the political stage of fifteenth-century Britain England.
Mythologically rumoured to have been known as ‘the Rose of Raby’...
The Duke of Monmouth
Life and Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
He was the illegitimate son of a king, a gallant and brave military hero, charming, handsome and well loved both within the court and with women; James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, had the life many would have envied in the seventeenth century.
Monmouth lived in an age that was on the cusp of modernity....
Emperor Alexander Severus
Rome's Age of Insurrection, AD222-235
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Alexander Severus' is full of controversy and contradictions. He came to the throne through the brutal murder of his cousin, Elagabalus, and was ultimately assassinated himself. The years between were filled with regular uprisings and rebellions, court intrigue (the Praetorian Guard slew their commander...
The Founding of Israel
The Journey to a Jewish Homeland from Abraham to the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
A chronological history of the Jewish people—from the earliest attempts to establish a homeland during Biblical times to the creation of Israel.
More than seventy years ago in 1948, the State of Israel came into being amidst great controversy. How did the state arise? What led to the founding...