Pen Sword History imprint: 259 books
Fight the Good Fight
Voices of Faith from the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
“The inspiring stories of a number of very different characters who used their Christian faith to cope with their experiences of the First World War.” —Jacqueline Wadsworth, author of Letters from the Trenches
While a toxic mixture of nationalism and militarism tore Europe and the wider world...
by Matthew Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
King Richard III remains one of the most infamous and recognizable monarchs in English or British history, despite only sitting on the throne for two years and fifty-eight days. His hold on the popular imagination is largely due to the fictional portrayal of him by William Shakespeare which, combined...
by Catherine Curzon
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
As the glittering Hanoverian court gives birth to the English Georgian era, a golden age of royalty dawns in Europe. Houses rise and fall, births, marriages and scandals change the course of history and in France, Revolution stalks the land.
Peep behind the shutters of the opulent court of...
Ancient Dynasties
The Families that Ruled the Classical World, circa 1000 BC to AD 750
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Ancient Dynasties is a unique study of the ruling families of the ancient world known to the Greeks and Romans. The book is in two parts. The first offers analysis and discussion of various features of the ruling dynasties (including the leading families of republican Rome). It examines patterns,...
Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II
Downfall of a King’s Favourite
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II tells the story of ‘the greatest villain of the fourteenth century’, his dazzling rise as favorite to the king and his disastrous fall.
Born in the late 1280s, Hugh married King Edward I of England’s eldest granddaughter when he was a teenager....
by Lynda Telford
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This book describes a selection of people caught up in the turmoil that presaged the reformation - a period of change instigated by a king whose desire for a legitimate son was to brutally sweep aside an entire way of life.
The most famous and influential of the victims were the two people...
Women of the 1960s
More Than Mini Skirts, Pills & Pop Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
An in depth look at the lives of women in the swinging 1960s—beyond the sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll.
The 1960s were a progressive decade, bringing many life changing events, especially for women. Women of the 1960s explores the experiences of teenagers, young career women, and those...
by Stephen Jakobi
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Four turn-of-the-century fiends whose “crimes, even by today’s standards, are still shocking—because they were committed by women” (Yorkshire Magazine).
Their names may not be as familiar as such notorious female serial killers as Aileen Wuornos, Myra Hindley, Martha Beck, or Belle...
Lost to the Sea
Britain's Vanished Coastal Communities: The Yorkshire Coast & Holderness
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Once there was a Roman settlement on what is now Filey Brig. In Holderness, a prosperous town called Ravenser saw kings and princes on its soil, and its progress threatened the good people of Grimsby. But the Romans and the Ravenser folk are long gone, as are their streets and buildings – sunk beneath...
All Quiet on the Home Front
An Oral History of Life in Britain During the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
A “fascinating” look at hardship, heroism, and civilian life in England during the Great War (World War One Illustrated).
The truth about the sacrifice and suffering among British civilians during World War I is rarely discussed. In this book, people who were there speak about experiences and...
British Nannies and the Great War
How Norland's Regiment of Nannies Coped with Conflict and Childcare in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In 1912, Norland children’s nurse Kate Fox was travelling by train heading to the British military station at Nowshera on the Afghan border to care for the premature baby born to the base’s commanding officer. Two years later, Kate was escaping from Germany in the first days of the Great War,...
The Justice Women
The Female Presence in the Criminal Justice System 1800-1970
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The first policewomen were established during the Great War, but with no powers of arrest; the first women lawyers did not practise until the early twentieth century, and despite the fact that women worked as matrons in Victorian prisons, there were few professional women working as prison officers...
Edwardian Ladies' Hat Fashions
Where Did You Get That Hat?
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Based upon the author’s large personal collection of beautiful fashion postcards from Edwardian times, this book takes the reader on a journey through that era – covering the hat fashions and social changes of the day. Delve further into the carnage that took place around the world, in which unscrupulous...
Maladies and Medicine
Exploring Health & Healing, 1540–1740
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Maladies and Medicine offers a lively exploration of health and medical cures in early modern England. The introduction sets out the background in which the body was understood, covering the theory of the four humors and the ways that male and female bodies were conceptualized. It also explains the...