History Press: 2525 books
Liverpool
A Landscape History
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
The landscape has had a huge impact on the history of Liverpool and Merseyside. The ice age glaciers carved out the Rivers Mersey and Dee; the Sefton coast provided a perfect place for the earliest humans to hunt and gather food; and the Pool and the Mersey, and England’s position on the coast gave...
A History of the Rowayton Waterfront
Roton Point, Bell Island and the Norwalk Shoreline
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Welcome to Rowayton, a vibrant community nestled on the shores of Long Island Sound and encompassed by the city of Norwalk, Connecticut. Great steamships once delivered thousands of visitors daily to Roton Point to enjoy one of the premier amusement parks on the eastern seaboard. Roton Point was also...
Pleasure Boating on the Thames
A History of Salter Bros, 1858-Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
During the Victorian period, the river Thames underwent a dramatic transformation from a great commercial highway into a vast pleasure-stream. This book traces these changes through the history of the firm that did more to popularize pleasure boating on the waterway than any other. The firm of Salters'...
No Holier Spot of Ground
Confederate Monuments & Cemeteries of South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2012
The monuments of South Carolina bear on their weathered faces and cracked tablets a history of honor and of memory embodied in stone. Whether revealing the lost graves of Southern sons, unveiling the history of the only national cemetery to inter Confederate soldiers alongside the Union fallen during...
The Woman Writer
The History of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Since its creation in 1894 by Joseph Snell Wood, the Society of Women Writers & Journalists has attracted the company of many famous women writers, journalists, poets and playwrights. From its early days when at least 200 women applied to join, the Society has expanded to become a world-renowned...
It Runs in the Family
Understanding More About Your Ancestors
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Why didn't my ancestors smile for the camera? Was my great-aunt unusual to have several children in her 40s? Should great-grandma really have married her cousin?Drawing on evidence from social history, women's history, and the histories of photography and fashion, to name but a few, this book looks...
by David Chun
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The Hamble rises at Bishop's Waltham in Hampshire and flows into Southampton Water. It is a relatively small river but it has an interesting and varied history. Above Botley the Hamble powered a number of mills, and in the 17th century plans to make that section navigable were contemplated. The tidal...
by David Barrowclough
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Grave of the deadly nun! The amazing true story of Æthelthryth, Fenland princess. Death to students! The weird origins of the University. A plague on both your parishes! Black death in Cambridge's streets. Off with his head: the bizarre true story of Oliver Cromwell's Traveling Skull. The fifth man:...
Chronologia
History by the Minute
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
A quirky and original reference book containing 24 hours of history that have changed the worldAt what time was Guy Fawkes discovered underneath the Palace of Westminster? When was Captain Bligh ordered off the Bounty? At what time was Einstein's Theory of Relativity proved? What time was on the clock...
by Fran Doel, Geoff Doel
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2001
The Green Man has many facets, many dimensions. He peers through his leaf mask in hundreds of church misericords and stone carvings. His innate link with the changing seasons and fertility is revealed in the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and in summer folk customs such as Jack in the...
by Geoff Holder
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Full details of where to find, and how to kill, all of Britain's most historic zombies—a guide for history lovers to get the most out of the zombie apocalypse Are you worried about the zombie apocalypse? Clasp a copy of this book and make sure to secure yourself a better class of horrible death...
by David J. Vaughan
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Containing: Saxons of Old Sarum! The plague pits of Salisbury! The pub with the withered hand!The book bound in human skin! Fisherton House Lunatic Asylum, where private inmates and criminal lunatics were allowed to mix! Railways of death: how the rail brought death and destruction to Salisbury!...
Nanny Knows Best
The History of the British Nanny
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
From the popular Mary Poppins to the controversial Supernanny, the history of the British Nanny is revealed through fascinating personal storiesNot quite part of the family and definitely an employee; idealized or demonized, the nanny has had a difficult role in family life over the past 200 years....
'This is WAR!'
The Diaries and Journalism of Anthony Cotterell, 1940–1944
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Anthony Cotterell was a brilliant journalist, conscripted into the British Army in 1940. After the publication of his best-selling book on his time as a conscript, he became an official Army journalist, flying on bombing raids, sailing with convoys, crossing to France on D-Day and taking part in the...