History Press: 2525 books
by Simon Webb
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Taking you through the year day by day, The Colchester Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing, and important events and facts from different periods in the history of Britain’s oldest recorded town. Ideal for dipping into, this addictive little book will keep you entertained and informed....
Cromwell to Cromwell
Reformation to Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011
How England became radical and revolutionary in the time between the Reformation and the Civil War—with a reappraisal of Thomas Cromwell's legacy and new approach to causes of the Civil War Following on from his biography of Thomas Cromwell, John Schofield examines how the English character and...
King Arthur Conspiracy
How a Scottish Prince Became a Mythical Hero
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
A controversial book offering new evidence that Arthuir mac Aedain was the real King Arthur Arthur led the Britons to the brink of victory but was cut down by treachery and betrayal. Arthurian legends have since been corrupted, leading to popular but false assumptions about the king and the belief...
by John Van der Kiste
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2004
The eldest of King George III's children, who became Prince Regent and King George IV, is less remembered for his patronage of the arts than for his extravagance and maltreatment of his wife. This objective portrayal of the royal family draws upon sources to lay to rest the gossip and exaggeratio
Rise and Fall of the Knights Templar
The Order of the Temple 1118-1314 - A True History of Faith, Glory, Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
A highly readable look at the lifespan of the famous Knights Templar, who were warrior monks and the first disciplined, regulated, and uniformed standing army since antiquity throughout Europe and the Holy Lands—an economic force to be reckoned with and perhaps an institution guarding dark secrets....
Princess Nest of Wales
Seductress of the English
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The daughter of one king and the lover of another; matriarch of a powerful dynasty and the cause of conflict and war: Nest, princess of Dyfed, became a legend. This biography reveals Nest's role in one of the most exciting and dynamic periods of Welsh, Irish and English history.
by Peter Bramley
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
A guide to the historical sites associated with the Wars of the Roses The Wars of the Roses (1455–85) saw the end of Plantagenet rule in England & Wales, and the accession of the Tudor dynasty to the throne. It is sometimes seen as the end of the Middle Ages in England, and the start of the...
Jewish Ireland
A Social History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
An engaging and thoroughly researched panorama of the Irish Jewish communityBased on library and archival material, private memoirs, and oral testimony, this book traces Irish-Jewish life from the 1880s when Orthodox Russian Jews, forced to flee Tsarist persecution, began arriving in Ireland without...
by Bruce Durie
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Welsh genealogy is usually included with its English cousin, but there are significant differences between the two, and anyone wishing to trace their Welsh ancestry will encounter peculiarities that are not covered by books on English family history. There is a separate system of archives and repositories...
Blood Cries Afar
The Magna Carta War and the Invasion of England 1215-1217
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Details an invasion that could have changed Britain as we know it, prompted by events at Runnymede where the barons brought an errant king to heel and in doing so provided an opportunity for conquestTaking advantage of the turmoil created in England by King John's inept rule and the barons' demands,...
Prisoner King
Charles I in Captivity
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
After more than half a century of comparative neglect, the crucial period encompassing Charles I's captivity after his surrender to the Scots at Newark in 1646 is ripe for re-examination—with new perspectives and insights based on up-to-date research. The months before his trial were a critical...
Palace and the Bunker
Royal Resistance to Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
A study of the role of German and Austrian royals in Hitler's defeat The part played by the many German and Austrian royal families in opposing Hitler has hitherto been overlooked, and this history outlines many incredible instances of their involvement. Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia was deeply...
Blood Roses
The Houses of Lancaster and York Before the Wars of the Roses
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
In 1453, Richard, Duke of York, claimed the throne of England from his Lancastrian kinsman Henry VI, and set off a series of conflicts between rival branches of the English royal family, better known as the Wars of the Roses. Blood Roses traces the origins of this bitter rivalry all the way back to...
Harpenden Childhood Remembered
Growing Up in the 1940s & 50s
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
John Cooper vividly recalls the dark days of the Second World War - air raids, rationing, Home Guard manoeuvres, prisoners of war on the doorstep and the excitement of VE Day - and the long, carefree days of post-war childhood that followed, when the pace of life was much gentler than today. The author...