Pen Sword: 3374 books
by Elizabeth Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Elizabeth Peacock served as MP for Batley and Spen for 14 years and was one of the most outspoken politicians during her time at Westminster.
Famed for her 'no nonsense, just common sense' approach, Elizabeth won many admirers along with a reputation for being difficult. Not afraid to vote against...
The Mighty Healer
Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Verity Holloway’s nineteenth-century cousin Thomas Holloway’s patent medicine empire was so ubiquitous, Charles Dickens commented that if you’d murdered someone with the name Holloway, you’d think their spirit had come back to torment you. Advertising as far away as the pyramids in Giza, it...
The Dark Side of Isaac Newton
Science's Greatest Fraud?
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Isaac Newton was accorded a semi-divine status in the 18th and 19th centuries, whereby his image linked together religion and science. The real human being behind the demi-god image has tended to be lost. He was a person who took credit from others, and crushed the reputations of those to whom he...
Scourge of Henry VIII
The Life of Marie de Guise
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The little-known story of the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots and her feud with the Tudors: “Will fascinate anyone who loves a simmering, twisting tale” (All About History).
Mary, Queen of Scots continues to intrigue both historians and the general public—but the story of her mother, Marie...
The Life of Henrietta Anne
Daughter of Charles I
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Henrietta Anne Stuart, youngest child of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, was born in June 1644 in the besieged city of Exeter at the very height of the English Civil War. The hostilities had separated her parents and her mother was on the run from Parliamentary forces when she gave birth with only...
Forgotten Royal Women
The King and I
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
Great women are hidden behind great men, or so they say, and no man is greater than the king. For centuries, royal aunts, cousins, sisters and mothers have watched history unfold from the shadows, their battlefields the bedchamber or the birthing room, their often short lives remembered only through...
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...
by Jules Harper, Aurora von Goeth
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Innovator. Tyrant. Consummate showman. Passionate lover of women.
After the death of King Louis XIII in 1643, the French crown went to his first-born son and heir, four-year old Louis XIV. In the extraordinary seventy-two years that followed, Louis le Grand - France’s self-styled ‘Sun King’...
The Legitimacy of Bastards
The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising that so many of them had mistresses and illegitimate children. John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, married at the age of twenty to a...
by Peter Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
On 22 August 1485 the forces of the Yorkist king Richard III and his Lancastrian opponent Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond clashed at Bosworth Field in Leicestershire in one of the decisive battles of English history. Richard was defeated and killed. Henry took the crown as Henry VII, established the...
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....
A Peer Among Princes
The Life of Thomas Graham, Victor of Barrosa, Hero of the Peninsular War
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Sir Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, is best known for his exceptional military career. He was one of the Duke of Wellington’s ablest lieutenants during the Peninsular War – he won a great victory against the French at the Battle of Barrosa, conducted the siege of San Sebastian and acted as the duke’s...
by Catherine Curzon
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
An account of four royal women that’s “as inherently fascinating as it is exceptionally informative . . . an extraordinary read from beginning to end” (Midwest Book Review).
Once upon a time there were four kings called George who, thanks to a quirk of fate, ruled Great Britain for...
Bloody Mary
Tudor Terror, 1553–1558
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
The tragic history of Queen Mary I and her brief reign of terror against Protestants in sixteenth century England—includes illustrations.
When Mary Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VIII, succeeded to the throne of England in 1553, she enjoyed a degree of popularity rarely seen on the accession...