Pen And Sword History imprint: 193 books
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 Catherine Curzon
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
From Windsor to Weymouth, the shadow of scandal was never too far from the walls of the House of Hanover. Did a fearsome duke really commit murder or a royal mistress sell commissions to the highest bidders, and what was the truth behind George III's supposed secret marriage to a pretty Quaker?With...
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,...
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...
Rebuilding Post-War Britain
Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian refugees in Britain, 1946-51
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
'Germany wasn't really a place for settling in, because after the war it was pretty devastated, and there wasn't really a chance to start again, so I thought Id come to England. It was a case of people between 18 and 50 and you had to be fit because it was mainly physical work. For men, it was mines...
Struggle and Suffrage in Bradford
Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
In 1850, the population of Bradford was 103,000, having soared from 34,000 just ten years earlier. The town was on the cusp of worldwide fame as, over the coming decades, it would grow to become the wool capital of the world.
Struggle and Suffrage in Bradford explores what it was like to be...
by Bernadette Fallon
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
**Pointing persistently to heaven: A guide to UK cathedrals**
Power, glory, bloodshed, prayer: cathedrals in the UK are as much about human drama as spiritual sanctuary, as much about political wrangling as religious fervor. From Christian beginnings in the Middle Ages through Reformation,...
The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in France, 1917 - 1921
Women Urgently Wanted
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
In March 1917, the first women to be enrolled into the British Army joined the newly formed Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). The women substituted men in roles that the Army considered suitable, thereby freeing men to move up the line. The WAACs served, for example, as cooks, drivers, signallers,...
The Suffering of Women Who Didn't Fit
'Madness' in Britain, 1450–1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
For over 500 years, women have suffered claims of mental decay solely on account of their gender. Frigid, insane, not quite there, a witch in sheep's clothing, labels that have cast her as the fragile species and destroyer of Man.This book reveals attitudes, ideas and responses on what was to be done...
by Ruth Alexandra Symes
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books? How unusual was it that great-uncle...
by Lynn Huggins-Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
This book offers a whistle-stop guide to the history of leathercraft and tanning. The story begins in prehistory when people discovered, perhaps by chance, that skins exposed to smoke or accidentally soaked in autumnal puddles lasted longer. Skins were a valuable resource, used for everything from...
by Luci Gosling
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Drawing on the archives of Mary Evans Picture Library, ‘Images of the Past – The British Seaside’ is a nostalgic promenade through the history of Britain’s seaside resorts from their early genesis as health destinations to their glorious, mid-20th century heyday, subsequent decline and recent...