Pen And Sword History imprint: 193 books

by Denise Bates
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016

Thanks to digitisation, newspapers from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century have become an indispensable and accessible source for researchers. Through their pages, historians with a passion for a person or a place or a time or a topic can rediscover forgotten details and gain new insights...
by Kieran Hughes, Maureen Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017

‘Proud to be British’ is the perfect book for everyone who lives in our wonderful country. Here the British will discover what they already suspected, and that is that many of the GREAT historical figures of all time were British, many of the GREATEST inventions were British, as well as many other...

Women and the Gallows 1797–1837

Unfortunate Wretches

by Naomi Clifford
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017

In the last four decades of the Georgian era 131 women went to the gallows. What were their crimes? And why, unlike most convicted felons, were they not reprieved? Women and the Gallows 1797 – 1837 brings new insights into their lives and the events that led them to their deaths, and includes...
by Glynis Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016

Interest in the theft of cucumbers initially took precedence over news that war had been declared, but Stockport rallied quickly. Wakes week was cancelled, the local 6th Battalion of the Cheshires went to the Front and the town transformed half of its schools into much-needed military hospitals. Admirably,...

The Real World of Victorian Steampunk

Steam Planes and Radiophones

by Simon Webb
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019

In the last few decades, steampunk has blossomed from being a rather obscure and little-known subgenre of science fiction into a striking and distinctive style of fashion, art, design and even music. It is in the written word however that steampunk has its roots and in this book Simon Webb explores...

Post-War Childhood

Growing up in the not-so-friendly ‘Baby Boomer’ Years

by Simon Webb
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017

Many British baby boomers are very nostalgic about a supposed golden age; a vanished world when children were generally freer, happier and healthier than they are now. They wandered about all day; only returning home at teatime when they were hungry. Nobody worried about health and safety or 'stranger...

Struggle and Suffrage in Southend-on-Sea

Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality

by Dee Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019

While Southend-on-Sea, like many seaside towns, may not have been at the forefront of the struggle for suffrage and equal rights in the lives of women between 1850 and 1950, there are surprisingly famous names linked to the town and its women. Novelist Rebecca West, living in nearby Leigh-on-Sea during...

Gandhi, Smuts and Race in the British Empire

Of Passive and Violent Resistance

by Peter Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017

Towards the end of 1906, a meeting took place between two emerging giants of the age, Mohandas K. Gandhi and General Jan Christian Smuts. United under the same empire, but separated by distance and culture, Smuts was born in the Cape Colony, and Gandhi in Porbandar, a duchy of the Indian province...

Angel Meadow

Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

by Dean Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016

'It is all free fighting here. Even some of the windows do not open, so it is useless to cry for help. Dampness and misery, violence and wrong, have left their handwriting in perfectly legible characters on the walls.' - Manchester Guardian, 1870 Step into the Victorian underworld of Angel...

Struggle and Suffrage in Huddersfield

Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality

by Vivien Teasdale
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018

If you’ve ever wondered how life changed so much for women over the hundred years between 1850 and 1950, this is a great introduction. During this period, women went from being seen as merely possessions of their fathers or husbands to being individuals who had the right to own property, to enter...
by Brian Elliot
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015

There have been many books published about the coal mining industry of Britain but relatively few about the miners themselves. This book is unique in that it concentrates on the miner, his family and his work through a careful selection of illustrations. Although most of the images are photographic,...

The Ingenious Victorians

Weird and Wonderful Ideas from the Age of Innovation

by John Wade
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016

We all know that some of the greatest inventions came from the Victorian age, the successors of which are still with us today. But this book is not entirely about those. It’s more about some of the weird and wonderful inventions, ideas and projects – some successful, others less so – that have...
by Chris Ransted
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018

For this book, Chris Ransted has researched some of the lesser known events and personalities relating to the early years of Explosive Ordnance Disposal in the UK. Daring acts of cold blooded bravery, and ingenuity in the face of life threatening technical challenges, are recounted throughout the...
by Brian Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017

Mining disasters attracted the attention of the public and the press during the twentieth century, just as they had done a few generations earlier. This interest was made even more immediate and certainly more graphic through the increasing use of photographic images and film; and the impact of broadcasting...
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