The History Press imprint: 4918 books
Keeping Up Appearances
Fashion and Class Between the Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Drawing on a range of original sources, this history vividly records the experiences of clothes selection during the interwar years, revealing the importance of dress codes to both men and women whether at home, work, or at leisure
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The British have always been concerned about...
Great War Fashion
Tales from the History Wardrobe
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The story of World War I women as told through their changing wardrobes, from silk stockings to factory wearWe often talk of "stepping into someone else's shoes." Walking back in time a century ago, which shoes would they be? A pair of silk sensations costing thousands of pounds designed...
by Beatrice Doran
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Donnybrook is one of the most iconic areas of South Dublin, a prosperous and peaceful suburb that is well-known as the being the heartland of Leinster Rugby. It derived its name, however, from the violence and carousing that were a regular feature of the area in the 1800s, and this book tells the...
Keeping Their Place
Domestic Service in the Country House 1700-1920
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
In 1851 there were over a million servants in Britain. This book reveals first-hand tales of put-upon servants, who often had to rise hours before dawn to lay fires, heat water and prepare meals for their employers, and then work into the small hours. Yet there are also heartwarming stories of personal...
The Bowery
A History of Grit, Graft and Grandeur
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Originally a Lenape trail running the length of Manhattan Island, the Bowery has become one of the most notorious thoroughfares in America. Developed in stages by the Dutch, British and then Americans, this stretch of street has continually risen from its own ashes, interminably experiencing periods...
Boulder
A Sense of Time and Place Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Journey with Silvia Pettem through Boulder’s history in Boulder: A Sense of Time & Place Revisited. Watch the evolution from a frontier mining town to the “Athens of the West.” Learn of murder and bootleggers in the 1920s, survive the Great Depression and follow Boulder’s postwar growing pains...
Provincetown
A History of Artists and Renegades in a Fishing Village
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Between the Portland Gale of 1898 and the start of the Second World War, Provincetown, Massachusetts, was transformed from a rough-and-tumble whaling and fishing village into an anything-goes destination for free-loving artists and tourists. When the Great War curtailed European travel, droves of artists...
Animal Kingdom
A Natural History in 100 Objects
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Life on earth has existed for 500 million years. In that time, the evolution and natural selection of species has formed a diversity of life rich in incredible methods of survival, reproduction, and adaption. From penis worms, which existed 508 million years ago, to threatened species such as the...
by Margaret Drinkall
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Taking you through the year day by day, The Sheffield Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from different periods of history. Events include matters of national importance such as the Coronation of George IV, as well as local incidents such as the Sheffield...
by Rupert Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
The Little Book of Surrey is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic, or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. The county's most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters, royal connections, and...
Queen Victoria's Gene
Haemophilia and the Royal Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Queen Victoria's son, Prince Leopold, died from haemophilia, but no member of the royal family before his generation had suffered from the condition. Medically, there are only two possibilities: either one of Victoria's parents had a 1 in 50,000 random mutation, or Victoria was the illegitimate child...
Boy Republic
Patrick Pearse and Radical Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Patrick Pearse, teacher, poet, and one of the executed leaders of the 1916 Rising, has long been a central figure in Irish history. The book provides a radically new interpretation of Patrick Pearse's work in education, and examines how his work as a teacher became a potent political device in preindependent...
by Herman Rothman, Helen Fry
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The amazing true story of the British intelligence officer who helped to track down Hitler's last will Herman Rothman arrived in Britain from Germany as a Jewish refugee in the early years of World War II. He joined the British Army and in 1945 was posted to Westertimke and Fallingbostel PoW camps...
by Douglas Pocock
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The Story of Durham traces the evolution of a city that medieval writers likened to Jerusalem, which Ruskin termed one of the wonders of the world, and which Pevsner, more modestly, called one of the architectural experiences of Europe. To Bill Bryson, Durham appeared ‘a perfect little city’ with...