The History Press imprint: 4918 books
by David Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This richly illustrated history explores every aspect of life in Leeds.This new history of Leeds covers all the main political, social, and economic developments of the city: The Harrying of the North devastated the surrounding area in 1069; the Civil War saw a battle fought in the town itself; cholera...
by Peter Neal
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
The Story of Southampton is a long overdue general history of the city, from earliest times to the present, concluding with comments on the issues, challenges, and opportunities that the 21st century will present. Neither does the author neglect the city's architectural development and heritage. Rather...
by Stuart Hylton
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
The Little Book of Berkshire is an intriguing, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of places, people, and events in the city, from its earliest origins to the present day. Here you can read about the important contributions Berkshire has made to the history of the nation, and meet some of the great...
A-Z of Curious Bristol
Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Bristol's history is packed with nooks and crannies, peculiar customs, and curious characters. This book explains why the vicar in one church goes on an annual trek to peer down a manhole; why captains of industry sing an 18-verse song in memory of Queen Elizabeth I; and how the Flower of Bristol...
Tay Bridge Disaster
The People's Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
One hundred and thirty-five years after the event, the Tay Bridge Disaster remains the single most catastrophic collapse of a British engineering structure. The fateful day in 1879 shook Britain and the world of engineering to their core and sent a nation into mourning for the seventy-five souls lost...
After the Berlin Wall
Putting Two Germanys Back Together Again
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Documenting an incredible unification in the history of Europe, this account examines the merging of East and West Germany following the destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1990. Describing how a totalitarian, atheist, and communist system was married with a democratic, Christian, and capitalist one,...
Frogley, Cockhead and Crutch
A Celebration of Humorous Names from Oxfordshire's History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Willy Cockhead had to live with his name. So too did countless others lumbered with ridiculous names, safely hidden away in Oxford's records and censuses—until now. And what names! Some rhyme (Dick Thick), a few are odd (Silly Waters), others you have to say out loud (Rhoda Turtle) and some are...
Female Few
Spitfire Heroines
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Through the darkest days of the Second World War, an elite group of courageous, gifted women risked their lives as courier pilots, flying Lancaster Bombers, Spitfires and many other aircraft in hundreds of perilous missions across the country. In The Female Few, five of these astonishingly brave women...
BAC One-Eleven
The Whole Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
One of the bestselling aircraft of British civil aviation, the BAC 1-11 took to the skies for the first time in August 1963, with an order book for 60 aircraft. More than half the orders were from the United States, an unprecedented situation for a British civil aircraft. The only aircraft wholly...
by Norman Bartlam
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The Little Book of Birmingham 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. Here we find out about the city's most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters,...
Fair Lawn, New Jersey
Historic Tales from Settlement to Suburb
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
In Fair Lawn, New Jersey, the layered heritage is clear from the mix of Native American, Dutch and English names adorning its street signs. Author Jane Lyle Diepeveen traces Fair Lawn’s history from its origins as a settlement at Sloterdam, a site of the developing Dutch Colonial architecture, to the...
Irish Heart, English Blood
The Making of Youghal
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Youghal town, in County Cork, has a long history which predates most others in Ireland. The area was settled by Vikings, and later the town was fortified with walls built by the Normans in the 1100s. For centuries after, the town was a hub of trading activity and a vital port during the early stages...
Spike Island
Saints, Felons and Famine
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
After 14 centuries of military and ecclesiastical heritage, 2005 saw the then-Justice Minister Michael McDowell put in place proposals to turn Spike Island into Ireland’s Alcatraz through the construction of a €70 million super-prison. Spike Island, situated proudly in Cobh Harbour, has a long...
Heroes, Scoundrels and Angels
Fairview Cemetery of Gainesville, Texas
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Local historian Ron Melugin has roamed this frontier Texas cemetery for over a decade, collecting fascinating stories about the “residents” laid to rest there. Spanning the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these tales of extraordinary people with ordinary causes of death and ordinary people...