The History Press imprint: 4918 books
In Search of a Better Life
British and Irish Migration
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
This book of new research will challenge the traditional narratives of Irish migration, the stories of oppression and exile that form an essential part of the existing literature. It will argue that most of the migrants were not forced by circumstances to leave their country but looked forward to...
by Ian Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Generation after generation has come up with new forms of punishment to inflict on those guilty (and sometimes innocent) of crimes against property and person. From the stocks and pillory, to flogging, ducking and transportation to foreign lands, this volume brings to life those turbulent times of...
Keeping Quiet
Paul Nixon: The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
From Gower to Flintoff, Waugh to Vaughan, Cronje to Pietersen, Paul Nixon has shared a dressing room with some of the most evocative names in international and domestic cricket—and often enraged them on the field of play. The wicketkeeper, known as his sport’s most prolific "sledger,"...
1970s London
Discovering the Capital
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Following a sheltered childhood and a sequestered education in Cambridge, and having missed out on the swinging sixties, Alec Forshaw was ready for a dose of the wider world. London in the early 1970s was where the lights shone brightest. In reality, it was still a city struggling to find its post-war...
Mrs Zigzag
The Extraordinary Life of a Secret Agent's Wife
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
When Betty Farmer married double agent Eddie Chapman, Agent Zigzag, she knew her life would never be ordinary. Yet even before her marriage to Eddie, her life involved incendiary bombs, serial killers, film roles and love affairs with flying aces. After her marriage, she coped with Eddie’s mistresses,...
by Alison Plowden
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
The first volume of Plowden's acclaimed Elizabethan quartet charts the first 25 years of Elizabeth's life Alison Plowden's captivating portrait of the young Elizabeth Tudor, bringing to life her many identities as ruler, woman, and politician, is a triumph of narrative history. Elizabeth I is perhaps...
by Graeme Kent
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Boxing has a long and eventful history and its drama, excitement and humor are covered in this fascinating account of the noble—and sometimes ignoble—art all over the world. It covers the bare-knuckle days when the Duke of Cumberland callously abandoned his protégé Jack Broughton when the latter...
Heroes of Postman's Park
Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Victorian London
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Postman's Park, London, is a Victorian monument containing 54 ceramic plaques commemorating 62 individuals, each of whom lost their own life while attempting to save another. Every plaque tells a tragic and moving story, but the short narratives do little...
Final Over
The Cricketers of Summer 1914
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
August, 1914 brought an end to the "Golden Age" of English cricket. At least 210 professional cricketers (out of a total of 278 registered) signed up to fight, of whom 34 were killed. Cricket stands as both a statistical, and very human, representation of the price paid in British blood...
by Kelly Kazek
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Auburn is not just the home to a world-class university; it is also the home of a storied community with deep roots in Alabama history. Join author and Auburn University alumna Kelly Kazek as she tracks the lesser-known history of both the city and the school. In this diverse collection of lost, forgotten...
Shooting 007
And Other Celluloid Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A veteran of seven Bond films reveals behind-the-scenes stories of the popular film series—with a foreword by Roger Moore, and many previously unpublished photosBeloved cameraman and director of photography Alec Mills, a veteran of seven James Bond movies, tells the inside story of his 20 years...
Hitler's Spy Princess
The Extraordinary Life of Stephanie von Hohenlohe
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Throughout her life, Stephanie von Hohenlohe (1891-1972) was notorious as a secret go-between and even a professional blackmailer. Although she was the illegitimate daughter of a Jewish woman from Prague and a Jewish moneylender, Stephanie always claimed to be of pure Aryan descent. A shameless social...
Guide to Middle Earth
Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2004
This absorbing insight into the mind behind Middle-earth will introduce or remind readers of the abundance that exists in Tolkien's thought and imagination. Interweaving sections explore The Lord of the Rings and its history; the key themes, concepts and images in Tolkein's work; the people and places...
Jack the Ripper
The Suspects
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
The latest research on the ultimate whodunnit by the world's leading society for Ripper studies The Whitechapel Murders of 1888 remain unsolved and hundreds of theories have been suggested as to the killer's identity. However, many of the suggestions naming the infamous Ripper remain ill-informed...