Pen And Sword: 3067 books
by Elizabeth Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Elizabeth Peacock served as MP for Batley and Spen for 14 years and was one of the most outspoken politicians during her time at Westminster.
Famed for her 'no nonsense, just common sense' approach, Elizabeth won many admirers along with a reputation for being difficult. Not afraid to vote against...
The Mighty Healer
Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Verity Holloway’s nineteenth-century cousin Thomas Holloway’s patent medicine empire was so ubiquitous, Charles Dickens commented that if you’d murdered someone with the name Holloway, you’d think their spirit had come back to torment you. Advertising as far away as the pyramids in Giza, it...
The Dark Side of Isaac Newton
Science's Greatest Fraud?
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Isaac Newton was accorded a semi-divine status in the 18th and 19th centuries, whereby his image linked together religion and science. The real human being behind the demi-god image has tended to be lost. He was a person who took credit from others, and crushed the reputations of those to whom he...
The Life of Henrietta Anne
Daughter of Charles I
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Henrietta Anne Stuart, youngest child of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, was born in June 1644 in the besieged city of Exeter at the very height of the English Civil War. The hostilities had separated her parents and her mother was on the run from Parliamentary forces when she gave birth with only...
by John D Grainger
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Between c.350 BC and 30 BC the Mediterranean world was one in which kings ruled. The exceptions were the Greek cities and Roman Italy. But for most of that period neither of these republican areas was central to events. For the crucial centuries between Alexander the Great and the Roman conquest of...
by Jules Harper, Aurora von Goeth
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Innovator. Tyrant. Consummate showman. Passionate lover of women.
After the death of King Louis XIII in 1643, the French crown went to his first-born son and heir, four-year old Louis XIV. In the extraordinary seventy-two years that followed, Louis le Grand - France’s self-styled ‘Sun King’...
The Legitimacy of Bastards
The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising that so many of them had mistresses and illegitimate children. John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, married at the age of twenty to a...
A Peer Among Princes
The Life of Thomas Graham, Victor of Barrosa, Hero of the Peninsular War
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Sir Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, is best known for his exceptional military career. He was one of the Duke of Wellington’s ablest lieutenants during the Peninsular War – he won a great victory against the French at the Battle of Barrosa, conducted the siege of San Sebastian and acted as the duke’s...
Pharaoh Seti I
Father of Egyptian Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Pharaoh Seti I ruled Egypt for only 11 years (1290-1279 BC), but his reign marked a revival of Egyptian military and economic power, as well as cultural and religious life. Seti was born the son of a military officer in northern Egypt, far from the halls of power in Memphis and Thebes. However, when...
The Grand Old Duke of York
A Life of Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany 1763–1827
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Oh, the grand old Duke of York,
He had ten thousand men;
He marched them up to the top of the hill,
And he marched them down again.
And when they were up, they were up,
And when they were down, they were down,
And when they were only half-way up,
They were neither up nor down.
Prince...
Cecily Neville
Mother of Richard III
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Wife to Richard, Duke of York, mother to Edward IV and Richard III, and aunt to the famous ‘Kingmaker’, Richard, Earl of Warwick, Cecily Neville was a key player on the political stage of fifteenth-century Britain England.
Mythologically rumoured to have been known as ‘the Rose of Raby’...
The Duke of Monmouth
Life and Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
He was the illegitimate son of a king, a gallant and brave military hero, charming, handsome and well loved both within the court and with women; James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, had the life many would have envied in the seventeenth century.
Monmouth lived in an age that was on the cusp of modernity....
Emperor Alexander Severus
Rome's Age of Insurrection, AD222-235
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Alexander Severus' is full of controversy and contradictions. He came to the throne through the brutal murder of his cousin, Elagabalus, and was ultimately assassinated himself. The years between were filled with regular uprisings and rebellions, court intrigue (the Praetorian Guard slew their commander...
Emperors of Rome: The Monsters
From Tiberius to Theodora, AD 14–548
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
As with everything else, there were good and bad Roman emperors. The good, like Trajan (98–117), Hadrian (117–138), Antoninus Pius (138–161) and Marcus Aurelius (161–180) were largely civilized and civilizing. The bad, on the other hand, were sometimes nothing less than monsters, exhibiting...