Pen And Sword: 3067 books
London's Airports
Useful Information on Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton, Stansted and City
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
This book is for the passengers and aviation buffs who use London’s main airports. It includes a brief history, plans and photographs for each of the five airports, together with directions and information about gates, security, passport control, shopping, restaurants, car parks and other transport...
Tracing Your Yorkshire Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
This fully revised second edition of Rachel Bellerby’s best-selling guide is essential reading if you want to find out about your Yorkshire ancestors. As well as tracing when your ancestors were born, married and died, she shows you how can explore how they lived, worked and spent their leisure...
Tracing Your East Anglian Ancestors
A Guide For Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
Gill Blanchard’s practical and informative handbook will help you to trace your ancestors in the traditional counties of East Anglia - Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex – and it will give you a fascinating insight into their lives.
As well as guiding the researcher to historical...
Tracing Your Shipbuilding Ancestors
A Guide For Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Anthony Burton's concise and informative guide to British shipbuilding will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about its history or find out about the life of a shipbuilder and his family. In a clear and accessible way he traces its development from the medieval period to its peak...
Broadmoor Revealed
Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A fascinating introduction to the history of Broadmoor: Kate Summerscale, author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. On 27 May 1863, three coaches pulled up at the gates of a new asylum, built amongst the tall, dense pines of Windsor Forest. Broadmoors first patients had arrived. In Broadmoor Revealed,...
by Burton, Pierre
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
On Easter Monday 1917 with a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France seized and held the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front - the muddy scarp of Vimy Ridge. The British had failed to take the Ridge, and so had the French who had lost 150,000...
by David Heathcoat-Amory
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Few are better placed to write on the United Kingdom’s relations with the European Union than David Heathcoat-Amory. As a Member of Parliament, Minister of State and Privy Counselor, he witnessed two Prime Ministers wrestling with the ‘elephant in the room’.
He describes Margaret Thatcher's...
The Private Diaries of Alison Uttley
Author of Little Grey Rabbit, Foreword by Ronald Blythe
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Popular childrens author, Alison Uttley (Little Grey Rabbit and Sam Pig) spent over 40 years writing diaries. Professor Denis Judd, who knew Alison and has previously written her biography, reveals a different side to the writer whose husband committed suicide and whose close relationship with her...
Tracing Your Servant Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
While there are popular and academic books on servants and domestic service, as well as television dramas and documentaries, little attention has been paid to the sources family historians can use to explore the lives and careers of their servant ancestors. Michelle Higgss accessible and authoritative...
Winston Churchill
Portrait of an Unquiet Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Winston Churchill was an extraordinary person - a politician, a statesman, a man of letters and a soldier but it was for his wartime leadership during the Second World War that he is chiefly remembered. In a study of his life, certain bizarre character traits become discernible. He had excessive energy...
Hitler
Dictator or Puppet?
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Written by an authority on Adolf Hitler, this book charts new ground and shows how the writings of a deluded ex-monk, Lanz von Liebenfels and the pseudo-science of Liebenfels and other writers, convinced Hitler that Germany’s destiny was to save the world from a Jewish-Bolshevik conspiracy.
It...
by Nicholas Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Engraved shell-cases, bullet-crucifixes, letter openers and cigarette lighters made of shrapnel and cartridges, miniature airplanes and tanks, talismanic jewelry, embroidery, objects carved from stone, bone and wood – all of these things are trench art, the misleading name given to the dazzling...
by Anna Selby
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Everything you need to know about opera in one handy guide. Part of our best-selling Pocket Guide series, The Pocket Guide to Opera contains A-Z synopses of operas and biographies of the characters, lyricists and composers. The book features the history of opera, setting it in the context of its day...
Women’s Lives
Researching Women’s Social History 1800-1939
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Women’s lives have traditionally gone unrecorded in history. But housewives, factory girls and servants all had their own distinctive voices, and, if you know where to look, there are plenty of sources to explore.
Jennifer Newby’s guide to women's social history between 1800 and 1939 includes...