The History Press: 2510 books
King John
England's Evil King?
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Before his death in 1216, King John's desperate exploitation of his subjects for ever more money had turned him into the mythical monster of Hollywood legend. In contrast to his brother Richard, he appeared incompetent in battle, failing to defend Normandy (1202–04), and was unsuccessful in recovering...
by Robert Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Now available in paperback, the first book to chronicle the history of the Knights Templar in Scotland, from 1127 to the present, with a new theory on Templar participation at the Battle of Bannockburn Places and books such as Rosslyn Chapel and The Da Vinci Code have focused attention on Scotland's...
Conqueror's Son
Duke Robert Curthose: Thwarted King
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
This study redresses the balance of opinion on Robert Curthose. There is no doubt that Robert was rebellious, but the fact remains that the throne of England was meant to pass to him on the death of William the Conqueror. William Rufus and Henry I were thus usurpers, which casts a new light on English...
How Fat Was Henry VIII?
And 101 Other Questions on Royal History
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
Most of us know that Queen Victoria ruled over a great Empire, that King John signed the Magna Carta, and that Harold was killed at the Battle of Hastings. But this book, for inquisitive visitors to the royal palaces and monarchy buffs everywhere, takes us to the heart of the matter, and tells us...
by Alison Plowden
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
A personal rather than political history examining the origins of the family and interweaving the lives of the five Tudor monarchs with lesser-known branches of the tree The Tudors ruled England for little more than a century, but no other dynasty has so impressed itself on the popular consciousness....
Quack Doctor
Historical Remedies for All Your Ills
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
From the harangues of mountebanks to the dubious advertisements in Victorian newspapers, quackery sports a colorful history. Featuring entertaining advertisements from historical newspapers, this book investigates the inventive ways in which quack remedies were promoted – and whether the people...
Chloroform
The Quest for Oblivion
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Right up until the 19th century, physicians and philosophers regarded sleep as a state of near-oblivion in which there was no mental activity, a kind of halfway stage between wakefulness and death. For the Victorians, therefore, when anaesthesia was first practised, it was commonly seen as traumatic—for...
Katherine Swynford
The History of a Medieval Mistress
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Katherine Swynford—sexual temptress or powerful woman at the center of the medieval court? This book unravels the many myths and legacies of this fascinating woman, to show her in a whole new light. Katherine was sister-in-law to Geoffrey Chaucer, and governess to the daughters of Blanche of Lancaster...
Kingmaker's Sisters
Six Powerful Women in the Wars of the Roses
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Based on archival sources that have not previously appeared in print, this history of the Wars of the Roses is told from the perspective of the women behind some of the key participants as the conflict between York and Lancaster ebbed and flowed. An examination of the six sisters of Warwick the Kingmaker...
Queen and Mrs Thatcher
An Inconvenient Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This is the remarkable story of how the two most powerful women in Britain met and disliked each other on sight. For over a decade they quietly waged a war against each other on both a personal and political stage, disagreeing on key issues including sanctions against South Africa, the Miner’s Strike...
by E. E. Rice
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Of all those who have set out to conquer the world, Alexander the Great came closest to finishing the job. The son of King Philip II of Macedonia, from an early age he was taught that he was a descendant of Achilles and Hercules and was conditioned for conquest and kingly glory. Alexander was educated...
Today Is a Good Day to Fight
The Indian Wars and the Conquest of the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Blood, guts, dust, and hatred—this is the real history of the American West, from the initial penetration of the region by settlers and prospectors in the 1840s through the end of the Indian Wars in the 1890s. It explains the history of white-Indian conflict from the military point of view, showing...
by Richard Oram
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The history of the Scottish monarchy can be presented as a long tale of triumph over adversity, characterized by the personal achievements of its truly remarkable rulers who transformed their fragile kingdom into the master of northern Britain. This volume charts that process, tracing it through the...
Live and Let Spy
BRIXMIS - The Last Cold War Mission
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
BRIXMIS (The British Commander-in-Chief’s Mission to the Group Soviet Forces of Occupation in Germany) is one of the most little-known and covert elite units of the British Army. They were dropped in behind "enemy lines" 1- months after the Second World War had ended and remained operating...