The History Press: 2510 books
Written in Blood
A Cultural History of the British Vampire
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A modern guide to vampires, where every page is truly written in bloodVampires, those chilling supernatural creatures of the night—do they really exist? The British Isles has a remarkable association with the realms of the undead, from the 19th-century world of Croglin Grange, Varney the Vampire,...
by Linda Stratmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Middlesex Murders brings together numerous murderous tales, some of which were little known outside the county, and others which made national headlines. Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Middlesex. They include the murder...
Eat Thy Neighbour
A History of Cannibalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
This study puts cannibalism into its social and historical perspective. Even in an age when almost nothing is sacred, numerous prohibitions surround the subject, and yet a dark fascination with the subject remains. Characters include Sweeny Todd, Jeffrey Dahmer, Armin Meiwes, and much to the pleasure...
by Neil R. Storey
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
Jostling for position in this cornucopia of the criminal and the curious are diverse tales of baby farmers, garrotters, murderers, poisoners, prostitutes, pimps, rioters and rebels. Other tales tell of those who walked the poverty-stricken streets of 'the abyss', trying to earn a few honest coppers...
Murder at the Inn
A History of Crime in Britain's Pubs and Hotels
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
The first book to explore the fascinating and dark history of England's pubs and hotelsIn which pub did the Krays murder George Cornell and so achieve notoriety as Britain's most feared gangsters? Where is the hostelry in which Jack the Ripper's victims drank? How did Burke and Hare befriend their...
Dickens' Dreadful Almanac
A Terrible Event for Every Day of the Year
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Inspired by the gory and sensational publications of the Victorian era, these tales collected by Charles Dickens and his staff between 1850 and 1855 features a beautifully engraved heading for every month In among the pages of Dickens' monthly supplement to Household Words lurks a very strange history....
Joan of Arc
Maid, Myth and History
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Joan of Arc, born in Domremy in France in 1412, began to hear voices when she was 13, and, believing they were directives from God, followed them—to the French court, to battle to wrest France from the English in the Hundred Years War, and to defeat and capture. She was put on trial for heresy,...
by David Brandon, Alan Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
London’s Underground is associated with a multitude of ghostly stories and sightings. Particular stations and abandoned lines, many of which are in close proximity to burial sites from centuries ago, have given rise to unexplained events. This chilling book reveals well-known and hitherto unpublished...
Divided Union
A Concise History of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The Divided Union is an account of five of the most dramatic and tragic years in the history of the U.S. The families and neighbors of a fledgling superpower were pitted against each other in a war concerned with the most fundamental of human motivations: freedom, identity, and nation. While great...
De Gaulle
The Man Who Defied Six US Presidents
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Containing previously unpublished material from the Paris and Washington archives, an all new, controversial account of France's role post-World War II Throughout D-Day, French soliders were mysteriously absent during the invasion on their own soil. Although General Charles De Gaulle commanded 400,000...
Divided Kingdom
The Spanish Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
There is little available on the dramatic and colourful history of the Spanish monarchy. Experienced author and historian John Van der Kiste provides a readable and anecdotal look at one of the key European dynasties from the nineteenth century to the present. He begins with the wayward, ill-educated...
by Guido Knopp
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Josef Goebbels, Hermann Goring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolph Hess, Albert Speer and Karl Donitz. These were the men who smoothed Adolf Hitler's path to power and became the perpetrators of a reign of terror unparalleled in history. They were the supporters and executives at Hitler's regime, carrying...
The Golden Lane
How Missouri Women Gained the Vote and Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
It was June 14, 1916, a warm, sticky Wednesday morning. The Democratic Convention would soon meet in St. Louis. Inside the Jefferson Hotel, the men ate breakfast and met with their committees. Outside the hotel, thousands of women quietly took their places along both sides of Locust Street. They stood...
Medieval Pirates
Pirates, Raiders And Privateers 1204-1453
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
In the Medieval Period the English Channel was an especially perilous stretch of water. It had two distinct (and often conflicting) functions. It was a rich commercial seaway, on which the rising economy of the known world depended. At the same time it was a wide, lawless, political frontier between...