The History Press: 2510 books
Ipswich Witch
Mary Lackland and the Suffolk Witch Hunts
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Against the backdrop of the largest witch hunt in English history, this book is both an investigation of a miscarriage of justice over 350 years old and a recreation of East Anglia as it once was. Ipswich, faced by the extreme challenges of war, religious dissent, poverty, sickness, and the threat...
Texas Baseball
A Lone Star Diamond History from Town Teams to the Big Leagues
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
From pioneering superstars like Tris Speaker and Rogers Hornsby and Negro League standouts Smokey Joe Williams and Willie Well to present-day luminaries like Nolan Ryan, Texas has played a crucial role in the evolution of the national pastime. The Lone Star love of baseball stretches back to the Civil...
by Natasha Sheldon
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The Little Book of Leicestershire is a compendium full of information which will make you say, "I never knew that!" Contained within is a plethora of entertaining facts about Leicestershire's famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its literary, artistic and sporting achievements,...
Marblehead's Pygmalion
Finding the Real Agnes Surriage
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Agnes Surriage, it turns out, was more Pygmalion than Cinderella. Her role models were the fiercely independent “codfish widows,” wives of the early Marblehead fishermen who managed home and family seven months a year without their husbands. In Agnes’s version of My Fair Lady, she had to act as...
by Fiona Collins
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
This is a collection of 30 tales from the ancient lore of the modern county borough of Wrexham, including local legends, folk tales, stories of magic and mystery, and stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Wales is especially rich in the folklore of place, and this collection brings...
Whose Past Is It Anyway?
The Ulster Covenant, the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Ireland is on the cusp of what has become known as the "Decade of Centenaries." In this unique book, we gain an insight into three of these centenaries—the signing of the Ulster Covenant, the Easter Rising, and the Battle of the Somme—from across the spectrum of political allegiances...
SS Hunter Battalions
The Hidden History of the Nazi Resistance Movement 1944-5
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Conventional wisdom suggests that the Allies and the Soviets were the only side in the Second World War to support resistance movements. However, based on recently-released archival sources, "The SS Hunter Battalions" shows that Hitler had his own version of the SOE and the OSS, and that...
by Nick Corble
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
The story of the narrowboats' transition from workhorses of industry to today's leisure craft Bright and colorful, slow and easy, narrowboats are seen today as the epitome of a peaceful life and a wonderful way to get away from the stresses of modern living. Although true, this is a far cry from their...
Big Ben
The Bell, the Clock and the Tower
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2005
Big Ben is perhaps the most famous clock in the world. This new book tells its story, from its conception in the 1830s, after fire destroyed the anicent Palace of Westminster, to its establishment as the national timepiece and the symbol of Britain up to the present day. Big Ben is a character, an...
Knowing Their Place
The Intellectual Life of Women in the 19th Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
This book is comprehensive account of the public, private, and intellectual life of Irish women in the Victorian age. In particular, this book looks at the steady progress of girls and women within the education system, their gradual involvement in intellectual life through amateur societies (such...
by Anton Rippon
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Anton Rippon is a Derby boy through and through. He was born just before Christmas 1944, his entrance into the world hastened after his mother fell over a milk churn in the blackout. At the time of his birth, just down the road a Derby Corporation bus driver was recapturing an escaped German prisoner...
Skipping to School
Memoirs of a Liverpool Girlhood, 1937-1948
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Skipping to School is the true story of a childhood spent in Liverpool before, during, and after World War II. It recalls the fabric of everyday life on the home front and the impact of war on both family life and the local community. At home in Walton, Doris and her friends learned slogans such...
Edie's Tale
Growing up in Darlaston
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Features a personal memoir of an ordinary working-class woman who grew up in the back streets of Darlaston between the wars. Illustrated with family photos and 25 images of between-the-wars Darlaston, this book captures the spirit of an era.
by Graham Phythian
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
In 1940, the Manchester and Salford Blitz saw the city and its surroundings targeted by the German Luftwaffe. The most destructive attack was launched in December 1940; it is remembered today as "the Christmas Blitz." Nearly 800 people lost their lives, and thousands more were injured, in...