Pen And Sword History imprint: 193 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The 1790s is one of the most critical decades in the history of modern Ireland. The decade witnessed the birth of the modern ideology of separatist Irish republicanism, the creation of the Orange Order, and the greatest bloodletting in modern Irish history in the form of the 1798 rebellion. In the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2019
The history of sexuality in Ireland remains relatively understudied when compared with the more well-worn paths of political and military history, but that is not to say that it has never been considered. Now, in the fourth installment of the 'Irish perspectives' collaboration between Pen and Sword...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
In the twenty-first century there are two jurisdictions on the island of Ireland, and two very different heads of state represent the populations of Ireland and Northern Ireland respectively: the elected presidency of the republic, and the hereditary monarchy of the United Kingdom. But the idea of...
Menus, Munitions and Keeping the Peace
The Home Front Diaries of Gabrielle West 1914 - 1917
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
When Gabrielle West wrote diaries about her war to send to her much missed favorite brother in India she had no idea that a hundred years later they would be of interest to anyone. Soon after the outbreak of the First World War, Vicar’s daughter Gabrielle joined the Red Cross and worked as a volunteer...
by Caroline Jowett
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
As the place where prisoners, male and female, awaited trial, execution or transportation Newgate was Britain’s most feared gaol for over 700 years. It probably best known today from the novels of Charles Dickens including Barnaby Rudge and Great Expectations.
But there is much is more to...
by Simon Webb
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
There is an ancient and quite baseless myth that the use of torture has never been legal in Britain. This old wives' tale arose because torture had been neither endorsed nor forbidden by either statute or common law. In other words; the law has, until the late twentieth century, never had anything...
Voyages from the Past
A History of passengers at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
A social history of sea travel from the passengers' perspective, encompassing all walks of life and vessels departing from a variety of UK ports. Simon Wills tells the stories of ordinary people who travelled by sea between 1600 and 1940, from early Ameri
Entertaining the Braganzas
When Queen Maria of Portugal visited William Stephens in 1788
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Maria I of Portugal was a monarch with absolute power. William Stephens was the illegitimate son of a Cornish servant girl; he sailed for Lisbon at the age of fifteen to become one of the richest industrialists in Europe. The contrast between these two people could not have been greater – they were...
Forgotten Royal Women
The King and I
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
Great women are hidden behind great men, or so they say, and no man is greater than the king. For centuries, royal aunts, cousins, sisters and mothers have watched history unfold from the shadows, their battlefields the bedchamber or the birthing room, their often short lives remembered only through...
Uzbekistan
An Experience of Cultural Treasures to Colour
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
From the blue and gold splendors of Samarkand to the holy city of Bukhara, the architectural heritage of Uzbekistan is simply extraordinary.
Over the 2,000 year history of the Silk Road, its fertile oases have attracted countless travelers and conquerors who have profoundly made their mark...
Myths That Shaped Our History
From Magna Carta to the Battle of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
All nations and peoples have a body of legendary tales and semi-historical episodes which explain who they are and help to define their place in the world. The British are no exception and in this book Simon Webb explores some of the most well-known episodes from British history; stories which tell...
Julius Caesar's Disease
A New Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
It is generally accepted as a historical fact that Julius Caesar suffered from epilepsy, an illness which in classical times was sometimes associated with divinely bestowed genius. The ancient sources describe several episodes when, sometimes at critical junctures, one of the most famous military...
Same Sex Love 1700-1957
A History and Research Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Family history is often seen as the stories of people who were part of a traditional family unit, married to someone of the opposite gender, had children and lived their lives as 'normally' as possible. But what of the relatives who could not accept that this was the life for them, and were attracted...
Tales from the Big House: Normanby Hall
400 years of its history and people
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Tales from the Big House: Normanby Hall tells the story of a place known perhaps today mainly as the home where Samantha Cameron grew up, but historically it has been the seat of the Sheffield family, whose most famous member was arguably the Duke of Buckingham in the seventeenth century. As with...