Pen And Sword History imprint: 193 books
Tracing your Great War Ancestors: The Somme
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
If you want to find out about an ancestor who served on the Somme during the First World War – during the Battle of the Somme in 1916 or at any time during the fighting in this sector of the Western Front – this book is the ideal guide. It provides practical information and advice on how to conduct...
Tracing Your Trade & Craftsman Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Almost all of us have a tradesman or craftsman – a butcher, baker or candlestick maker – somewhere in our ancestry, and Adèle Emm's handbook is the perfect guide to finding out about them – about their lives, their work and the world they lived in. She introduces the many trades and crafts,...
Tracing Your Leeds Ancestors
A Guide for Family & Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Explore the lives of your ancestors in the 'city of 1,000 trades' in this family and local history guide, dedicated to the city of Leeds. Learn how to find out more about the streets where your ancestors lived, where they would have gone to school and church and chapel, how they'd have spent their...
Tracing Your Ancestors' Parish Records
A Guide for Family and Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Parish records are essential sources for family and local historians, and Stuart Raymond's handbook is an invaluable guide to them. He explores and explains the fascinating and varied historical and personal information they contain. His is the first thoroughgoing survey of these resources to be published...
Denby Dale and Upper Denby
Unknown and Unseen
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Denby Dale and Upper Denby – Unknown and Unseen is the last of this ever-popular series of books and includes around 200 previously unpublished photographs of the area. Also included are the stories of three local families, namely the Gaunts, Turtons and Seniors who have a long and fascinating history...
Tracing Your Twentieth-Century Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The recent past is so often neglected when people research their family history, yet it can be one of the most rewarding periods to explore, and so much fascinating evidence is available. The rush of events over the last century and the rapid changes that have taken place in every aspect of life have...
Tracing Your Ancestors Through the Equity Courts
A Guide for Family and Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The records of the Courts of Equity, which dealt with cases of fairness rather than law, are among the most detailed, extensive and revealing of all the legal documents historians can consult, yet they are often neglected. Susan Moore's expert introduction to them opens up this fascinating source...
by Mark Harvey, Martin Jenkinson, Mark Metcalf
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
In addition to being the most bitter industrial dispute the coalminers' strike of 1984/5 was the longest national strike in British history. For a year over 100,000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers, their families and supporters, in hundreds of communities, battled to prevent the decimation...
Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Gallipoli Campaign
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Do you have an ancestor who served in the Gallipoli campaign in the First World War? Perhaps you have thought of visiting the battlefields in Turkey and the monuments that commemorate them, and want to find out exactly where and when your ancestor served and what part he played in the landings and...
by Simon Wills
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
What was a merchant seaman’s life like in the past, what experiences would he have had, what were the ships like that he sailed in, and what risks did he run? Was he shipwrecked, rewarded for bravery, or punished? And how can you find out about an ancestor who was a member of the long British maritime...
Tracing Your Pre-Victorian Ancestors
A Guide to Research Methods for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Tracing Your Pre-Victorian Ancestors is the ideal handbook for family historians whose research has reached back to the early nineteenth century and are finding it difficult to go further. John Wintrip guides readers through all the steps they can take in order to delve even more deeply into the past.
Carrying...
Tracing Your Nonconformist Ancestors
A Guide for Family and Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
We all have Nonconformist ancestors. In the mid-nineteenth century almost half of the English population were Nonconformists. And there were very few villages where there was not at least one Nonconformist chapel. Local and family historians need to be aware of the diversity of Nonconformity, and...
The Home Front in World War Two
Keep Calm and Carry On
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
This book brings an era to life with vivid stories and information from those who were there. During World War Two, 90% of the British population remained civilians. The War affected daily life more than any other war had done before. The majority of British people faced this will fortitude, courage...
Conscientious Objectors of the First World War
A Determined Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
The story of conscientious objection in Britain begins in 1916, when conscription was introduced for the first time. Some 16,000 men — the first conscientious objectors — refused conscription because they believed on grounds of conscience that it was wrong to kill and wrong of any government to...