Pen And Sword History imprint: 193 books
Evacuees
Children's Lives on the WW2 Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
On the outbreak of the Second World War, during the first week of September 1939 over three million people were evacuated. Operation Pied Piper was the largest ever transportation of people across Britain, and most of those moved to safety in the countryside were schoolchildren.
Social historian...
British Concentration Camps
A Brief History from 1900-1975
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
For many of us, the very expression ‘Concentration Camp’ is inextricably linked to Nazi Germany and the horrors of the Holocaust. The idea of British concentration camps is a strange and unsettling one. It was however the British, rather than the Germans, who were the chief driving force behind...
Commuters
The History of a British Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Before the Industrial Revolution, everyone lived within short walking distance of their workplace. However, all of this has now changed and many people commute large distances to work, often taking around one hour in each direction. We are now used to being stuck in traffic, crammed onto a train,...
by David Hey
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
South Yorkshire has some of the most varied countryside in England, ranging from the Pennine moors and the wooded hills and valleys in the west to the estate villages on the magnesian limestone escarpment and the lowlands in the east. Each of these different landscapes has been shaped by human activities...
Ribbons Among the Rajahs
A History of British Women in India Before the Raj
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
From the mid-eighteenth century onwards, British women started traveling in any numbers to the East Indies, mostly to accompany husbands, brothers or fathers. Very little about them is recorded from the earlier years, about the remarkable journeys that they made and what drove them to travel those...
by John D Grainger
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Syria (which in its historical wider sense includes modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine and Jordan) has always been at the centre of events of world importance. It was in this region that pastoral-stock rearing, settled agriculture and alphabetic writing were invented (and the dog domesticated)....
Images of the Past: Wembley
The History of the Iconic Twin Towers and the Events They Witnessed
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
It was the field of dreams, the birthplace of legends, the hallowed home of our sporting gods. Historic Wembley Stadium, with its iconic Twin Towers, was truly the most revered of venues.
Until the Millennium, when the world-renowned colossus was demolished to make way for its futuristic replacement,...
Clan Fabius, Defenders of Rome
A History of the Republic's Most Illustrious Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
The history of the Fabii Maximii is in many ways that of the Roman Republic. In the legends and historical scraps that survived the Republic, the members of the Fabius clan were, more often than not, the hammers that forged the empire. Few families contributed more to the survival and success of the...
Guildhall
City of London
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
This is the first ever comprehensive history, guide and companion to the Guildhall, City of London.
After the Romans deserted Londinium, where and when does London’s history restart? The answer lies within the highly visible, but rarely seen, ceremonial centre of the City of London: Guildhall.
This...
by Carole Mcentee-Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
Stalkers, bigamy, murders, domestic violence, hard work, continuous childbearing, starvation, illegal abortions, suicides. What was the reality of life for women in the masculine environment of an emerging steel town? Steel manufacturing began in Frodingham in 1890 and as agricultural workers came...
by Diane Wordsworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
When John Cadbury came to Birmingham in 1824, he sold tea, coffee and drinking chocolate in a small shop on Bull Street. Drinking chocolate was considered a healthy alternative to alcohol, something Cadbury, a Quaker, was keen to encourage.In 1879, the Cadburys moved to Bournville and created their...
Creating Hitler's Germany
The Birth of Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Germany's defeat in the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles that followed were national disasters, with far-reaching consequences not just for the country but for the world itself.
Weaving the stories of three German families from the beginning of Germany’s territorial aspirations...
by Jules Harper, Aurora von Goeth
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Innovator. Tyrant. Consummate showman. Passionate lover of women.
After the death of King Louis XIII in 1643, the French crown went to his first-born son and heir, four-year old Louis XIV. In the extraordinary seventy-two years that followed, Louis le Grand - France’s self-styled ‘Sun King’...
The Duke of Monmouth
Life and Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
He was the illegitimate son of a king, a gallant and brave military hero, charming, handsome and well loved both within the court and with women; James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, had the life many would have envied in the seventeenth century.
Monmouth lived in an age that was on the cusp of modernity....