Pen And Sword History imprint: 193 books
The Komnene Dynasty
Byzantium's Struggle for Survival 1057–1185
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
The 128-year dynasty of the Komneni (1057 to 1185) was the last great epoch of Byzantium, when the empire had to fend off Turkish and Norman foes simultaneously. Starting with the extremely able Alexios I, and unable now to count on help from the West, the Komneni played their strategic cards very...
Landru’s Secret
The Deadly Seductions of France’s Lonely Hearts Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
On 12 April 1919, the Paris police arrested a bald, short, 50-year-old swindler at his apartment near the Gare du Nord, acting on a lead from a humble housemaid. A century later, Henri Désiré Landru remains the most notorious and enigmatic serial killer in French criminal history, a riddle at the...
by Cathy Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Cathy Hunt examines the lives of Coventry women throughout one extraordinary century of change. The result of her detailed research is a book packed with stories of what it was like to be a woman between 1850 and 1950.
During these years, women broke through barriers so that future generations...
by David F Walford, Catherine Rayner
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
This lighthearted but deeply researched book offers interest and guidance to walkers, social historians and lovers of the Bronte family, their lives and works.
Set in and around the town of Haworth it gives a dual introduction to walkers and lovers of literature who can explore this unique...
by Nigel Blundell
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2019
This book is a catalog of disaster – literally. Within its pages are the major man-made calamities that shocked the world throughout the twentieth century.
It was a period during which the power and scale of industrialization changed the planet, an unforeseen consequence being the creation...
by John D Grainger
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Between c.350 BC and 30 BC the Mediterranean world was one in which kings ruled. The exceptions were the Greek cities and Roman Italy. But for most of that period neither of these republican areas was central to events. For the crucial centuries between Alexander the Great and the Roman conquest of...
Treachery and Retribution
England's Dukes, Marquesses and Earls: 1066–1707
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This is the history of England’s turbulent times, told through the stories of the country’s nobility. The book begins with the Norman Conquest in 1066 and ends with the union of England and Scotland in 1707. The nobility fought wars against Scotland in the north and against France on the Continent....
by Chris Jagger
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Escorting the Monarch is as close to an official history of the Metropolitan Police's 'Special Escort Group' (SEG) as one could hope for.
You may have seen the team at work; as the combination of motorcycles and cars pass you by, they glide elegantly and seemingly effortlessly through busy...
Cecily Neville
Mother of Richard III
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Wife to Richard, Duke of York, mother to Edward IV and Richard III, and aunt to the famous ‘Kingmaker’, Richard, Earl of Warwick, Cecily Neville was a key player on the political stage of fifteenth-century Britain England.
Mythologically rumoured to have been known as ‘the Rose of Raby’...
Emperor Alexander Severus
Rome's Age of Insurrection, AD222-235
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Alexander Severus' is full of controversy and contradictions. He came to the throne through the brutal murder of his cousin, Elagabalus, and was ultimately assassinated himself. The years between were filled with regular uprisings and rebellions, court intrigue (the Praetorian Guard slew their commander...
Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots
A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
In the first half of the nineteenth century, treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change. No longer manacled, chained and treated like wild animals, patient care was defined in law and medical understanding, and treatment of insanity developed.
Focusing on...
Mad or Bad
Crime and Insanity in Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
In a violent 19th century, desperate attempts by the alienists - a new wave of 'mad-doctor' - brought the insanity plea into Victorian courts. Defining psychological conditions in an attempt at acquittal, they faced ridicule, obstruction - even professional ruin - as they strove for acceptance and...
Forgotten Songs and Stories of the Sea
A Treasury of Voices from our Maritime Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Stirring tales of heroism at sea have been ingrained in the annals of maritime history since time immemorial. Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the New World, Queen Elizabeth I’s defeat of the Spanish Armada, and Horatio Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar are just some of Britain’s most memorable...
by Catherine Curzon
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
As the glittering Hanoverian court gives birth to the English Georgian era, a golden age of royalty dawns in Europe. Houses rise and fall, births, marriages and scandals change the course of history and in France, Revolution stalks the land.
Peep behind the shutters of the opulent court of...