Pen And Sword History imprint: 193 books
Struggle and Suffrage in Manchester
Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
‘Women are not persons.’ That was the ruling of the Court of Appeal when Gwynneth Bebb challenged the Law Society to allow her to take exams and become a solicitor. The case was dismissed because only ‘persons’ (i.e. males) could become members of the Law Society and it proved the depth of...
Struggle and Suffrage in Leeds
Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The story of Leeds is bound up in the stories of its women workers. But what were conditions like for ordinary women, and how did their lives change in the hundred years between 1850 and 1950? Who were the women who toiled in the mills, factories and sweatshops that transformed the city’s landscape?...
by Lucinda Hawksley
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Dickens and Christmas is an exploration of the 19th-century phenomenon that became the Christmas we know and love today – and of the writer who changed, forever, the ways in which it is celebrated. Charles Dickens was born in an age of great social change. He survived childhood poverty to become...
The Mighty Healer
Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Verity Holloway’s nineteenth-century cousin Thomas Holloway’s patent medicine empire was so ubiquitous, Charles Dickens commented that if you’d murdered someone with the name Holloway, you’d think their spirit had come back to torment you. Advertising as far away as the pyramids in Giza, it...
The Life of Henrietta Anne
Daughter of Charles I
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Henrietta Anne Stuart, youngest child of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, was born in June 1644 in the besieged city of Exeter at the very height of the English Civil War. The hostilities had separated her parents and her mother was on the run from Parliamentary forces when she gave birth with only...
The Legitimacy of Bastards
The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising that so many of them had mistresses and illegitimate children. John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, married at the age of twenty to a...
Pharaoh Seti I
Father of Egyptian Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Pharaoh Seti I ruled Egypt for only 11 years (1290-1279 BC), but his reign marked a revival of Egyptian military and economic power, as well as cultural and religious life. Seti was born the son of a military officer in northern Egypt, far from the halls of power in Memphis and Thebes. However, when...
Mary Ann Cotton - Dark Angel
Britain's First Female Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
A female thief, with four husbands, a lover and, reportedly, over twelve children, is arrested and tried for the murder of her stepson in 1872, turning the small village of West Auckland in County Durham upside down. Other bodies are exhumed and when they are found to contain arsenic, she is suspected...
Escaping Hitler
A Jewish Boy's Quest for Freedom and His Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Escaping Hitler is the true story, covering ninety years, of a fourteen-year-old boy Günter Stern who, when Adolf Hitler threatened his family, education and future, resolved to escape from his rural village of Nickenich in the German Rhineland. In July 1939 Günter boarded a bus to the border with...
In Bed with the Georgians
Sex, Scandal and Satire in the 18th Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
In Bed with the Georgians provides a fascinating insight into life under the bed-clothes in Georgian England, where the Madams and pimps were able to thrive in the eighteenth century like never before. It looks at high-class seraglios as well as the brothels, jelly-houses and bagnios which flourished...
The Lengthening War
The Great War Diary of Mabel Goode
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This is a strong narrative of the war, easy to read, mixing news with personal feelings and events (often revealing gap between official news and reality).
The diary captures the authors' growing disillusionment with the war, as it gradually encroaches on her life. The diary starts with great excitement,...
by James Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
In the Tudor age the murder rate was five times higher than it is today. Now, in this unique true crime guide, the Tudor Murder Files reveals just how bloody and brutal this fascinating era really was.
From the dark days of Henry VIII to the turbulent times of Shakespeare, James Moore’s new book...
Memoirs of a Red Cross Doctor
Better to Light a Candle
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Synonymous with conflict and humanitarian aid, the mandate of the International Red Cross (ICRC) is to protect the wounded victims of war, civilians, prisoners and refugees alike.
In Memoirs of a Red Cross Doctor, Frank Ryding recounts the missions he undertook with the Red Cross during a career...
Tumult & Tears
An Anthology of Women’s First World War Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
During the First World War and its immediate aftermath, hundreds of women wrote thousands of poems on multiple themes and for many different purposes. Women’s poetry was published, sold (sometimes to raise funds for charities as diverse as ‘Beef Tea for Troops’ or ‘The Blue Cross Fund for...