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  • ROYAL INBREEDING AND OTHER MALADIES
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    ROYAL INBREEDING AND OTHER MALADIES
    JULIANA CUMMINGS
    When we think of kings and queens, we conjure up illusions of a magnificent kingdom where His and Her Majesties live in the lap of luxury and want for nothing. While this may be true, life wasn’t always as perfect. With the history of royal families comes a long and twisted history of genetics and family intermarriage that is often swept aside. In Ms Cummings' latest book, she ...

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  • WOMEN'S LIVES IN THE TUDOR ERA
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    WOMEN'S LIVES IN THE TUDOR ERA
    AMY MCELROY
    Women in the Tudor age are often overshadowed by their male counterparts. Even those of royalty were deemed inferior to males. while women may have been classed as the inferior gender, women played a vital role in Tudor society. As daughters, mothers and wives they were expected to be obedient to the man of the household, but how effective would those households be without the ...

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  • EDWARD II
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    EDWARD II
    KATHRYN WARNER
    Edward II is one of the most unsuccessful and unconventional kings in English history, and is well-known for having passionate and probably intimate relationships with men. In modern times, he has often been considered an LGBT+ icon of sorts. Edward II: His Sexuality and Relationships looks at the men in the king’s life and examines the relations he had with them in the context...

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  • THE ENDEAVOUR JOURNALS
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    THE ENDEAVOUR JOURNALS
    JOHN MACDONALD / CLARE MACDONALD
    In 1770 H.M. Bark Endeavour arrived in New Holland, Australia, the 'Continent of Smoke'. On board were Lieutenant James Cook, gentleman naturalist Joseph Banks, natural history artist Sydney Parkinson, and Midshipman James Magra. For the first time, this book combines the journals of these men to present a single, cohesive narrative that brings the story to life as never before...

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  • SISTERS OF RICHARD III
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    SISTERS OF RICHARD III
    SARAH J HODDER
    This book is the narrative of three women of York, sisters to not one, but two kings of England. Anne, Elizabeth and Margaret Plantagenet were the daughters of Richard, Duke of York and his wife, Cecily Neville, and therefore sisters to Edward IV and Richard III. These women watched from the sidelines as their father challenged England’s anointed king and lost his life, as thei...

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  • KATERYN PARR
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    KATERYN PARR
    LAURA ADKINS
    Katheryn Parr is mainly remembered today as being the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, the one who ‘survived’. Katheryn was not only a wife but a queen, mother, reformer, and author.  Katheryn would face a number of events in her lifetime including being held to ransom during the Pilgrimage of Grace, being placed as regent while Henry was in France, a role which only one of his f...

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  • WITCHES AND WITCH HUNTS THROUGH THE AGES
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    WITCHES AND WITCH HUNTS THROUGH THE AGES
    PHIL CARRADICE
    Witchcraft! Just the mention of the name is enough to cause fear, even terror, in the minds and hearts of many people. But that is not the full story. Yes, there have always been proponents of the 'dark arts,' witches and warlocks willing to use their powers for evil, but the wise men and women of the ancient and medieval world - men and women eager to use their spells and poti...

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  • JANE AUSTEN: DADDY’S GIRL
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    JANE AUSTEN: DADDY’S GIRL
    ZÖE WHEDDON
    Jane Austen Daddy’s Girl: The Life and Influence of the Revd George Austen is a poignant and pertinent examination of a relationship which became the cornerstone of Jane’s life, the bedrock of family and faith as she knew them. Our epic journey through the life and times of the Reverend George Austen will lead us from his early childhood and humble beginnings as an orphan, thro...

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  • POLITICAL WOMEN
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    POLITICAL WOMEN
    MAGGIE ANDREWS
    The lives of women changed immeasurably during the twentieth century, not just because of technological and economic advances, but as a result of a multiplicity of small and large, local, national and international political campaigns by women. The activities of the Edwardian suffrage campaigns are the most well-known example of this, but in less well-known, political struggles...

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  • THE ROMAN EMPERORS OF BRITAIN
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    THE ROMAN EMPERORS OF BRITAIN
    TONY SULLIVAN
    This book provides a unique take on the history of Roman Britain from Julius Caesar’s first invasion to the end of Roman authority. In 55 BC, on a stretch of beach near Deal in East Kent, the Romans’ first invasion was in great danger of being pushed back into the sea by a host of Britons defending the beach. The eagle bearer of the Tenth Legion jumped into the surf and urged h...

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  • WILLIAM MARSHAL'S WIFE
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    WILLIAM MARSHAL'S WIFE
    JULIA A HICKEY
    The real story of Isabel de Clare, William Marshal's wife, a powerful woman who was a key figure in the history of Ireland, England, Wales and Normandy. Isabel de Clare, the descendant of kings, dukes and freebooters, was one of the wealthiest heiresses in Henry II’s kingdom thanks to the ambitions of her father Richard, Strongbow, de Clare and his marriage to Aoife, daughter o...

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  • THE JACOBITE REBELLIONS OF THE BRITISH ISLES
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    THE JACOBITE REBELLIONS OF THE BRITISH ISLES
    ANDREW JACKSON
    The story of the Jacobite Rebellions really began in 1534, when King Henry VIII changed the official religion of England from Catholic to Protestant. The narrative then continued through turbulent times of civil war and religious and political strife, leading to tensions and discontent boiling over when the Catholic King James II came to the throne in 1685; whereupon he was imm...

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  • THE UNTOLD STORY OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK RN
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    THE UNTOLD STORY OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK RN
    COLIN WATERS
    The explosive findings within this book are history-changing. They discount the age-old belief that Captain James Cook, the great circumnavigator, left no modern direct descendants. Using compelling, detailed and verifiable evidence, Colin Waters completely unravels, for the first time, the full fascinating story concerning the mysterious supposed 18th century drowning of his s...

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  • MARY NEAL AND THE SUFFRAGETTES WHO SAVED MORRIS DANCING
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    MARY NEAL AND THE SUFFRAGETTES WHO SAVED MORRIS DANCING
    KATHRYN ATHERTON
    At the beginning of the 20th century Morris dancing had all but died out in much of England. It was militant suffragettes and slum girls who kick-started the revival that returned the forgotten dances of the countryside to towns and villages across the nation. As a result of their commitment to preserve and pass on the dances, the Morris survived as a living tradition that is s...

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  • DEATH AND THE VICTORIANS
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    DEATH AND THE VICTORIANS
    ADRIAN MACKINDER
    From spooky stories and real-life ghost hunting, to shows about murder and serial killers, we are fascinated by death - and we owe these modern obsessions to the Victorian age. Death and the Victorians explores a period in history when the search for the truth about what lies beyond our mortal realm was matched only by the imagination and invention used to find it. Walk among L...

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  • JAPANESE FIGHTING HEROES
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    JAPANESE FIGHTING HEROES
    JAMIE RYDER
    From the demon-killing Minamoto no Yorimitsu to the immortal poet Ono no Komachi, find out about the fascinating world of Japanese warriors and folk-heroes. Japanese mythology is filled with stories of larger-than-life characters that shaped the landscape of Japan. They are the folk heroes who slayed monsters, fought in epic battles and reflected the most complicated emotions o...

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  • LIFE IN BRITAIN AND GERMANY ON THE ROAD TO WAR
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    LIFE IN BRITAIN AND GERMANY ON THE ROAD TO WAR
    ANTON RIPPON / NICOLA RIPPON
    In December 1922, the distinguished foreign correspondent Leonard Spray warned Britain to ‘keep your eye on Hitler’. The carnage of the so-called ‘war to end all wars’ had left 900,000 British servicemen dead, and more than 2 million suffering physical and psychological wounds, but there was hope. The vanquished had been left with no military capacity to wage another war, and w...

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  • STRANGE WAYS TO DIE IN HISTORY
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    STRANGE WAYS TO DIE IN HISTORY
    BEN GAZUR
    Death comes for us all in the end. But it does not always come in a way you might expect. Throughout history there have been people who have suffered extraordinary, unusual, and downright weird demises. In Strange Ways to Die in History you will find out about the true stories behind unlikely stories of bizarre accidents, assassinations, and misadventures. Did a playwright real...

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  • BRITAIN’S MOST PROLIFIC BURGLAR
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    BRITAIN’S MOST PROLIFIC BURGLAR
    MARTYN R BEARDSLEY
    Harry Edward Vickers, aka Flannelfoot, was possibly Britain’s most successful ever burglar. Not financially - he stole cash and low-value items (even, bizarrely, false teeth!). The success was in his hundreds of burglaries spread over many years without being caught. The lives of career criminals are invariably dotted with prison sentences, but thanks to his caution and cunning...

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  • TUDOR FEMINISTS
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    TUDOR FEMINISTS
    REBECCA SOPHIA KATHERINE WILSON
    The term ‘feminist’ would have been anachronistic in the Tudor period, but surely we would not hesitate to call the lady, who would be queen, Anne Boleyn, a feminist? All ten women, from Catherine Par to Margaret Beaufort, lived their lives in a way that challenged the patriarchal world they lived in. Each chapter is dedicated to one remarkable woman, ahead of her time. It expl...

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  • A GUIDE TO THE MEDIEVAL CASTLES OF ENGLAND
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    A GUIDE TO THE MEDIEVAL CASTLES OF ENGLAND
    MALCOLM HISLOP
    Spread across the medieval kingdom of England in a network of often formidable strongholds, castles, like cathedrals, are defining landmarks of their age, dominating their settings, in many cases even to this day. By representing an essential aspect of our history and heritage, the interpretation of which is constantly being revised, they demonstrate the value of Malcolm Hislop...

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  • THE ROYAL WOMEN WHO MADE ENGLAND
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    THE ROYAL WOMEN WHO MADE ENGLAND
    M J PORTER
    Throughout the tenth century, England, as it would be recognized today, formed. No longer many Saxon kingdoms, but rather, just England. Yet, this development masks much in the century in which the Viking raiders were seemingly driven from England’s shores by Alfred, his children and grandchildren, only to return during the reign of his great, great-grandson, the much-maligned ...

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  • THE END OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
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    THE END OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
    JONATHAN WHITEHEAD
    The Spanish Civil War ended in Alicante. After Catalonia fell to the Hitler and Mussolini backed military rebellion of Franco’s Nationalists at the outset of 1939, the legitimate Republican government of Dr Negrín was faced with a choice between apparently futile resistance or unconditional surrender to the triumphant Nationalists. Choosing the path of continued defiance until ...

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  • WOMEN AT WORK IN WORLD WARS I AND II
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    WOMEN AT WORK IN WORLD WARS I AND II
    PAUL CHRYSTAL
    This book is about women in World Wars I & II - women working in factories and on farms, or toiling perilously in field stations just behind the front lines, in inhospitable hospitals and convalescent homes. It is, therefore, about the prodigious contribution women made to the war efforts from 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, standing in for the men who had left their places of work fo...

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  • THE TUDOR EMPIRE
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    THE TUDOR EMPIRE
    DAVID WILDMAN
    This book will delve into how the Tudors exerted their control over their empire and domains, stretching from the Old War to the colonies of the New. The Tudors remain one of Britain’s most fascinating royal dynasties. Their thirst for control surged due to the family’s paranoid obsession about being interlopers who were never destined to be monarchs. Throughout the sixteenth c...

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  • 19TH CENTURY FEMALE EXPLORERS
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    19TH CENTURY FEMALE EXPLORERS
    CAROLINE ROOPE
    As any historian will testify, a nineteenth-century woman’s place was very much at home. Or was it? For a lucky (and plucky) few, who had a little determination, and the ability to withstand lice infestations, climbing mountains in corsets, rascally guides and occasional certain death - as well as the raised eyebrows of the society they left behind – then the world really was t...

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  • MRS BEETON AND MRS MARSHALL
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    MRS BEETON AND MRS MARSHALL
    EMMA KAY
    The name Mrs Beeton has endured for well over a century, synonymous with all things reassuringly culinary, while her contemporary Agnes Bertha Marshall remains somewhat of an enigma. Both Isabella Beeton and Agnes Bertha Marshall lived within a short distance of each other in Pinner, worked in London, wrote about, and shared a passion for food, all just a couple of decades apar...

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  • PETER OF SAVOY
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    PETER OF SAVOY
    JOHN MARSHALL
    Where did the story that ended with the great Edwardian castles of north Wales begin? How was it that hundreds of men from Savoy built castles in north Wales? Whose stylised statue sits outside the Savoy Hotel in London on the site of his former palace? Whose castle of Pevensey endured successfully the longest English siege? Why does much of Switzerland speak French to this day...

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  • FAY TAYLOUR, 'THE WORLD'S WONDER GIRL'
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    FAY TAYLOUR, 'THE WORLD'S WONDER GIRL'
    STEPHEN M CULLEN
    Fay Taylour (1904-1983) remains the most successful female motorsports champion. She defeated the foremost male motorcycle speedway stars of the 1920s and 1930s. A household name in Britain and her native Ireland, she won further fame on the track in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Her successes against men led to a ban on women competing against them in the UK, but Fa...

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  • HENRY VIII’S TRUE DAUGHTER
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    HENRY VIII’S TRUE DAUGHTER
    WENDY J DUNN
    The lives of Tudor women often offer faint but fascinating footnotes on the pages of history. The life of Catherine – or Katryn as her husband would one day pen her name – Carey, the daughter of Mary Boleyn and, as the weight of evidence suggests, Henry VIII, is one of those footnotes. As the possible daughter of Henry VIII, the niece of Anne Boleyn and the favourite of Elizabe...

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