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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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  • JAMES I’S TUMULTUOUS FIRST YEAR AS KING
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    JAMES I’S TUMULTUOUS FIRST YEAR AS KING
    BEN NORMAN
    This is the story of a crucial year in the history of England, brimming with great political and social upheaval: the year 1603. 1603 was a time of last goodbyes and new beginnings; of waning customs and fresh political and constitutional visions. It saw an aged queen die and a king from the far north rise as sovereign over a foreign nation. It also witnessed an unprecedented o...

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  • THE BRITISH OSKAR SCHINDLER
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    THE BRITISH OSKAR SCHINDLER
    EDWARD ABEL SMITH
    When Nicholas Winton canceled his skiing holiday in favor of going to Prague to visit a friend, little did he know this decision would change the course of thousands of lives, including his own. As millions of Jewish families attempted to flee the growing clutches of the brutal Nazi war of terror, this twenty-nine-year-old stockbroker decided to act, pulling off one of the most...

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  • THE FIRST NHS
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    THE FIRST NHS
    EMMA SNOW
    We all think the NHS was first dreamed up by Nye Bevan when he became minister of health in 1945. Yet experiments with the NHS and welfare state in fact started many years before. Inspired by a doctor who coined the phrase “national health service” in 1910, John Tomley and David Davies took steps to pilot the first ever national health service, focusing on TB in Wales, the WNMA...

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  • PIT LASSES
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    PIT LASSES
    DENISE BATES
    Women have long been recognized as the backbone of coalmining communities, supporting their men. Less well known is the role which they played as the industry developed, working underground alongside their husband or father, moving the coal which he had cut. The year 2012 is significant as it is the 170th anniversary of the publication of the Report of the Commission into the E...

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  • EXPLORING ROMAN LONDON
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    EXPLORING ROMAN LONDON
    SIMON WEBB
    Much more than a simple guidebook, Exploring Roman London is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the early history of England's capital city. In addition to containing information on every site in London where Roman remains can be seen, the history of the foundation of the city and its subsequent development is meticulously chronicled. Each chapter deals with a diff...

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  • CASANOVA'S LIFE AND TIMES
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    CASANOVA'S LIFE AND TIMES
    DAVID JOHN THOMPSON
    This is both the life of Giacomo Casanova and a chronicle of eighteenth-century Europe. Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was born the son of a moderately poor acting family at a time when the stage carried enormous social stigma. Yet in his own lifetime he achieved celebrity across Europe, rubbing shoulders with numerous of the eighteenth century's greatest men and women, from Fred...

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  • ANCIENT ROME'S WORST EMPERORS
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    ANCIENT ROME'S WORST EMPERORS
    L J TRAFFORD
    Who qualifies as the worst of Roman emperors and why? Join L J Trafford for a tour of the very worst leadership in ancient Rome featuring Caligula, Commodus and many more. Between 27 BCE and 476 CE a series of men became Roman Emperor, ruling a domain that stretched across Europe, North Africa and the Near East. Some of them did this rather well, expanding Rome’s territories fu...

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  • MILITARY ARCHAEOLOGY
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    MILITARY ARCHAEOLOGY
    TIM HEATH / JULIAN EVAN-HART
    A valuable addition to the military and literary analysis of the archaeology of warfare from the Boudiccan uprising to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Military and battlefield archaeology has always been viewed as a sub-discipline to that of traditional historical archaeology. Once considered the pursuit of learned history professors and their disciples today, military archaeology h...

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