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The English Pleasure Garden 1660-1860

The English Pleasure Garden 1660-1860

During their heyday in the mid-eighteenth century the pleasure gardens were one of the hubs of polite society. Laid out ......more

The British Soldier of the First World War

The British Soldier of the First World War

The First World War affected the lives of a whole generation of people in Britain and the Commonwealth. Most people livi......more

Burns Supper Companion

Burns Supper Companion

In 1801, some five years after Robert Burns death, nine of his friends sat down to dinner in what is now known as Burns......more

A History of the English-speaking Peoples Vol 2: The New World

A History of the English-speaking Peoples Vol 2: The New World

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries England underwent a series of transformations. The turbulent reigns of the Tu......more

A New World in Essex: The Rise and Fall of the Purleigh Brotherhood Colony, 1896 - 1903

A New World in Essex: The Rise and Fall of the Purleigh Brotherhood Colony, 1896 - 1903

A group of Christian Socialists inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s ideas went ’back to the land’ in Essex to form a Utopian colon......more

The Rights of Man: Or What Are We Fighting For?

The Rights of Man: Or What Are We Fighting For?

H. G. Wells s passionate and influential manifesto--never before available in the United States--was first published in ......more

Scotland’s Last Frontier: A Journey Along the Highland Line

Scotland’s Last Frontier: A Journey Along the Highland Line

The Highland Line is the most profound internal boundary in Britain. First recognised by Agricola in the first century A......more

The Royal Baby: Commemorating the Birth of HRH Prince George

The Royal Baby: Commemorating the Birth of HRH Prince George

The son of William and Kate is greeted worldwide with great excitement and enthusiasm. The baby boy s arrival marks a ti......more

The History of St Kilda

The History of St Kilda

As one of the most remote corners of the British Isles, the island archipelago of St Kilda has long held a fascination f......more

Victorian and Edwardian Railway Travel

Victorian and Edwardian Railway Travel

For the majority of the British public in the Victorian period the railways were the only way to travel. In 1880 the pop......more

West End Girls: The Real Lives, Loves and Friendships of 1940s Soho and Its Working Girls

West End Girls: The Real Lives, Loves and Friendships of 1940s Soho and Its Working Girls

A vivid and compelling memoir recounting the real lives, loves and friendship of 1940s Soho and its working girls. Barba......more

The Official Rangers Hall of Fame

The Official Rangers Hall of Fame

Following strict criteria laid down by Rangers based on talent, length of service and ambassadorship to the club, here a......more

A History of the Northern Highlands in the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite Rebellions

A History of the Northern Highlands in the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite Rebellions

In 1688, King James VII of Scotland and II of England was ousted in the so-called ’Glorious Revolution’. Yet in parts of......more

Ah, Those Irish Colleens: Heroic Women of Ireland

Ah, Those Irish Colleens: Heroic Women of Ireland

While women in modern Western society have spent the last century fighting for equal rights, women in ancient Ireland we......more

Acts of 30° & 43° Geo. III. relating to a district in the Parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea, called Hans Town

Acts of 30° & 43° Geo. III. relating to a district in the Parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea, called Hans Town

Acts of 30 & 43 Geo. III. relating to a district in the Parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea, called Hans Town" is a classic bo......more

Anglo-Saxon Riddles

Anglo-Saxon Riddles

A book full of ingenious characters who speak their names in riddles-a bookworm, an iceberg, an oyster, the sun and moon......more

McCulloch’s Dilemma

McCulloch’s Dilemma

It is historical fiction set in events of the time. The story has resonances in today’s society - suppression of freedom......more

A Short History of England

A Short History of England

It will be very reasonably asked why I should consent, though upon a sort of challenge, to write even a popular essay in......more

Britain’s Best Kept Secret: Ultra’s Base at Bletchley Park

Britain’s Best Kept Secret: Ultra’s Base at Bletchley Park

This book traces the Park’s early history and provides a guide to the key wartime buildings and what went on behind the ......more

At the End of the Storm There’s a Golden Sky

At the End of the Storm There’s a Golden Sky

Hillsborough, Saturday 15th April 1989. Ninety-seven men, women and children were unlawfully killed. They went to a foot......more

My Personal History of The British Interplanetary Society 1933 - 1937 Liverpool

My Personal History of The British Interplanetary Society 1933 - 1937 Liverpool

This is the story of the founding of the British Interplanetary Society in Liverpool in 1933 before it moved to London i......more

Liberalism and the Social Problem: A Collection of Early Speeches As a Member of Parliament

Liberalism and the Social Problem: A Collection of Early Speeches As a Member of Parliament

A fascinating collection of early speeches to Parliament from perhaps the greatest orator and statesman of the twentieth......more

Owen Rhoscomyl

Owen Rhoscomyl

Owen Rhoscomyl (1863-1919) seems like a figure out of legend. A cowboy, frontiersman, soldier, and mercenary who roved t......more

Petticoat Heroes: Gender, Culture and Popular Protest in the Rebecca Riots

Petticoat Heroes: Gender, Culture and Popular Protest in the Rebecca Riots

The wave of unrest which took place in the 1840s in Wales known as "the Rebecca riots" stands out as a success story wit......more

Revolution to Devolution: Reflections on Welsh Democracy

Revolution to Devolution: Reflections on Welsh Democracy

In the wake of the Scottish vote on independence, questions of sovereignty, devolution, and local control have perhaps n......more

Secret Sins: Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920

Secret Sins: Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920

In Secret Sins, Russell Davies reveals Carmarthenshire, a rural society in southeast Wales, to have been a hotbed of deb......more

Fenian Fire: The British Government Plot to Assassinate Queen Victoria

Fenian Fire: The British Government Plot to Assassinate Queen Victoria

A historical investigation into one of the most serpentine attempts on Queen Victoria’s life that reveals for the first ......more

Royal Wales

Royal Wales

Royal Wales offers a comprehensive history of the royalty of Wales, from those families that ruled during the early Midd......more

The Welsh National School of Medicine, 1893-1931: The Cardiff Years

The Welsh National School of Medicine, 1893-1931: The Cardiff Years

This book is an account of the origins and development of Cardiff’s and Wales’s medical school during the first four dec......more

Law and Disorder in Early Modern Wales: Crime and Authority in the Denbighshire Courts, C.1660-1730

Law and Disorder in Early Modern Wales: Crime and Authority in the Denbighshire Courts, C.1660-1730

The sheer scale of surviving early modern Welsh court archives attests to the importance of the institutions that produc......more

Jacobite Stories

Jacobite Stories

In this book, which details the main Jacobite risings of 1689, 1715 and 1745, Dane Love reveals that it was a bloody tim......more

Just Another Day at the Office: The True Working Memoirs of a Paramedic Who Was Formerly Part of a Bomb Disposal Team in Belfast

Just Another Day at the Office: The True Working Memoirs of a Paramedic Who Was Formerly Part of a Bomb Disposal Team in Belfast

Just another day at the office follows Chris fascinating and sometimes stressful careers as part of a British Forces bo......more

Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham

Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham

A study of the age which saw the crystallization of the party-system and representative government...more

The History of Britain Companion

The History of Britain Companion

Starting, quite literally, at the beginning, this Companion takes the reader on an unorthodox tour of the lesser-known g......more

Love and Madness: The Murder of Martha Ray, Mistress of the Fourth Earl of Sandwich

Love and Madness: The Murder of Martha Ray, Mistress of the Fourth Earl of Sandwich

On a spring evening in 1779, as she emerged from London s Covent Garden Theatre, a beautiful young woman was shot in the......more

Cambridge: A Cultural and Literary History

Cambridge: A Cultural and Literary History

A new and innovative series offering in-depth cultural, historical and literary guides to the great cities of the world....more

The Welsh in London: 1500-2000

The Welsh in London: 1500-2000

This work examines how the Welsh became absorbed into London s population yet retained aspects of Welsh culture from lan......more

Discovering Heraldry

Discovering Heraldry

Heraldry s unfamiliar terminology discourages people from learning more about this fascinating subject but heraldic lang......more

The Queen’s Knight

The Queen’s Knight

Sir Howard Elphinstone, dashing hero of the Crimean War, was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1858 aged just twenty-nine. H......more

Growing Up in a War

Growing Up in a War

This utterely compelling memoir opens with a sceptical nine-year-old Bryan Magee being taught the facts of life. It goes......more

The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships

The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships

From the bestselling author of ’The Lighthouse Stevensons’, a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since......more

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