History - Other

100 Years of Metropolitan Police Gallantry.

Author: Dick Kirby

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 198pp. 15.5cm by 23.3cm.

ISBN: 9781399014908

Weight: 385g

Original Price: £14.99

During the 19th Century the Royal Navy played a key role defending the expanding British Empire. As sail gave way to steam power, there was a pressing requirement for coaling stations and dock facilities across the world’s oceans. These strategic bases needed fixed defences.

Author: Bill Clements

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 274pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781526740304

Weight.796g

Original Price: £25.00

Putting aside Roman gladiators and gun-slingers of the American Wild West, by the 19th century duelling had become the sole domain of nobility, military officers and gentleman, with rules added to make sure everything was conducted in a fair and professional manner.

Author: Stephen Wynn.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 184pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526738530

Weight: 508

Original Price: £19.99

A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables. Purkiss uses the story of food as a revelatory device to chart changing views on class, gender, and tradition through the ages.

Author: Diane Purkiss

Publisher: William Collins Books

Hardback. 549pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9780007255566

Weight: 904g

Original Price: £30.00

Confessions, humour and bravery of the departing.

Author: Chris Wood.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 216 pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781526770899

Weight: 410

Original Price: £14.99

A memoir of war, conscience & family secrets.

Karl Gönner was a schoolteacher and Nazi party member from the Black Forest. In 1940, he was sent to a village in occupied France and tasked with turning its children into proper Germans.

Author: Burkhard Bilger

Publisher: William Collins Books

Hardback. 314pp. 15.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9780008100759

Weight: 555g

Original Price: £25.00

This is the story of how Jubilee celebrations have become vital to the success of Britain’s Royal Family and to its place at the heart of a nation.

Author: June Woolerton

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 217pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399062763

Weight: 404g

Original Price: £15.99

The history of gibbeting is the story of one of Britain’s most brutal forms of punishments, the hanging of criminals in a body shaped metal cage as a warning and as a form of justice.

Author: Samantha Priestley.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 150pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526755186

Weight: 475

Original Price: £19.99

From the glory of coronation regalia to coins, from imposing statues to stamps, from distinguished medals to monuments, and from beautiful artworks to Edward VIII’s abdication document, each item in this book has a fascinating story to tell.

Author: Gill Knappett

Publisher: Pitkin

Hardback. 126pp. 19cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781841659527

Weight: 885g

Original Price: £16.99

The first book ever devoted solely to torture as practiced in Britain and its empire.

Author: Simon Webb.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 146pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781526719294

Original Price: £19.99

The first book ever devoted solely to torture as practiced in Britain and its empire.

Author: Simon Webb.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 146pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9781526751485

Original Price: £12.99

This anthology analyzes a number of case studies and provides insights into themes and topics that characterized the so-called ‘reconstitution’ of armies in their historical and social contexts.

Edited by Matthias Strohn.

Publisher: Casemate.

Hardback. 196pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781612006017

Weight: 425

Original Price: £50.00

Author: Stuart Laycock, Philip Laycock

Publisher: The History Press

Hardback. 320pp. 14cm by 21.5cm.

ISBN: 9780750998796

Original Price: £15.99

Missed clues and reflections on Victorian society. The book takes the lid off Victorian mindsets, exposing a dark and unnatural place as topsy-turvy as that inhabited by the killer himself.

Author: M.J. Trow

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 185pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526739292

Weight: 473g

Original Price: £19.99

From the Vikings to the Jacobites, and from the high-kings of Irish mythology to Mrs Simpson, this volume looks at king’s, queens, their followers and their opponents to cast light on Ireland’s history from an unexpected angle.

Author: Edited by John Gibney

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526736710

Weight: 562g

Original Price: £19.99

This book contains the complete reason Jack the Ripper came to be. It sheds new light on the mystery of the killer. After all, who is going to suspect a policeman going about his daily duties of being one of the world's most infamous serial killers.

Author: Rod Beattie

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 144pp. cm by cm.

ISBN: 9781399017527

Weight: 408g

Original Price: £20.00

Among the nineteenth-century cases are the infamous killings of Jack the Ripper and the less-well-known but terrifying crimes of the only female killer, the Deptford Poisoner. Twentieth-century cases covered in forensic detail include the Black-out Ripper of 1942, the Thames Nude Murders of the 1960s and the multiple killings of Joseph Smith, John Christie and John George Haigh. 

Author: Dr Jonathan Oates.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 216pp. 16x24x2cm.

ISBN: 9781399003698

Weight: 550g.

Original Price: £20.00

England, Hungary, and the Game that Changed Football Forever

Author: Matt Clough

Publisher: History Press

Hardback. 240pp. 15.6cm by 23.4cm.

ISBN: 9780750998147

Weight: 516g

Original Price: £20.00

The National Archives - Images of power and majesty.

Author: Paul Dryburgh.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 168pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN 9781526729538

Original Price: £25.00

Author: Alan Moss. Keith Skinner

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 400pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9780750998635

Original Price: £22.00

Stone Age to WWII.

Author: Mick Davis & David Lassman.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 162pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9781526706164

Original Price: £12.99