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A Life of Emily Brontë
Edward Chitham
The most comprehensive biography of the Brontë sister that wrote
Wuthering Heights.
235 x 156 mm | paperback | 224 pages | 50 b&w illustrations
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9781848684065
£ 15.29
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Black Avalanche
Arthur and Mary Sellwood
Black Avalanche is a vivid account of the world’s strangest pit disaster. This book is written by a husband and wife team who interviewed the survivors and rescue workers involved in this terrible disaster.
235 x 156 mm | paperback | 128 pages
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9781848682450
£ 13.49
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Dinosaur Doctor
The Life and Work of Gideon Mantell
Edmund Critchley
A fascinating biography of one of the key figures in the early study of
dinosaurs.
235 x 165 mm | paperback | 224 pages | 50 b&w illustrations
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9781848689473
£ 17.09
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First Book of Stars
Sir Patrick Moore
Foreword by Brian May
A clearly written guide to the night sky for beginners and children, written by the most famous living astronomer of them all!
235 x 165 mm | paperback | 96 pages | 120 colour illustrations
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9781848682917
£ 11.69
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Life Below Stairs in the 20th Century
Pamela Horn
A fascinating glimpse of life below stairs, This book tells the stories of the lives the people who lived and worked there.
235 x 156 mm | paperback | 224 pages | 50 b&w illustrations
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9781848688124
£ 15.29
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Life In A Medieval Town
Peter Hammond
A ‘gem’ of a book that propels
the reader back in time, allowing
them to experience the delights
of medieval life.
168 x 124 mm | paperback | 93 pages | 8 colour pages
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9781848681262
£ 5.39
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Living on Tick: Tales from a Huddersfield Corner Shop
Hazel Wheeler
This charming collection of
‘shop stories’ invites the
reader to journey through the
past and discover what life
was like living in a corner shop
in the 1920s and 1930s.
235 x 156 mm | paperback | 128 pages | 120 photos
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9781848684119
£ 11.69
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Royal Sex
Mistresses & Lovers of the British Royal Family
Roger Powell
The scandalous love lives of the British Royal Family. The book exposes the amazing story of how key English aristocratic families supplied the British royal family mistresses over several generations to secure influence at court.
Royal Sex takes the story of ‘romping royals’ to the present day and includes
Kate Middleton and Prince Harry’s ‘lovelies’.
235 x 156 mm | hardback | 336 pages | 30 colour illustrations
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9781848682122
£ 18.00
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Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5
Thomas Hennessey & Claire Thomas
The real history of MI5.
234 x 156 mm | hardback | 652 pages | 20 illustrations
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9781848680791
£ 27.00
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The Christchurch Fusee Chain Gang
Sue Newman
The Christchurch Fusee Chain Gang is a detailed study of poverty, survival and bygone trades. With major new discoveries about the watch industry, and the characters that inhabited the small town of Christchurch in Dorset, Sue Newman explores the significance of watch making and other cottage industries that helped to keep the people of Christchurch out of the clutches of poverty.
235 x 156 mm | paperback | 288 pages | 30 illustrations
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9781848684416
£ 15.29
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The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
A DICTIONARY OF BRITISH SLANG, UNIVERSITY WIT,
AND PICKPOCKET ELOQUENCE. This indispensible guide to ‘Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence’ contains fascinating insights into the humour and mentality of its compliers.
235 x 165 mm | paperback | 192 pages
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9781848680623
£ 12.99
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The First Girl Guide
The Story of Agnes Baden-Powell
Helen Gardner
A biography of the Agnes Baden-Powell, who started the girl guide movement with her brother Robert.
235 x 156 mm | hardback | 128 pages | 50 b&w illustrations
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9781445600109
£ 18.00
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The Great Plague
Stephen Porter
'An excellent introduction for the general reader’ — THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH.
The bubonic plague epidemic which struck England in 1665-6 was responsible for the deaths of almost a third of London's population. Its sheer scale was overwhelming and it was well-recorded, featuring in the works of Pepys and Defoe and described in terrible detail in the contemporary Bills of Mortality.
234 x 156 mm | paperback original | 192 pages | 80 illustrations
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9781848680876
£ 11.69
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The Impossible Bourbons
Europe's Most Ambitious Dynasty
Oliver Thomson
The Impossible Bourbons provides a remarkable account of this saga’s most interesting characters, providing an insight into their lives, achievements and failings.
235 x 156 mm | paperback | 192 pages | 20 b&w illustrations
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9781848683563
£ 13.49
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The Mongols: From Genghis Khan To Tamerlane
W. B. Bartlett
The first new history of the Mongol Empire for over twenty years.
235 x 156 mm | paperback original | 208 pages | 50 colour illustrations
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9781848680883
£ 13.49
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The Thread of Identity
Ronald Ram
This is the story of a 'middling' family over the 600 years
between 1300 and 1900. The family is set in its work-a-day local contexts
- social, economic, and political. Its story is used to unravel our 'Thread of
Identity'.
235 x 156 mm | paperback | 448 pages | 10 b&w illustrations
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9781848682641
£ 17.09
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When Grandma Wore Breeches
Audrey Bagnall
A nostalgic view of life as a Land Girl written by a girl who was there in her own words.
235 x 165 mm | paperback | 128 pages | 30 illustrations
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9781848682351
£ 11.69
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Whores, Harlots and Wanton Women
Petrina Brown
A candid examination of illicit and taboo sexuality throughout history, as seen through letters, poems and diary extracts.
235 x 156 mm | hardback | 224 pages | 40 illustrations
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9781848681279
£ 18.00
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Young Offenders
Juvenile Delinquency 1700 - 2000
Pamela Horn
A fascinating and very readable exploration of how young offenders have passed through the legal justice system over 300 years.
234 x 156 mm | hardback | 192 pages | 50 b&w illustrations
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9781848688803
£ 22.50
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