Boy Soldiers of the Great War
Pen & Sword Military
After the outbreak of the Great War, boys as young as twelve were caught up in a national wave of patriotism and, in huge numbers, volunteered to s...
View full detailsAfter the outbreak of the Great War, boys as young as twelve were caught up in a national wave of patriotism and, in huge numbers, volunteered to s...
View full detailsThe British History Encycopedia is a rich visual representation of history in which text and illustration combine to create a real sense of how lif...
View full detailsGraverobbers, prime-movers in geo-politics, jailbirds, international football celebs. Such terms are not usually associated with women in the 1920s...
View full details'For the sake of decency, gentlemen, don't hang me high.' This was the last request of modest murderess Mary Blandy, who was hanged for poisoning h...
View full detailsHuman capital and empire compares the role of Scots, Irish and Welsh within the English East India Company between c. 1690 and c. 1820. It focuses ...
View full detailsLonglisted for the Highland Book Prize 2019 When Scotland's 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. In the H...
View full detailsKeeping the Home Fires Burning tells the story of how the troops and the general public were kept happy and content during the First World War. Bet...
View full details'My political life is over, and I proclaim my son Emperor of the French under the title of Napoleon II'. It was not to be. Napoleon's hopes, expres...
View full detailsNelsonian Reminiscences - A Dramatic Eye-Witness Account Of The War At Sea 1795-1810 by G S Parsons RN These remarkable memoirs of a naval lieuten...
View full detailsFamily and Local Historians frequently encounter the challenge posed by the writing, and sometimes the translation, of the records which might most...
View full detailsIn the 19th century, the Stevenson engineers pioneered marvelous lighthouses around the coasts of Scotland - lighthouses which inspire with their a...
View full detailsA very popular book by a popular local author, Leonard Low. St. Andrews Untold Stories has tales of history & people in the famous Fife town an...
View full detailsThe Beano is Britain's longest-running and best-loved comic. Since 1938 it has brought thrills and laughter to generation after generation of child...
View full detailsAnyone alive in the 18th century would have known that ‘the longitude problem’ was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day – and had been for c...
View full detailsJeremy Paxman's unique portrait of the Victorian age takes readers on an exciting journey through the birth of modern Britain. Using the paintings ...
View full detailsExperience a new history of Scotland told through its places. Writers Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat, James Robertson and ...
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