In Yorkshire, 2015 marks the centenary of the founding of the first Land Girl Hostel, near Boroughbridge, by Lady Margery Lawson Tancred. Yorkshire Women at War deals with the Wome ...

We most often think of the Victorian female offender in her most archetypal and stereotypical roles; the polite lady shoplifter, stowing all manner of valuables beneath her volumin ...

The second edition of Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in archives throug ...

Photographs of your seafaring ancestors may tell you more about their lives than you realize, and Simon Wills’s helpful and practical guide shows you how to identify and interpret ...

Family history should reveal more than facts and dates, lists of names and places – it should bring ancestors alive in the context of their times and the surroundings they knew – a ...

The bayonet is an essential item of a soldier's kit even on today's modern hi-tech battlefield. This work examines the origins of this humble weapon and the 'cult of the bayonet' a ...

This book gives a new perspective on the life of women in the 1960s, contrary to the widely accepted vision of a Swinging Sixties full of Sex, Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll. It was certa ...

What was life like in the Victorian underworld – who were the criminals, what crimes did they commit, how did they come to a criminal career, and what happened to them after they w ...

South Devon in the Great War provides the first definitive history of events in this part of Devon during the First World War, with more than fifty pictures, some unpublished for 1 ...

What a fine long pedigree you have given the human race. – Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1863.How is the Royal Family descended from fish? How distantly are we related to dinosa ...

The first policewomen were established during the Great War, but with no powers of arrest; the first women lawyers did not practise until the early twentieth century, and despite t ...

Explore the lives of your ancestors in the 'city of 1,000 trades' in this family and local history guide, dedicated to the city of Leeds. Learn how to find out more about the stree ...

This book is a blend of social history and family history covering the years 1800-1950. It is structured around the relationships which fascinate those interested in finding out mo ...

Jonathan Scott's Family History Web Directory is an information-packed reference guide that distils the best of the internet into one easy-to-use format. Themed sections cover diff ...

If you want to find out about an ancestor who served on the Somme during the First World War – during the Battle of the Somme in 1916 or at any time during the fighting in this sec ...

On tammikuu ja 1900-luvun ensimmäinen päivä Pariisissa. Päivämäärä ei ole satunnainen, vaan merkittävä monella tapaa. Se on keskikohta La Belle Époquelle, ihanalle kaudelle. Kaudel ...

Lohikäärmeitä, jättiläisiä, seireenejä ja meripetoja - kuvastoa keskiajasta on vaikea mieltää ilman kammottavia hirviöitä. Silti todelliset keskiajan hirviöt olivat taruakin ihmeel ...

Historians find the Middle Ages a period shrouded in mystery. On the one hand, sources speak of greedy kings and corrupt popes who flourished during a time of widespread hunger, di ...

Fotografen Hedda drivs av drömmen om konstnärlig frihet och kvinnors rätt till medbestämmande i samhället. Hon har egen ateljé i Helsingborg men får även uppdrag att dokumentera pa ...

Tänk på väggarna först, för det är de som förvandlar ett hus till ett hem, sa den store William Morris. Ja, det sitter i väggarna, men också på väggarna och det är dags för dessa a ...

Den klassiska japanska boken om tekonsten I sin klassiska bok om tekonsten ger Okakura Kakuzo en poetisk inblick i österländsk historia, i hur chad (teets väg) uppstod ur zenbudd ...

Det fanns de som trodde marken var värdelös - och så fanns det de som var helt säkra på motsatsen. I Västerbottens skogar verkade gruvdrömmen länge förbli just en dröm. Pionjärer s ...

Lars-Olof Hallberg, som gjort sig känd för att dokumentera miljöer och företeelser på väg att försvinna, har denna gång valt att besöka landets sista fjällägenheter. På dessa statl ...

Sverige är fantastiskt - inte minst ur geologisk synvinkel! Nyfiken på geologi tar dig med till 150 spännande platser i Sverige som bjuder på stora geologiska upplevelser. Boken ge ...

"Är du törstig?" Stig räcker spannen till fotografen Lars-Olof Hallberg. Det är Lars-Olofs första besök på Tämmesboda, den småländska arrendegården där syskonen Berit och Stig Aron ...