Pen and Sword Family History

For readers with family ties to Manchester and Salford, and researchers delving into the rich history of these cities, this informative, accessible...

DescriptionEveryone has a mother and a line of female ancestors and often their paths through life are hard to trace. That is why this detailed, ac...

DescriptionOxfordshire has a proud history as an agricultural county, relying for centuries on the wool trade for its prosperity. It is also famous...

DescriptionThe trail that an ancestor leaves through the Victorian period and the twentieth century is relatively easy to follow - the records are ...

Property title deeds are perhaps the most numerous sources of historical evidence but also one of the most neglected. While the information any one...

Tracing Your Pre-Victorian Ancestors is the ideal handbook for family historians whose research has reached back to the early nineteenth century an...

DescriptionHow were criminal children dealt with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Over this hundred-year period, ideas about the wa...

DescriptionFraternal and friendly societies and trade unions - associations that provide mutual aid and benefits - have a long, fascinating history...

Part encyclopedia, part dictionary, part almanac - Jonathan Scott's Dictionary of Family History doesn't claim to be exhaustive, but it is practica...

A practical guide to family history collaboration.Illustrations: 40 black and white illustrations

Explores family history research as in-family research by all ages.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): McConnell, Robin CIllustration(s): 40...

The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger beca...

DescriptionFor better or worse, what we are is often determined by our family; the events that occurred many years before we were born and the choi...

It was the home of a knight, a baron, a viscount, two marquises and nine earls. The family had estates not only in South Yorkshire, but also in Nor...

For better or worse, what we are is often determined by our family; the events that occurred many years before we were born, and the choices that w...

An essential handbook for anyone researching the life of an ancestor using the census. Covers England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, the Channel Island...

This fully revised second edition of Ian Maxwell's Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors is a lively and accessible introduction to Scotland's long, comp...

A hitherto unexamined history presented in a new way of the wider Bonaparte family shedding new light on their eventful lives in Britain.Publisher:...

Tells the story of the Jacobite rebellion in 1715 through the story the influential and prominent Murray family.

The definitive biography of Grace Dalrymple Elliott.Illustrations: 32 black and white illustrations

Information-packed guide to burials and headstones, cemeteries and crematoria, memorials, funerals and undertakers, as well as locating your ancest...

In October 336 BC, statues of the twelve Olympian Gods were paraded through the ancient capital of Macedon. Following them was a thirteenth, a stat...