Author: Paul Chrystal

This is both a history of books as objects and artefacts but also a social history about the use and transmission (or restriction) of knowledge in ...

This is the story of the 1st Air Landing Light Regiment RA and its role in the Italian campaign and at the Battle of Arnhem. It is also the story o...

This important, disturbing and timely book focuses on on the use of disease and germs as a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) and the threat bioterro...

Hartlepool Through The Ages is a sister volume to Paul Chrystals Hartlepool Through Time, produced this time with Stan Laundon. Stan not only provi...

This book is different from other books on York. Contained within its pages are hugely appealing photographic glimpses of how people lived, worked ...

Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, worked in those factories. What is perhaps less well known is th...

As with everything else, there were good and bad Roman emperors. The good, like Trajan (98-117), Hadrian (117-138), Antoninus Pius (138-161) and Ma...

This book tells the intriguing story of the town of Northallerton in North Yorkshire. Covering events from the twelfth century through to today, it...

Paul Chrystal has written the first full length study of women and warfare in the Graeco Roman world. Although the conduct of war was generally mon...

A vibrant, accessible social history of Rome, from 753 BCE to the fall of the Empire some 1300 years later. To support its findings the book featur...

Buildings are among the crucial features that define a city. They create the cityscape and form the horizon while, at a more personal level, they p...