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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...

This illustrated history portrays one of Englands most fascinating cities. It provides a nostalgic look at Kingston upon Hulls past and highlights ...

Middlesbrough may have only been a hamlet in the early nineteenth century, but that all changed with the arrival of the Stockton & Darlington R...

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...

The North York Moors is one of Britain's most beautiful and picturesque rural areas. This book provides an at-a-glance picture of some of the towns...

From its days as a major fishing and whaling port, through Second World War bomb damage and post-industrial decline to its current status as UK Cit...

Bramhall is a thriving, bustling and leafy suburb of Stockport, close to Manchester. It has been voted the least lonely place in Britain; according...

The history of women in ancient Rome is fascinating and exhilarating. It gives a unique insight into one of the worlds most dynamic, successful sup...

Knaresborough History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this north Yorkshire market town. Local author and historian Paul Ch...

Rome: Republic into Empire looks at the political and social reasons why Rome repeatedly descended into civil war in the early 1st century BCE and ...