Genealogy, Heraldry, Names & Honours

In feudal and early modern society, the nobility was a force of major importance. Yet despite its undeniable influence on the course of history, th...

In feudal and early modern society, the nobility was a force of major importance. Yet despite its undeniable influence on the course of history, th...

Autoethnography in the 21st Century offers interpretive, analytic, interactive, performative, experiential, and embodied forms of autoethnography f...

Historians and broadcasters Peter Snow and Ann Macmillan tell the real stories of the most powerful men and women in British history.From Alfred th...

This is the first book to help the many genealogists throughout the English-speaking world whose forebears may have been Huguenots. The religious r...

The First World War was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, and one of the most far-reaching. As a result, almost everyone’s family history ...

Of more than 600 Victoria Crosses awarded to British and Empire servicemen during the First World War, nineteen were awarded to airmen of the newly...

Sport, in its many forms, is an important part of British heritage and our family histories are littered with amateur and professional sporting ref...

WINNER OF THE EASTERN EYE AWARD FOR NON-FICTION'A brilliantly enlightening book'Michael Rosen'A kaleidoscopic portrait of the UK'Irish Times'I cann...

  The Times Children's Book of the Week 9th April 2023 Shortlisted for the Historical Association's Young Quills 2023 A...

For much of the First World War, the opposing armies on the Western Front were at a stalemate, with an unbroken line of fortified trenches stretchi...

At the end of 1917, after three years of trench warfare on the Western Front, the Allied armies of Britain and France, and those of their main oppo...

The landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 represented the greatest amphibious operation carried out during the course of the First W...

The predictions of the war 'being over by Christmas' turned out to be far from the truth. By January 1915 the British Expeditionary Force found the...

During the opening four months of the First World War no fewer than forty-six soldiers from the British and Commonwealth armies were awarded the Vi...

Towards the end of September 1918 the Allied armies were poised to seize the Hindenburg Line – the end of the war on the Western Front was at last ...

Dabbling in family history is a pastime anyone of any age can enjoy, but the massive proliferation of websites, magazines and books in recent years...

Gypsies have been a part of the British and European social fabric for centuries – and have faced prejudice and oppression for nearly as long, sinc...

Known the world over as a symbol of the United Kingdom, the Union Jack is an intricate construction based on the crosses of St George, St Andrew an...

By August 1918 fortune was on the side of the Allies: America was increasing its contribution of troops and equipment substantially; the morale of ...