2010年7月9日 · The History Press is an independent non-fiction publisher. We seek to inform, entertain and champion untold stories and hidden voices across a variety of genres.

24th November, 2023 in Biography & Memoir, History, Special Editions. Solving the mystery of the Princes in the Tower. Following seven years of investigation and intelligence gathering, including archival searches around the world, Phase One of The Missing Princes Project is complete.The evidence uncovered suggests that both sons of Edward IV …

5th December, 2024 in History, Local & Family History. Women’s Land Army in Hampshire. John Lander author of new book Don’t Delay – Enrol Today highlights the importance of the women’s land army in Hampshire during both World Wars.World War 1The Women’s Land Army was established by the British government to recruit women and girls to work in Britain’s agriculture i…

Who we are The History Press is an independent non-fiction publisher based in the heart of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire – home also to one of the most prestigious literary festivals in the country. Our bestsellers include Victoria and Abdul, Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire, The Princes in the Tower, prettycitylondon […]

2018年6月22日 · On 21 June 1948, the former German cruise liner HMT Empire Windrush arrived in the UK at Tilbury Docks, Essex carrying passengers from the West Indies.The following day, in what has become a landmark in the history of modern Britain, Caribbean migrants from countries including Jamaica, Bermuda, Trinidad and British Guiana exited the Windrush and were among the first to be recruited to rebuild ...

2024年4月18日 · Were prehistoric people like us? How did they live, what did they think and how did they see their world? 3000 BC was a moment of great significance in the British Isles: Avebury, Stonehenge and many other major monuments were at vital stages in their construction and use, and writing – often regarded as the ultimate hallmark of civilisation – made its first appearance in Europe.

2025年1月27日 · March 5, 2025, Various dates and times, 24 Feb - 5 March. Portsmouth BookFest 2025 hosts five authors from The History Press. Portsmouth BookFest returns in 2025 with a host of literary events taking place across the city, and we’re thrilled to have the following five authors on the programme.

2024年3月7日 · What did the Romans do for us? Did King Arthur really exist? Who was Bloody Mary? Why did Great Britain go to war with Napoleon? Formed out of a union of warring Germanic kingdoms in the tenth century ad, England rose to become the most powerful nation in the world and the operations room of an empire spanning a quarter of the world’s land surface.

2022年9月26日 · The wall, one of the few constants in an ever-changing city, is built from courses of grey-green Kentish ragstone blocks. These were quarried 127km away to the east in the upper Medway Valley by the Classis Britannica Roman navy before being transported down the Medway and up the Thames.

1945 is a fresh look at the last year of the Second World War. Evoking the disorienting strangeness of the end and aftermath of war, it narrates the lives of fifty protagonists caught in the ruins of warfare. The effect is a dazzling kaleidoscope, showing how events affected a wide variety of individuals. From world […]