Books published by Pen & Sword Books Ltd

From the Middle-Ages onwards, London's notorious Bedlam lunatic hospital saw the city's 'mad' locked away in dank cells, neglected and abused and without any real cure and little comfort.

Macramé expert Amaia Martin, from La Terra Macramé, has created 20 unique projects to introduce you to this millenary art and make you fall in love with it!

The ascent of the Plantagenets to the English throne in 1154 led to the beginning of a new historical phase in the British Isles, which was marked by numerous wars that were fought between the Kingdom of England and the 'Celtic nations' of Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

Illegitimate son to Edward IV and the uncle of Henry VIII, Arthur Plantagenet's life is an intriguing story. Raised in his father's court, he then became a prominent figure at the court of Henry VIII. Arthur Plantagenet's story gives a whole new, fresh perspective on a turbulent yet vibrant period of history.

This book explores both the monarchy and everyday life, covering everything from famous scandals, morality and contraception to Tudor fashion and attempts to cure sexual disease.

This book provides a comprehensive study of the planning and building of railways in London's Docklands, reflecting on the past 180 years of railway development.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel has always been regarded as one of Britain's great heroes and an engineering genius.

Thousands of women and children were among those who struggled to leave Singapore just before capitulation on February 15, 1942; their hope was to reach safety. For many that hope was never realized as countless numbers drowned as ships were bombed. This is the story of two very different women fleeing on those last ships.

In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army career, research for this book commenced and over the years numerous sources have been consulted.

A great nursing reformer, Ethel Gordon Fenwick was born before the age of the motor car and died at the start of the jet age.

The wartime career of this cruel and capable man is captured brilliantly with contemporary fully captioned images in this Images of War series work.

Through the combination of rigorous fashion history research, intriguing images and well-informed, but approachable, writing, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the fascinating "Egyptomania" phenomenon that, to this day, continues to have a mesmerizing appeal.

In the mid-3rd century AD Roman Britain's regional fleet, the Classis Britannica, disappeared. It was never to return. Soon the North Sea and English Channel were over-run by Germanic pirates preying upon the east and south coast of Britain, and the continental coast up to the Rhine Delta.

In the prelude to the privatization of BR the Provincial Sector (later Regional Railways) became responsible for local / secondary train services and initiated the refurbishment of 31 Class 37 locomotives, fitted with train heating equipment - hence designated Class 37/4 - to support the shortfall of DMU trainsets.

This is an exploration into the life, illness and unusually early death of Henry VIII's overshadowed son. The author uses her expertise in Tudor medical history to investigate and provide an in-depth analysis of the prevailing theories of what might have killed the otherwise healthy young Tudor before he reached adulthood.

The book looks at London's maritime history from the establishment of Roman Londinium to the present day.

In recent years, the work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers has caught the public's imagination with books and films. While men such as Alan Turing and Dilly Knox have been recognized, Brigadier John Tiltman has been hardly mentioned.

While much has been written about the Battle of Britain, the air war over France and the Low Countries from September 1939 to June 1940 has been largely neglected - until now.

Cultivated from a small, faded, address book secretly written by a young soldier in the Royal Army Service Corps, this book is a POW story of adventure, courage, resilience and luck.

In this book, Norman Ridley reveals the remarkable efforts made by the tiny, underfunded and often side-lined British intelligence services as they sought to inform those whose role it was to make decisions upon which the wheels of history turned.

Billy Sing was a small, dark man and a deadly killer. When, as a member of the Australian Imperial Force 5th Light Horse, he was thrust onto the narrow strip of land held by the Australians on Gallipoli, he witnessed the terrible effects of the Turkish snipers and decided to fight fire with fire.

Written from the unique perspective of a fast jet cockpit, this book captures the essence of what it was really like to fly a Tornado at the front-line of the Cold War in Germany and on operations over Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf War.

In this, his second work of autobiographical memoir, Auton provides an enthralling first-hand account of intrigue, assassination, espionage and shameful betrayal on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

Only full length biography of Maximinus Thrax in English.