Pen & Sword Social History
Our new social history imprint will publish titles aimed at history lovers and family historians eager to flesh out their research.Pen and Sword Social History titles will reveal what life was like in the past for ordinary people through their own voices.
Titles feature a wide range of themes, from life on the Home Front to the experiences of a Victorian detective fighting crime in Manchester's slums.
Commissioning editor Jen Newby regularly tweets about the imprint via @SocialhistoryPS.
Email Jen for more information or to submit a book proposal: socialhistory@pen-and-sword.co.uk
Here's a sneak preview of some of the topics covered in our forthcoming titles, all due out in 2014:
• The untold stories of First World War conscientious objectors
• Divorce, beheading or wife sale - how marriages were ended in England 1500-1849
• The Victorian asylum - a patient's view
• Scotland's hidden heroines through history
• Historical frauds through the ages
• The 'Real Sherlock Holmes' of nineteenth century Manchester
• Soldiers' letters from the First World War
• A street-level view of crime in Victorian London
• One thousand years of British fashion
• The legacy of the First World War for British mental health
• Guides to life in Victorian and Jane Austen era England
• The Second World War as seen through a soldier's eyes
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