Tweeting all things family & social history related for @PenSwordBooks, including our ever-expanding Tracing Your Ancestors series & the P&S History imprint.
Yorkshire, UK
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🍂 The leaves are falling… and so are the prices! 📚🍁
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History book of the day
The Black Death in England: Journal of the Plague Years in the Fourteenth Century
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#NewBook 📖 - Victorian Scandals on Trial
Discover the shocking cases that gripped Victorian society in Victorian Scandals on Trial, using contemporary trial records, pamphlets and newspaper reports to bring these courtroom dramas to life ⚖️👀
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#NewBook 📖 - The Border Mafia
For centuries, the Anglo-Scottish border was plagued by conflict and crime. Discover the brutal reality of the Border Reivers, whose crimes ranged from livestock theft and robbery to kidnapping and murder.
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👻 Ghost stories, eerie encounters and haunted halls… 🏰
Neil R. Storey shares his five favourite haunted English castles in this spooky guest post inspired by England’s Haunted Castles.
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#NewBook 📖 - Hitler's Finishing School
📚 Hitler’s Finishing School reveals the story of Augusta Victoria College, a Nazi-linked finishing school in 1930s Bexhill that educated the daughters of Nazi leaders and German aristocracy.
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🎃 New on the P&S Halloween Blog Takeover 👻
Could scientists really bring a murderer back from the dead? 👀
Laura Silverman explores the chilling story behind The Real Frankenstein in our latest guest post ➡️ buff.ly/uMB6NCm
#NewBook 📖 - York Castle Prison
🏰 For nearly 750 years, York Castle was at the heart of crime and punishment in Yorkshire. From witches and pirates to thieves and murderers, discover its history and its role in Britain's justice system.
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🎃 New on the P&S Halloween Blog Takeover!
Roger Ede explores the darker side of Victorian history in this guest post inspired by his book Victorian Scandals on Trial 👀📖
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Lucy died about now in October 1658 & it's wonderful that Charles II's Secret Queen can finally let her rest without James II's & Macpherson's cloud. Finding Lucy's last resting place was not easy & this is 95% probably it.
Out now from @penswordbooks @PSHistory
#LucyTuesday
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#NewBook 📖 - Murder and Mayhem in Late Medieval England
⚔️ Step into violent late medieval England, where feuds, murder, abductions and criminal gangs were commonplace.
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The moment has arrived; I have my copies of Lucy. Let's have a quick look inside Charles II's Secret Queen from @penswordbooks @PSHistory
The treasonous truth is out. I hope you enjoy Lucy.
@17thCenturyLady #17thCentury #SecretQueen #KingCharlesII #RestorationHistory
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Now Lucy's secret is out, for my penultimate #LucyTuesday I'll be sharing her last resting place. It's in the book, but this Tuesday's short story will make it real & hopefully lay her to rest.
Charles II's Secret Queen from @penswordbooks @PSHistory
@17thCenturyLady
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#OTD in 1216: 810 years ago.
In one of his last acts before his death later that night, King John appointed Nicholaa de la Haye, the hereditary castellan of Lincoln Castle, as Sheriff of Lincolnshire in her own right.
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