The History Press

21/11/2025

New in paperback!📚

'Egypt’s Golden Couple' is a journey through excavations, museums, hieroglyphic texts, and stunning artifacts. From clue to clue, renowned Egyptologists John and Colleen Darnell reconstruct an otherwise untold story of the magnificent reign of Akhenaten and Nefertiti.🏜️⛏️

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20/11/2025

Discover the Art & Legacy of Everest Pioneer Howard Somervell!🎨🥾

Selected for the 1922 Everest Expedition, Somervell captured the Himalayas, the Alps, and life on the mountain in incredible sketches and paintings as he carried his sketchbook everywhere. ⛰️

You can explore this collection, including the actual boots he wore on Everest, at the Heaton Cooper Studio in Grasmere, open until Sunday 23 November 2025. 🖼️

'First on Everest', is a long-overdue biography celebrating one of the early mountaineers took part in the first attempt to climb the mountain, and his oxygen-free height record in 1924 stood for over 50 years.🧗

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19/11/2025

Here, sits Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, with her sons, Albert, future husband of Queen Victoria, and Ernest, future duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.👩🧒👦

She lived a life full of heartbreak and controversy. She married at 16, but the union didn't last and when it collapsed, the court forced her into exile, barring her from returning to her sons. This was a scandal that reshaped her future, she spent her final years far from the world she once belonged to, and far from the children she loved.💍💔

Her story is moving, complicated, and often forgotten. Uncover the truth in 'Royal Outcast'📕: https://buff.ly/2hmCSfn

18/11/2025

New in paperback!✈️🪵

'The Art of Chopping and Burning Wood' wants to inspire, and teach, looking at the history of fire and showing the wonders that the burning flame can conjure.🪵

'Life of a Concorde Pilot' is the story of how, despite a somewhat turbulent start to life in a Middlesex orphanage, John would go on to fly the world’s only supersonic airliner.✈️

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Art of Chopping: https://buff.ly/Gjza5cC
Life of a Concorde Pilot: https://buff.ly/TT34EM9

17/11/2025

‘London’s Bastille is both fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable.’ - Fiona Rule, author of The Worst Street in London📚

This book explores the history of the prison and the stories of its inmates, from thieves and prostitutes to political reformers and naval mutineers. An extraordinary new insight into the forces of radical change that shook Britain to its core in the final years of the eighteenth century.🔐

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16/11/2025

Christmas is coming...!🎄❄️

Charles Dickens and Christmas go hand in hand. This festive season, step back in time with this delightful compilation to explore the delights of a Victorian Christmas through the eyes of a literary icon.✍️

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15/11/2025

Ten before the end of 2026!📚⭐

Here are ten book suggestions for you to read before the end of the year!🗓️ Which books would you pick to read by the end of the year?📗

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14/11/2025

Happy 77th Birthday to King Charles III!👑

On this day in 1948, King Charles was born at Buckingham Palace at 9:14 pm.👑🏰

At 73 years old at the time of his accession, he is the oldest person to assume the throne and the longest-serving heir apparent in British history!⭐

These photographs are featured, alongside hundreds of others, in 'Royal Film Performance: A Celebration'. Find them here: https://buff.ly/t0RWaZc fans

14/11/2025

Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media … sound familiar?

The UK experienced all this 100 years ago. 📻: Listen to today's Audio Long Read at The Guardian on Claude McKay's collaboration with Sylvia Pankhurst. Taken from the book INK! by Yvonne Singh.

Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media … Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too familiar to us todayBy Yvonne Singh. Read by Karl Queensborough

14/11/2025

"enthralling"

ICYMI: Read the of Children of The Wicker Man from The Mail on Sunday now and learn how the making of a cult classic also destroyed a family.

The wicker man shocked the world when it came out, but is the story behind the making of the cult classic more horrifying than the film?

13/11/2025

Happy Publication Day to 'Breaking the Glass Ceiling'!🥼🤩

From laying foundations for IVF to deciphering the structure of penicillin, women battled prejudice and hardship to break through the glass ceiling of science, paving the way for later generations of women to enjoy careers in areas traditionally dominated by men.

Discover the full story here: https://buff.ly/sTJWl4J

12/11/2025

On this day in 1865, Victorian novelist and biographer Elizabeth Gaskell passed away. 🕯️

A quiet revolutionary, Gaskell challenged the norms of her time by writing about gender inequality, class struggle, and the realities of industrial life. While many of her contemporaries focused on the drawing rooms of the upper class, she set her stories in working-class Manchester, and her female characters were sharp, compassionate, and unafraid to speak their minds about politics.🚺🏭

Elizabeth Gaskell was a literary trailblazer and sadly died mid-sentence while writing 'Wives and Daughters' 160 years ago today. 📖💐