Tag archieven: The History Press

Fotoboek, Luchtvaart, Vliegtuigen

Robbie Shaw – Concorde

Robbie Shaw Concorde review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van het fotoboek van het supersonische vliegtuig. Op 14 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij The History Press het fotoboek over het legendarische vliegtuig de Concorde. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Robbie Shaw Concorde review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Concorde, het boek van Robbie Shaw over het supersonische vliegtuig, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Robbie Shaw Concorde

Concorde

A Collection in Photographs

  • Auteur: Robbie Shaw (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: fotoboek over het Concorde vliegtuig
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: The History Press
  • Verschijnt: 14 augustus 2025
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: £ 25,00
  • Boek bestellen bij Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het fotoboek over het Concorde vliegtuig

There has never been another plane like Concorde. A product of post-war Anglo-French cooperation, its distinctive nose, classic lines and faster-than-sound speeds have embedded it in the hearts of aviation enthusiasts since its first flight in 1969.

Concorde: A Collection in Photographs is a compendium of the supersonic airliner’s life and career, from test flights to retirement day. Compiled by former air traffic controller and lifetime aviation enthusiast Robbie Shaw, it covers both British Airways and Air France Concorde aircraft and highlights the impressive collaboration between the two nations that resulted in such an important and beloved aircraft.

With more than 140 colour photographs, many of which have never been published before, this book is a stunning tribute to an icon whose like will never be seen again.

Robbie Shaw was an air traffic controller in both the RAF and National Air Traffic Services, also working as a tour leader for Ian Allan Aviation Tours for some years. He has written 28 aviation books across civil and military topics, and created the concept for Airliner World magazine (Key Publishing), working as a consultant for its first few years. He has written many articles for aviation magazines.

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Engelse geschiedenis, Geschiedenisboeken, Verenigd Koninkrijk

Tim Hames – Measuring Monarchy

Tim Hames Measuring Monarchy review, recensie en informatie boek over de meest overschatte en onderschatte Britse koningen en koninginnen. Op 24 juli 2025 verschijnt bij The History Press het boek van Tim Hames, de Britse journalist en schrijver. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Tim Hames Measuring Monarchy review en recensie

  • “Measuring Monarchy provides a completely original outlook as to how to analyse British Kings and Queens and throws a revisionist Molotov Cocktail into our historical thinking.” (Andrew Lownie)

Tim Hames Measuring Monarchy

Measuring Monarchy

The Most Overrated and Underrated British Kings and Queens

  • Auteur: Tim Hames (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Britse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: The History Press
  • Verschijnt: 24 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 16,99 / £ 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek van Tim Hames over de geschiedenis van het Britse koningshuis

Since 1066, there have been more than forty kings and queens of Britain (give or take a Cromwell, Scotland not included). They are a dazzling cast of characters, and we routinely debate over who deserves the title of greatest ruler in our long history. From William the Conqueror to Henry V, Elizabeth I, Victoria and latterly Elizabeth II – their lives tell the story of our nation.

But how exactly do you measure a monarch?

Measuring Monarchy provides a completely original outlook as to how to analyse British kings and queens and throws a revisionist Molotov cocktail into our historical thinking. It puts forward and explains the case for five comparative metrics for all UK monarchs: their professional standing, their popular standing with the public, their impact on public finances, how they conducted foreign policy and their preparations for succession.

Tim Hames casts a forensic eye over fifteen key kings and queens, determining whether their status has been overrated or underrated. What is revealed may surprise you, and some overlooked monarchs are returned to their rightful standing.

Tim Hames began his career as an academic, lecturing in Politics at Oxford University, before moving into journalism as an Assistant Editor and political columnist for The Times. He has published widely. More recently, he has been the co-author (with Dame Kate Bingham) of the Sunday Times Business Bestseller The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain. He is the co-founder of Acuti Associates, a geopolitical consulting firm, and in that light he is the author of Trump II: Why He Won. What It Means For The World.

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Geschiedenisboeken, Ierland

Tom O’Neill, Paul Busteed & Eugene Power – The War of Independence in East Cork

Tom O’Neill, Paul Busteed & Eugene Power The War of Independence in East Cork review, recensie en informatie boek over de Ierse onafhankelijkheidsoorlog in Cork. Op 6 november 2025 verschijnt bij The History Press het boek The War of Independence in East Cork.

Tom O’Neill, Paul Busteed & Eugene Power The War of Independence in East Cork review, recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review The War of Independence in East Cork, geschreven door Tom O’Neill, Paul Busteed & Eugene Power, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Tom O'Neill, Paul Busteed & Eugene Power The War of Independence in East Cork

The War of Independence in East Cork

  • Auteurs: Tom O’Neill, Paul Busteed, Eugene Power (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: Ierse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: The History Press
  • Verschijnt: 6 november 2025
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 20,99 / £ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over de Ierse onafhankelijkheidsoorlog in Cork

East Cork was a very dangerous area during the Irish War of Independence. Several major and minor actions between the IRA and Crown Forces took place there during 1920 and 1921, including the first RIC Barracks to be captured and destroyed at Carrigtwohill. Other significant events include the capture of Castlemartyr and Cloyne RIC barracks, the ambush at Mile Bush near Midleton where a British Army bicycle patrol was relieved of their weapons, and the IRA ambush of an RIC foot patrol in Midleton. This period also saw the first official reprisals, the disastrous battle at Clonmult, the Cobh quarry attack, and the Bunker Hill ambush.

This book includes all the major and minor engagements between the IRA and Crown Forces; the actions described have never before been so extensively researched and published in such a comprehensive and balanced fashion.

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Engeland, Engelse geschiedenis

Mike O’Connor – The Little History of Storytelling in Cornwall

Mike O’Connor The Little History of Storytelling in Cornwall review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van het boek met verhalen uit het Engelse graafschap. Op 3 juli 2025 verschijnt bij The History Press het boek The Little History of Storytelling in Cornwall. Het boek is geschreven door Mike O’Connor.

Mike O’Connor The Little History of Storytelling in Cornwall review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van The Little History of Storytelling in Cornwall, het boek van Mike O’Connor, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Mike O'Connor The Little History of Storytelling in Cornwall

The Little History of Storytelling in Cornwall

  • Auteur: Mike O’Connor (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: boek met verhalen over Cornwall
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: The History Press
  • Reeks: The Little History
  • Verschijnt: 3 juli 2025
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 12,99 / £ 6,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over verhalen vertellen in Cornwall

Cornwall’s storytelling tradition stretches back a thousand years. Before TV and radio, stories were told among the flickering shadows at the fireside. They whiled away the travellers’ miles, long hours in the fields, and days at sea. They gladdened brief moments of relaxation for miners and bal-maidens. Travelling storytellers wandered from village to village swapping words for supper, and a rich local dialect brought the tales to life. Classic Cornish tales such as the Mermaid of Zennor and Jan Tregeagle are wonderfully entertaining, and collectively tell us much about Cornwall, its people, and its history.

Join accomplished storyteller, scholar and writer Mike O’Connor as he explores the ‘when, where, and why’ of Cornish folk tales and celebrates the rich traditions and cultural legacy of hwedhlow.

Mike O’Connor is a powerful and engaging storyteller who performs at many events across the country. An important researcher into Cornish music and folklore, he has been awarded the OBE and made a bard of the Gorsedh of Kernow.

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Dieren, Dierenboeken, Memoir

Paul Heiney – One Man and His Hog

Paul Heiney One Man and His Hog review, recensie en informatie boek en memoir met het verhaal van een varken genaamd Alice. Op 30 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij The History Press het nieuwe boek van Paul Heiney de Engelse schrijver, journalist en radiomaker.

Paul Heiney One Man and His Hog review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van One Man and His Hog, The Story of a Pig Called Alice, geschreven door Paul Heiney, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Paul Heiney One Man and His Hog

One Man and His Hog

The Story of a Pig Called Alice

  • Auteur: Paul Heiney (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: memoir, dierenboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: The History Press
  • Verschijnt: 30 oktober 2025
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 10,99 / £ 5,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst memoir en boek van Paul Heiney over zijn varken

‘To call Alice “just another pig” would be the gravest insult.’

Alice the Large Black pig was Paul Heiney’s best friend, his confidante and his therapist. This is the story of their tempestuous relationship with all its ups-and-downs, from her arrival as a ‘large, black and expensive’ Christmas present for his wife to her last days as the matriarch of his traditional farm.

In One Man and His Hog, Heiney walks us through why lop-eared pigs are the best to raise (they can’t see you coming), how to escape a sow that’s decided you’re her next mate (throw a bucket and run), and how, actually, pigs might have just got this whole ‘life’ situation sorted out.

Paul Heiney is a writer, broadcaster and journalist. Most recently he has been the presenter of ITV’s Countrywise, and BBC’s Watchdog. He has been an organic farmer, working his land with heavy horses, this experience forming the basis of his long-running column in The Times. He is also the author of several best-selling books, including Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?

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Engelse geschiedenis, Geschiedenisboeken, Schotland, Schotse schrijver

Nick Aitchison – Scotland’s Stone of Destiny

Nick Aitchison Scotland’s Stone of Destiny review, recensie en informatie boek over de steen waarop van de 9e tot de 13e eeuw alle Schotse koningen werden gekroond. Op 27 november 2025 verschijnt bij The History Press het boek van Nick Aitchinson over het beroemdste symbool van zowel de Schotse nationaliteit als de Britse monarchie, Stone of Destiny ook wel Stone of Scone genoemd. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Nick Aitchison Scotland’s Stone of Destiny review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Scotland’s Stone of Destiny, het boek van de Schotse historicus Nick Aitchison, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Nick Aitchison Scotland's Stone of Destiny

Scotland’s Stone of Destiny

  • Auteur: Nick Aitchison (Schotland)
  • Soort boek: Schotse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: The History Press
  • Verschijnt: 27 november 2025
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: £ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van The Stone of Destiny

Scotland’s ‘Stone of Destiny’ is the most famous symbol of both Scottish nationhood and the British monarchy.

Nick Aitchison has produced the first fully researched and illustrated study of its history, mythology and cultural significance. Having first traced the origin, evolution and function of myths surrounding the Stone and the ancient prophecy that gives the Stone its name, he examines the stone itself and for the first time reveals the Stone’s original function and the origins of its symbolic sanctity.

The Stone’s historic contexts and its role in royal inauguration and coronation rituals are also discussed, including an analysis of the rich symbolism surrounding the Stone and its changing nature over time. The book concludes with a discussion of the Stone’s symbolic significance with the creation of the Scottish parliament.

Nick Aitchison took his degree (in Archaeology and Scottish History) at the University of Glasgow, where he also gained his PhD. His research interests focus on kingship and royal and religious centres in early medieval Scotland. His previous publications include Forteviot: a Pictish and Scottish Royal Centre and the critically-acclaimed Macbeth: Man and Myth. Dr Aitchison is currently conducting research on early medieval Scone, its environs and associated royal centres.

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Berlijn, Geschiedenisboeken

Joseph Pearson – The Airlift

Joseph Pearson The Airlift review, recensie en informatie boek over overwinningen, mythen en de blokkade van Berlijn in 1948 en 1949. Op 23 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij The History Press, The Airlift, Victories, Myths, and the Berlin Blockade. Het boek is geschreven door de in Canada geboren historicus Joseph Pearson. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Joseph Pearson The Airlift review en recensie

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Joseph Pearson The Airlift

The Airlift

Victories, Myths, and the Berlin Blockade

  • Auteur: Joseph Pearson (Canada)
  • Soort boek: Berlijn boek, geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: The History Press
  • Verschijnt: 23 oktober 2025
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 22,00 / £ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de blokkade van Berlijn in 1948 en 1949

Berlin, 1948-9. Airmen who had spent the Second World War dropping bombs on the city now risked their lives dropping chocolate bars; German citizens looked to the skies not with dread and hatred, but with hope and admiration. Through a deeply human lens, this fascinating new book investigates how lasting new battlelines were formed in the war-torn city.

This is not a standard military history; The Airlift uses extensive archives and interviews to interweave everyday characters’ tales into an extraordinary story. They include an American pilot crashing in Soviet territory, a Jewish photographer struggling to reconcile with the Germans, the 17,000 women who built Tegel Airport, Cambridge University actors performing in the ruins for British intelligence, Hollywood star Montgomery Clift filming at Tempelhof airport, and a Berlin girl trying to outrun the boys reaching for chocolate.

By uncovering untapped sources in both German and Anglo-American archives, Dr Pearson gives a unique and textured portrait of a city during the Cold War’s first major conflict through the lives of real individuals. The Berlin Airlift wrote the playbook of the Cold War, and it still influences Western thinking and diplomacy with Russia to this day.

Joseph Pearson was born in Canada, studied at Middlebury College in Vermont and has a doctorate in Modern History from the University of Cambridge. He taught at Columbia University and currently lectures at the Barenboim-Said Akademie and New York University in Berlin. He is the author of My Grandfather’s Knife (The History Press) and Berlin (Reaktion Books), a portrait of the city in which he now lives and works.

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Muziek, Popmuziek

Andrew Cook – Capitol Gains

Andrew Cook Capitol Gains review, recensie en informatie van het boek over het conflict tussen The Beatles en het platenlabel dat hen maakte. Op 23 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij The History Press het boek Capitol Gains: Exposing the Conflict Between The Beatles and the Record Label that Made Them. Het boek is geschreven door Andrew Cook. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Andrew Cook Capitol Gains review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Capitol Gains: Exposing the Conflict Between The Beatles and the Record Label that Made Them, geschreven door Andrew Cook, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Andrew Cook Capitol Gains

Capitol Gains

Exposing the Conflict Between The Beatles and the Record Label that Made Them

  • Auteur: Andrew Cook (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: muziekboek over The Beatles
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: The History Press
  • Verschijnt: 23 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 20,00 / £ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over het conflict tussen The Beatles en hun platenlabel

A chance remark on the stairs at Peter Morris Music in London’s Denmark Street, in October 1963, set off a chain reaction that helped Brian Epstein apply some much-needed leverage on America’s Hollywood-based Capitol label. Although February 1963 marked the Beatles’ breakthrough in Britain, by the closing months of that year they still had not conquered America. Their manager Brian Epstein had been fighting what seemed like a losing battle to persuade Capitol to release the band’s records in America. How did that chance encounter eventually force Capitol’s hand?

When the Beatles eventually hit the big time in the US in February 1964, both Epstein and Capitol executives obscured the true story behind it. However, corporate and personal archives now reveal the reality behind this and much more, also lifting the lid on the fact that Capitol viewed the British record industry as being 30 years behind the times, and set out to remix UK master tapes and create distinct US albums. While Capitol’s strategy made the Beatles rich beyond their wildest dreams, Epstein is shown as often struggling to balance Capitol’s commercial decisions against the Beatles’ own demands. This account also explores Capitol’s PR efforts to protect the Beatles image as they were caught up in the whirlwind of worldwide success.

Andrew Cook is an author and TV consultant with a degree in History & Ancient History. He was a programme director of the Hansard Scholars Programme for the University of London. Andrew has written for The Times, Guardian, Independent, BBC History Magazine and History Today.

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Biografie, Engeland, Engelse geschiedenis, Feminisme

Amy Gray – Red Duchess Kitty Atholl

Amy Gray Red Duchess Kitty Atholl biografie review, recensie en informatie van het boek over de eerste vrouwelijke MP in Schotland. Op 18 september 2025 verschijnt bij The History Press de biografie van Kitty Atholl, A Rebel in Westminster. Het boek is geschreven door Amy Gray.

Amy Gray Red Duchess Kitty Atholl biografie review en recensie

  • “With this admirable book, Amy Gray puts the Duchess of Atholl back where she belongs, in the front row of twentieth century politics. Meticulous research and illuminating use of contemporary sources make Red Duchess a fascinating and hugely valuable addition to the political and social history of the period.” (Professor John Bew)
  • “Before Margaret Thatcher, before Barbara Castle, there was Katharine Stewart-Murray, the ‘Red Duchess’ of Atholl and one of the great female pioneers of UK politics. Amy Gray’s deeply-researched biography compellingly reconstructs her moral clarity, her unequivocal human rights campaigns against the “twin totalitarianisms” of Fascism and Communism, and her profound impact on the lives of glittering contemporaries such as Winston Churchill and Samuel Coleridge Taylor. In Gray, this unjustly forgotten heroine has finally found the biographer she deserves.” (Kate Malby)

Amy Gray Red Duchess Kitty Atholl

Red Duchess

Kitty Atholl, A Rebel in Westminster

  • Auteur: Amy Gray (Schotland)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal; Engels
  • Uitgever: The History Press
  • Verschijnt: 18 september 2025
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs:  £ 22,00 /  £ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van Kitty Atholl

A pioneering female politician who thought women didn’t need the vote; a Conservative who shared platforms with communists; a shy public speaker who travelled the world speaking for Spanish refugees: the formidable Duchess of Atholl was full of contradictions.

Born into an ancient Scottish family and married to a philandering duke, Kitty rose above the constraints of class and convention to become a tireless advocate for women and children. By her election as the first Scottish female MP in 1923, she was one of the most prominent women in Scotland – and that was well before she shocked Westminster with outspoken rebellions against her own government.

She stood with Spanish refugees and challenged fascism, visited war zones and campaigned with her political opponents, criticised tyrants and wrote her own political playbook. In Red Duchess Kitty Atholl’s extraordinary life is brought to the spotlight she has long deserved – a compelling story of courage, conviction and a woman who refused to play by the rules.

Amy Gray has spent fifteen years working in public affairs and politics and has stood for Parliament twice. She splits her time between Cambridge and Scotland with her husband and two children.

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Spoorwegen, Treinen

Michael R. Bailey – Locomotion No. 1

Michael R. Bailey Locomotion No. 1 review, recensie en informatie boek met het ware verhaal van ’s werelds eerste stoomlocomotief voor publiek passagiersvervoer. Op 18 september 2025 verschijnt bij The History Press in samenwerking met The Railway Museum, het boek over Locomotion No. 1, the True Story of the World’s First Public Service Steam Locomotive. Het boek is geschreven door Michael R. Bailey en Peter H. Davidson.

Michael R. Bailey Locomotion No. 1 review en recensie

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Michael R. Bailey Locomotion No. 1

Locomotion No. 1

The True Story of the World’s First Public Service Steam Locomotive

  • Auteurs: Michael R. Bailey, Peter H. Davidson (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: spoorweggeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: The History Press
  • Verschijnt: 18 september 2025
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 25,00 / £ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de eerste stoomlocomotief Locomotion No. 1

In 1825 the Stockton & Darlington Railway began operations as the world’s first public railway to be operated by steam. The first train, that opened the railway on the 27th September, was drawn by the locomotive that became known as Locomotion No.1, and from this origin all public railways the world over developed to become the driving force behind economic progress.

The brief history that accompanied the locomotive’s preservation in 1857 was both inadequate and factually incorrect. In anticipation of the railway’s bicentenary a major archival and archaeological study was initiated by the National Railway Museum to establish the true history of the locomotive both in service and during retirement. This is the story revealed by the study.

Michael R. Bailey is a railway historian who has undertaken projects for museums in England, Canada and Denmark. He writes and lectures (and occasionally acts as a TV consultant) and was a consultant to UNESCO regarding the Rhaetian Railway’s application for World Heritage status. He is a member of the Newcomen Society, and was its president 1995 – 1997. He was a Trustee of the Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester and remains president of the museum Friends, and is a vice-president of the Stephenson Locomotive Society.

Peter H. Davidson’s career has been in mechanical engineering, and in design and construction of miniature locomotives. A consultant to the National Railway Museum and other museums in Britain, he has experience with four archaeological and archival studies (with Michael Bailey) of early steam locomotives. He was co-author of Canterbury & Whitstable Railway – Invicta Locomotive (2020), and has written several papers on early railway technology.

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