How to Survive in the Georgian Navy

Bruno Pappalardo • £8.99

This book is an exploration of a life at sea in the time of Captain Cook and Admiral Nelson, covering topics as wide-ranging as science, exploration, mutiny, and discipline, focusing on the period from 1714 to 1820. This ‘Sailor’s Guide’ explores the lives of the Navy’s officers and sailors, using extracts from contemporary documents and writings.

Tracing Your Oxfordshire Ancestors

Nicola Lisle • £14.99
Pen & Sword

Oxfordshire has a proud history as an agricultural county, relying for centuries on the wool trade for its prosperity. It is also famous for the founding of Oxford University in the 11th century and for the Morris Motors car factory established in Oxford in 1912. Discover Your Ancestors regular writer Nicola Lisle tells the county’s story and explores the variety of records available to family historians with roots in the county.

Memories of Rural Lincolnshire Families and the Gentleman Executioner

Rosita Bird • £6.99

This book features the memories of Lincolnshire families, specifically, the Clark, Grebby, Marwood and Knight families. It vividly brings to life rural Lincolnshire told through newspaper articles, and personal memories, of the past. The life of a national celebrity of the time, the official executioner William Marwood, is documented, along with his humane development of the hitherto hit-andmiss business of execution.

Rebel With a Cause

Iain Gordon • £25
Pen & Sword

This book explores the life and times of social reformer and suffragette Sarah Benett (1850-1924), who spent a decade campaigning to improve working conditions in the Potteries.