Errant Historian to be published 10 September 2026
ISBN 978-1-0683363-4-8 paperback £15.00 245pp
Francis J West’s memoir of his life and journey across several continents
Then … And Now Again: Trauma and turbulence in 1931 and today 2025
ISBN 978-1-0683363-0-0 paperback £12.00 132pp
also available as an e-book ISBN 978-1-0683363-2-4 £8.00
Willy Brandt, Bruno Kreisky and Olof Palme – Letters and Conversations 1972 to 1975 2024
ISBN 978-1-7399497-2-3 paperback £16.00 ix+262pp The first English translation of ‘Briefe und Gespräche 1972 bis 1975’ comprising their ten letters and two meetings. Includes the original German text published in 1975 by Europäische Verlagsanstalt (EVA).
Labour, Lancashire and the 1924 government: Its rise, fall and parallels with today 2024
ISBN 978-1-7392067-8-9 paperback £5.00 iv+44pp Labour in 1924, its Lancashire core after the 1923 election in both the party and its first government Cabinet, and the parallels with today.
Two Texans, Two World Wars 2023
ISBN 978-1-7392067-0-3 paperback £6.00 iv+72pp Two memoirs of military service with the US army in World Wars I and II , edited by Kathy Donneson.
e-book from October 2023 ISBN 978-1-7392067-1-0 £4.00
Cloudscapes over England: 1st November 2021 to 31st October 2022 2023
ISBN 978-1-7399497-0-9 hardback £20.00 ii+94pp From Cornwall and Devon in the south-west to Northumberland and Durham in the north-east, 46 pages of colour photographs by ten photographers of cloudscapes over England between 1st November 2021 to 31st October 2022, the UK’s warmest year on record.
Born into Socialism 2022
ISBN 978-1-7399497-1-6 paperback £5.00 iv+48pp 14 illustrations Walter Smith’s memoir of growing up in a socialist family and community in West Bromwich, the ‘Black Country’.
The 2020 Coro-Nation Diaries – Worlds Turned Upside Down 2020
ISBN 978-1-9998510-8-8 paperback £10.00 xii+164pp 3 illustrations A factual record of national developments compiled daily alongside twenty diaries over four months of the UK coronavirus pandemic March-July 2020, in other words Phase 1 of the Covid-19 outbreak in the UK. Many people, including the diarists, have welcomed having both together.
It remains available as a free pdf [see Home page] that can be searched electronically, so – unlike all our other books – there is no index.
1974 – A World in Flux 2020
ISBN 978-1-9998510-6-4 hardback £15.99 NOW £12.00 xii+180pp 3 illustrations Joe Brydon on the epoch-shattering events in a year of global trauma – including Nixon’s and Brandt’s resignations, a Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the end of the Greek junta, the revolution in Portugal and its impact in Africa, military coups in South America and Ethiopia, Britain’s renegotiation of its EEC membership and the imminent collapse of South Vietnam.
1900 Liverpool Lives: The Threads That Bind 2019
ISBN 978-1-9998510-2-6 paperback £10.00 ix+182pp 15 illustrations The history of everyday lives, contrasting the people who lived in two streets in Liverpool – six miles but different worlds apart, yet both having strong women in their midst.
Making the Heavens Hum
– the first biography of Kingsley Wood, Churchill’s Chancellor of the Exchequer in World War II
Part 2 – Kingsley Wood: Scenes from a Political Life 2017
ISBN 978-0-9562041-9-6 hardback covering the years 1925-1943 £25.00 NOW £20.00 xvi+564pp
Part 1 – Kingsley Wood and the Art of the Possible 2014
ISBN 978-0-9562041-7-2 hardback covering the years 1881-1924 £18.00 NOW £15.00 xii + 276pp
The Quirky Dr Fay: A Remarkable Life 2011
ISBN 978-0-9562041-5-8 paperback £11.99 NOW £10.00 x + 244pp The first biography of Charles Ryle Fay the economic historian and advocate of co-operation
Living History: A Family’s 19th Century 2010
ISBN 978-0-9562041-1-0 paperback £14.99 NOW £12.00 viii + 310pp about the assassinated Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, his wife Jane Wilson and their twelve adult children; their impact on the nineteenth century and it on them
1809: Between Hope and History 2009
ISBN 978-0-9562041-0-3 paperback £14.99 NOW £10.00 xii + 253pp The impetus to reform in the years 1806 to 1812, between the governments of William Pitt and Lord Liverpool e-book from December 2022 ISBN 978-1-7399497-8-5 £7.00