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Gretchen Friemann

Gretchen Friemann is an author and award-winning journalist. She holds a Masters in International History from Trinity College Dublin, and her first book, The Treaty, is a narrative history of the 1921 Anglo Irish negotiations that brought about Ireland’s independence and led to the civil war.

Gretchen Friemann

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The Fight for Parry’s Jerusalem

William Blake’s great poem, along with Hubert Parry’s rousing music, has become an unofficial anthem but it has a complex back story.

Jason Whitaker

The Fight for Parry’s Jerusalem On March 11, 1916, Sir Hubert Parry handed a manuscript that would transform how the English saw themselves to his friend, Henry Walford Davies, with the rather casual words: “Here’s a tune for you, old chap. Do what you like with it.”...

Guidl

The advent of a new way of consuming the history – and architecture, and much else – all around us.

Robert Lyman

Have you ever wondered about the history of a building or a place as you rush past, busy with life, and have never had the opportunity to stop and investigate it further? Millions of people walking through the U.K.’s towns, cities and landscapes every single day of...

A Cycling Tour of Flanders Field

Our editor cycled around northern France and Belgium recently, and here is his story.

Oliver Webb-Carter

A Cycling Tour of Flanders Field Our team of three set off from the town of Calais, destination Ypres, having spent a glorious night there. Dinner at L’Histoire Ancienne had featured one of our company attempting to help with Anglo-French relations by speaking his...

Summer Reads from Sharpe Books

Summer Reads from Sharpe Books' authors. Recommended history and historical fiction.

Summer Reads from Sharpe BooksAlan Bardos Author of The Dardanelles ConspiracyThe Unseen Enemy by Tom Walker, is a perfect summer read invoking Sunday afternoons watching a black and white war film. Tom Walker effortlessly brings to life an RAF squadron in World War...

The Real Press

The Real Press publishes fiction and non-fiction with a historical edge. We publish short books, ebooks and print-on-demand books that fit with our values and philosophy, and which seem likely to encourage debate about what really matters. These are available on Amazon and elsewhere, but also here in our shop.

Sharpe Books

Books Click on any of the books covers below to either buy or get more information on Amazon From the Publisher The Real Press publishes fiction and non-fiction with a historical edge. We publish short books, ebooks and print-on-demand books that fit with our values...

Fiction Book of the Month: Alan Bardos on The Assassins

The writer talks about the first in his WW1 trilogy of novels.

Alan Bardos

Alan Bardos, The Assassins was your first novel, set during the build-up to WW1. What is it about the period that is so interesting to you? I think it’s the feeling that the people living through that period were on borrowed time while experiencing an age of great...

2023 Summer Reads from Aspects of History

Our authors and contributors recommend books to take on summer holidays.

Summer Reads from Aspects of HistoryAlan Bardos Author of The Dardanelles ConspiracyQueen High by CJ Carey is the sequel to Widow Land and a counter factual/dystopian novel; in a similar vein to 1984, Fatherland and Brave New World. It is set in a 1950s Britain that...

Unionism & The Treaty

Ulster leader James Craig thought he had beaten Lloyd George during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.

Gretchen Friemann

Unionism & The Treaty The Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921 led to civil war in Ireland as those for and against descended into bitter conflict. But what of Northern Ireland, established in May 1921? There were plans to include Ulster politicians in an...

Conquer We Must, by Robin Prior

A highly readable account of Britain's military history incorporating both world wars.

Robert Lyman

This is a superb and highly readable account of the development of the often tumultuous relationships between Britain’s political and military leaders over 31-years, starting with Sarajevo in 1914 and ending with Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Britain and its empire...