Independent publisher of historical non-fiction. Follow us for stories pulled from the archives. HobnobPress.co.ukhttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3m4fv7glf722yIt is Halloween🎃tomorrow!! And we have the perfect 👻read.... https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/the-rise-of-the-english-poltergeist-by-andrew-pickering30 Oct 2025 11:45 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4fv7glf722yhttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3m3wiap6dtc2fWe love this book! Discover Compton Chamberlayne's hidden past—centuries of feudal life, family conflicts & rural struggles in Wilts chalk country. Through manor records, wills & court cases, explore how forgotten families shaped this village. #LocalHistory https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/these-humble-unremembered-lives-stories-of-families-passing-through-compton-chamberlayne-by-elise-langdon-neuner24 Oct 2025 08:44 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3wiap6dtc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3m3whvx7h4s2fAnother new title. This history of 120 inns and other drinking establishments, past and present in Weymouth, Dorset, details the many families who ran them, drank in them, and were hauled out of them by the constable to appear in the police courts. https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/booze-brawls-and-bawds-a-social-history-of-weymouth-inns-by-mick-davis24 Oct 2025 08:38 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3whvx7h4s2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3m3whv7odjc2fAnother new title. This history of 120 inns and other drinking establishments, past and present in Weymouth, Dorset, details the many families who ran them, drank in them, and were hauled out of them by the constable to appear in the police courts. https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/booze-brawls-and-bawds-a-social-history-of-weymouth-inns-by-mick-davis24 Oct 2025 08:37 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3whv7odjc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3m3whemznok2fWe have been quiet the last few months, but we have actually been very busy publishing some lovely new books, including this by @lrylandepton.bsky.social https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/langley-burrell-and-kellaways-a-history-by-louise-ryland-epton24 Oct 2025 08:28 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3whemznok2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3ltm4eicjp22oSpot the AI generated poltergeist quote: "Something he thought, stopt both his breath and held down his eye lids" "All the pewter was found in a heap in the yard, tho’ no thief could have passed the door" "There was such stamping over the roof of the house, as if 1000 horse had been there trotting"10 Jul 2025 10:23 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltm4eicjp22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3lsqiaqillc2iUPDATE! For anyone interested in more Hobnob Press news & exclusive excerpts from our newest release 'The Rise of the English Poltergeist', please note that we have just started a Substack account! Available via the link below. thehobnobpress.substack.com?r=5xmhbn&utm... https://thehobnobpress.substack.com/?r=5xmhbn&utm_campaign=pub-share-checklist29 Jun 2025 10:41 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsqiaqillc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3lsnxxkxxzk2g“I know what I heard and saw…” It's 1650. Stones fly through the ceiling. Doors slam in the night. And a great black dog walks upright. This isn't folklore. These are real accounts by respectable people. Pre-order 'The Rise of the English Poltergeist' now! https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/the-rise-of-the-english-poltergeist-by-andrew-pickering28 Jun 2025 10:44 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsnxxkxxzk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3lpjfznbs422uWe could not be prouder to publish this fantastic book on behalf of our friends at Hampshire VCH! A huge congratulations to them for this great piece of local history. #VCHPartnershipPublications @vchlondon.bsky.social https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/basingstoke-reinvented-18001925-from-agricultural-town-to-manufacturing-centre-edited-by-jean-morrin19 May 2025 10:57 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpjfznbs422uhttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3lpjfgwxqbk2xIt is #LocalHistoryMonth & Local History is what we do. So, here is another one of our fabulous titles.😊Chris is a great advocate for Chippenham and a fantastic local historian. https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/chippenham-on-this-day?rq=chippenham19 May 2025 10:46 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpjfgwxqbk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3lp2ftua5h225It is #LocalHistoryMonth & Local History is what we do. So here is one of our fabulous titles (we love the contents, but are also very proud of this cover).😊The mysterious Wansdyke is one of the great linear, bank-and-ditch earthworks of England. Recommended! https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/the-quest-for-wansdyke-by-alan-soldat13 May 2025 11:44 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp2ftua5h225https://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3loy6nayp7c2yWe are delighted to publish👇The Costs of Pleasure explores the dual meaning of 'costs' through the lens of Jacob and Priscilla Franks' visits to Bath 1777-1808, examining both their expenses for leisure activities & the colonial exploitation that funded it. https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/the-costs-of-pleasure-visiting-georgian-bath-and-other-spas-the-family-excursions-of-jacob-priscilla-franks-by-colin-fisher12 May 2025 14:29 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3loy6nayp7c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3loy5w3vv6k2yIt is #LocalHistoryMonth & we thought we should promote some of our newest titles. This is a fabulous book on #Swindon. It focuses not on trains 🚆but rather at the people who made them 😲 https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/made-in-swindon-a-social-history-1840s-1950s-edited-by-philip-garrahan12 May 2025 14:16 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3loy5w3vv6k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3lmreir6lsk2tWe are thrilled to publish this! The first biography of the naturalist John Leonard Knapp (1767-1845) and the previously unpublished 5th edition of his nature journal. Knapp may not be well known now but his journal was a bestseller when it was first published. https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/gilbert-whites-disciple-a-biography-of-john-leonard-knapp-1767-1845-together-with-his-the-journal-of-a-naturalist-5th-edition-previously-unpublished-by-george-sj-white-bt14 Apr 2025 10:35 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmreir6lsk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3lmrcn6x7dk2hWe have been swamped at Hobnob Press working on new books but consequently have some amazing titles coming out including this fabulous history of #Swindon which focuses not on the #trains but on to the people who made them. https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/made-in-swindon-a-social-history-1840s-1950s-edited-by-philip-garrahan14 Apr 2025 10:02 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmrcn6x7dk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3lmejeb7ugs2dInterested in Jane Austen? Check out the exhibition at Seacity Museum, Southampton. It ties perfectly with our new release on Austen's Southampton Circle by Cheryl Butler. Available from the museum soon or from our website! https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/first-impressions-jane-austens-southampton-circle-17801820-by-cheryl-butler https://seacitymuseum.co.uk/whats-on/jane-austen-exhibition/09 Apr 2025 07:58 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmejeb7ugs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3llpbkfumw22wDiscover 17th century travel through the eyes of John Walker in our new release. Edited by Anthea Jones. https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/john-walkers-commonplace-book-a-traveller-in-the-1670s-edited-by-anthea-jones31 Mar 2025 21:12 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3llpbkfumw22whttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3lkaw4mphv22wWe are thrilled to have just published this fabulous book on #JaneAusten & her Southampton connections. https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/first-impressions-jane-austens-southampton-circle-17801820-by-cheryl-butler13 Mar 2025 10:45 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkaw4mphv22whttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3ljy6s6oltk2wWe were deeply sad about the passing of our friend Ken Rogers but are very happy to publish this book he completed in collaboration with his son shortly before his death. A companion to Wiltshire & Somerset Woollen Mills, it focuses on the lives of weavers. https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/wiltshire-and-somerset-woollen-weavers-by-kh-and-ej-rogers [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Mar 2025 23:26 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljy6s6oltk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3lfkcrgmsyc2gJust out we have a biography of John Billingsley. Best known for the General View of Agriculture in Somerset, he was also a key member of the early Bath and West Society and an authority on enclosure, and was active in wool, turnpikes, canals, & much more. https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/john-billingsley-1747-1811-entrepreneur-turned-agriculturalist-by-lin-thorley12 Jan 2025 13:19 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfkcrgmsyc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3lfkchjyte22gWhat is going on at your favourite small publishers? Here is all our news! www.hobnobpress.co.uk/news12 Jan 2025 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfkchjyte22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/hobnobpress.bsky.social/post/3lbcpopfznk2qWe are new to Bluesky, but excited to be here, and for the publication of this new title featured on BBC Radio Wiltshire this afternoon! https://www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/avebury-without-the-stones-a-social-history-c1550-1800-by-stuart-a-raymond19 Nov 2024 15:08 +0000at://did:plc:54533gncbtawa262lfmnxml6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbcpopfznk2q