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Bloody British History: Bristol

Valerie Pitt
Bloody British History Bristol Book PDF

Author : Valerie Pitt
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750960182

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Bloody British History: Bristol by Valerie Pitt Pdf

Corpses in the street! The Black Death decimates Bristol. A stomach full of arsenic! Poisoned puddings and merry murderers. 'Take that you brute!’ Suffragettes attack Winston Churchill. Bombs drop on Bristol! Blackouts and the Blitz.Bristol has one of the bloodiest histories on record. One of Britain’s key ports, it suffered devastating attacks from every possible invader, from Saxon fleets all the way through to the Nazi bombers of the Second World War. Meanwhile, adventurers, smugglers and pirates sailed from its docks, and more than half a million souls sailed in chains, victims of Bristol’s vile slave trade ended only by the Herculean efforts of the abolitionists – Bristol folk amongst them.Containing hundreds of years of history and amazing true stories of eccentric residents such as con-woman ‘Princess Caraboo’, who ended her days as a Bristol leech-seller, no Bristol bookshelf is complete without this book.

Bloody British History: Bristol

Valerie Pitt
Bloody British History Bristol Book PDF

Author : Valerie Pitt
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750960182

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Bloody British History: Bristol by Valerie Pitt Pdf

Corpses in the street! The Black Death decimates Bristol. A stomach full of arsenic! Poisoned puddings and merry murderers. Take that you brute! Suffragettes attack Winston Churchill. Bombs drop on Bristol! Blackouts and the blitz. Bristol has one of the bloodiest histories on record. One of Britain's key ports, it suffered devastating attacks from every possible invader, from Saxon fleets all the way through to the Nazi bombers of the Second World War. Meanwhile, adventurers, smugglers and pirates sailed from its docks, and more than half a million souls sailed in chains, victims of Bristol's vile slave trade ended only by the Herculean efforts of the abolitionists – Bristol folk amongst them. Containing hundreds of years of history and amazing true stories of eccentric residents such as con-woman 'Princess Caraboo', who ended her days as a Bristol leech-seller, no Bristol bookshelf is complete without this book.

Bloody British History: Somerset

Andrew May
Bloody British History Somerset Book PDF

Author : Andrew May
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752487540

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Bloody British History: Somerset by Andrew May Pdf

Horrors of the caves! The ghastly true story of the Cheddar cannibals! Twilight of the Empire! Romans, Saxons and the legends of King Arthur! Swords against the Vikings! The Somerset heroes who defied the Norse hordes! Martyrs, murderers, pirates and mad scientists – Somerset’s strangest residents revealed! Death storm! The terrible toll of the Great Storm of 1703! Spies in Somerset! Containing more than two thousand years of Somerset history, thrill to stunning true stories of battles and bloodshed, executions and exorcisms, sinister Templars and Victorian sex cults! With more than 60 illustrations plus an eight-page colour section, you’ll never see the county in the same way again!

Bloody British History: Camden

Marianne Colloms,Dick Weindling
Bloody British History Camden Book PDF

Author : Marianne Colloms,Dick Weindling
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752492957

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Bloody British History: Camden by Marianne Colloms,Dick Weindling Pdf

Black Death! The horrors of the plague in Camden! My wife is under the floor! The true story of Camden murderer Doctor Crippen! The elephant stampede! Weird accidents and strange events galore! Camden has a dark side to rival that of any London borough. The haunt of highwaymen, its fields also witnessed numerous duels. Crime, poverty and depravity were rife in parts of Holborn until the late nineteenth century. The first murderer to be caught using the transatlantic cable lived in Camden, and the last woman to be hanged shot her lover outside a Hampstead pub. With grave-robbers and grisly graveyard exhumations, eccentric residents and rioting peasants, and featuring tons of weird true events, you’ll never see the borough in the same way again!

Bloody British History: Britain

Geoff Holder
Bloody British History Britain Book PDF

Author : Geoff Holder
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750958110

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Britain has an incredible history, steeped in all manner of blood, death, disease and horror. From cannibals to concentration camps, Geoff Holder covers events both great and gory from Britain’s terrible past, with kings, queens and pretenders to the throne; sea battles, massacres and attacks from the air. This collection explores it all, with hundreds of amazing true stories, including seven ill-judged attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria and the Gestapo’s secret plans to bring a conquered Britain to its knees. There will be blood . . .

Bloody British History: Winchester

Clare Dixon,Don Bryan,Geraldine Buchanan,James King
Bloody British History Winchester Book PDF

Author : Clare Dixon,Don Bryan,Geraldine Buchanan,James King
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752497532

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Bloody British History: Winchester by Clare Dixon,Don Bryan,Geraldine Buchanan,James King Pdf

The queen who walked on fire! Weird legends of St Swithin explored! The Vikings are coming! Death and destruction in ancient Winchester! Sufferings she could not describe': the amazing life and dolorous death of Miss Jane Austen! Fed to the dogs! Winchester's most gruesome executions! The secret histories of Winchester's most famous buildings revealed! Winchester has one of the darkest and most fascinating histories on record – more than 2,000 years of death, disease and destruction. With Georgian terrorists and legendary kings, trials, plagues and chilling true stories including the tale of William Walker, the diver who spent five years in pitch-black water under the cathedral, you'll never see the city in the same way again!

Bloody British History: Hereford

David Phelps
Bloody British History Hereford Book PDF

Author : David Phelps
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752482972

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Bloody British History: Hereford by David Phelps Pdf

Hereford has a darker side to its history, filled with strange – and sometimes unlikely – true tales. Was King Arthur a Hereford man? Why was its patron saint murdered by his would-be father-in-law? Why did another of its saints become the only saint to die excommunicated? Was a Bishop of Hereford involved in the murder of a king by the most frightful method imaginable? Did bones from the Cathedral graveyard really cure every disease known to man? Was a ghost really responsible for the destruction of the cathedral's west front? Was the Hay Poisoner really guilty? Was a Hereford clerk the rightful King of England? These, and many other strange stories, will be revealed in this book...

Bloody British History: Plymouth

Laura Quigley
Bloody British History Plymouth Book PDF

Author : Laura Quigley
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752481913

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Bloody British History: Plymouth by Laura Quigley Pdf

Bread riots and bodysnatchers! Pirates and privateers! Hell holes for Boney! The disgusting true story of Plymouth’s Napoleonic prison ships! ‘A very daughter of Hell!’ In 1675, a poisonous nursemaid was hanged on Prince Rock – but was she innocent of the crime? Find out inside! Death aboard the Titanic! Blitz, bombs and Plymouth men's battles on Omaha Beach!Plymouth has one of the darkest and most dreadful histories on record. Beginning with the discovery of the bones of cave men and rushing through French attacks, outbreaks of leprosy and the plague, Civil War sieges and deadly Spanish ships, disasters, demolitions and the enormous death tolls of the Plymouth Blitz, it will change the way you see the city forever!

Bloody British History: Somerset

Dr Andrew May
Bloody British History Somerset Book PDF

Author : Dr Andrew May
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752487540

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Bloody British History: Somerset by Dr Andrew May Pdf

Horrors of the caves! The ghastly true story of the Cheddar cannibals! Twilight of the Empire! Romans, Saxons and the legends of King Arthur! Swords against the Vikings! The Somerset heroes who defied the Norse hordes! Martyrs, murderers, pirates and mad scientists – Somerset's strangest residents revealed! Death storm! The terrible toll of the Great Storm of 1703! Spies in Somerset! Containing more than two thousand years of Somerset history, thrill to stunning true stories of battles and bloodshed, executions and exorcisms, sinister Templars and Victorian sex cults! With more than 60 illustrations plus an eight-page colour section, you'll never see the county in the same way again!

Bloody British History: Salisbury

David Vaughan
Bloody British History Salisbury Book PDF

Author : David Vaughan
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750958912

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Bloody British History: Salisbury by David Vaughan Pdf

Saxons of Old Sarum buried alive! The plague pits of Salisbury! Cathedral organist intent on murder! The book bound in human skin! Locked in a cage with criminal lunatics! A monocled killer!Salisbury has one of the most gruesome histories on record. Human remains filled its barrows, its nobles were tortured, its witches hanged and a deadly disease once lurked in its murky waters. There was no safety in its inns either, for one was plagued with suicides and another hid a severed hand. Even the introduction of the railways led to death and destruction. With more than sixty illustrations, hundreds of years of terrible true history are waiting for you inside this book!

Bloody British History: East End

Dr Samantha Bird
Bloody British History East End Book PDF

Author : Dr Samantha Bird
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750965606

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Bloody British History: East End by Dr Samantha Bird Pdf

Pustules and plague corpses in Smithfield. Women disguised in men's clothing. A shark in the Thames. London's East End has a history soaked in blood. The Great Plague of London can be traced to its streets; Jack the Ripper prowled here, as did the Ratcliffe Highway murderer and the gunmen of the famous Sidney Street siege. Communists, fascists, suffragettes and the Skeleton Army have all fought through the streets of the East End, before it weathered the worst that the Nazi bombers could throw at it during the dark days of the Blitz. Historically viewed as a 'den of iniquity', and once teeming with opium dens, bodysnatchers and paupers, this is a story of dreadful odds and of determination, filled with horror, grim British humour and hundreds of incredible years of history.

Bloody British History: Leeds

Richard Smyth
Bloody British History Leeds Book PDF

Author : Richard Smyth
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752492285

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Bloody British History: Leeds by Richard Smyth Pdf

Phantom in the library! The bizarre true story of a Victorian haunting revealed! King cholera! The day that death came to the Dock family! Exploding mummies! The weirdest events of the blitz examined! A Yorkshire tragedy: Fifteenth-century murder at Calverley Hall! Leeds has one of the darkest histories on record. From the fatal Dripping Riot of 1865, sparked by the theft of two pounds of congealed fat, to the violin-playing killer Charles Peace, said to still haunt the city’s prison cells, you will find all manner of horrible events inside this book. With plague and disease in the city slums, dreadful disasters in Roundhay Park, and riots in the city centre, this is the real story of Yorkshire’s first city.

Bloody British History: Lincoln

Douglas Wynn
Bloody British History Lincoln Book PDF

Author : Douglas Wynn
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752481890

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Bloody British History: Lincoln by Douglas Wynn Pdf

Built by the Romans, looted by the Danes and conquered by King William I (who devastated the town to build a castle and a cathedral), the city of Lincoln has had a long and most dreadful history. Containing medieval child murder, vile sieges of (and escapes from) the castle, the savage repression of the Lincolnshire rising by King Henry VIII (who had the ringleaders hanged, drawn and quartered) and plagues, lepers, prisons, riots, typhoid, tanks and terrible hangings by the ton, you'll never see the city in the same way again.

Bloody British History: Shrewsbury

Dorothy Nicolle
Bloody British History Shrewsbury Book PDF

Author : Dorothy Nicolle
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752483252

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Bloody British History: Shrewsbury by Dorothy Nicolle Pdf

Death to them all! The story of Shrewsbury Castle where an entire garrison was executed! The true story of the three-hour battle which left over 6,000 men dead or dying! The admiral who used his enemies' heads as evidence! The tightrope artiste who dived to his death! Just a few miles from the border with Wales, the town of Shrewsbury has an incredible history. It has been attacked by the English and by the Welsh; Welsh princes have died in its streets, whilst thousands of English soldiers perished just outside the town in one of the most brutal battles ever to take place on British soil. Containing some truly bizarre facts about Charles Darwin and the true story of a Victorian serial killer's visit to Shrewsbury, read it if you dare!

Bloody British History: Suffolk

Robert Leader
Bloody British History Suffolk Book PDF

Author : Robert Leader
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750962780

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Bloody British History: Suffolk by Robert Leader Pdf

Death, Danes and disaster in Dark Age Ipswich! The castles are burning! Attacks, rebellions, battles and wars in ancient Suffolk! Queen of Blood and Fire! The dark days of Bloody Mary revealed! Sea of blood! Smugglers, sea battles, U-Boats and invasions along the Suffolk coast! The Zeppelins are coming! Bombs and bodies in the First World War! Suffolk has one of the most amazing histories of any British county. Betrayals, conspiracies and invasions have left their mark on this eastern frontier. Discover how vicious power struggles between the Danes and the Vikings shaped the history of not just the county, but the United Kingdom as a whole. Read of the troublesome Bigod dynasty, the Suffolk city under the sea and the strange story of the thousands of burnt corpses that washed up on the county's beaches during the Second World War. Discover the dark truth inside!