Bloody British History Leeds

Author : Richard Smyth
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,5 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.

Author : Mark Leslie
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781459728622

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Tomes of Terror by Mark Leslie Pdf

A supernatural tour of bookstores and libraries around the world, focusing on the ghost stories from haunted locations. Throughout history, books have inspired, informed, entertained, and enriched us. They have also kept us up through the night, thrilled us, and lured into their endless depths. Tomes of Terror is a celebration and an eerie look at the siren call of literature and the unexplained and fascinating stories associated with bookish locations around the world. Mark Leslie’s latest paranormal page-turner is a compendium of true stories of the supernatural in literary locales, complete with hair-raising first-person accounts. You may even recognize a spectre of your local library lurking in these true stories and photographs. If you have ever felt an indescribable presence hanging about a quiet bookshop, then you’ll enjoy these fascinating and haunting tales.

Author : Mark Leslie,Jenny Jelen
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-28
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781459736610

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Real Hauntings 4-Book Bundle by Mark Leslie,Jenny Jelen Pdf

Experience a ghostly thrill with Mark Leslie’s four books on strange supernatural happenings. Creepy Capital True stories of ghostly encounters and creepy locales lurk throughout the Ottawa region. Come along with Canada’s paranormal raconteur extraordinaire, Mark Leslie, and discover the first-person accounts of ghostly happenings at landmarks throughout the historic city and surrounding towns. Haunted Hamilton From the Hermitage ruins to Dundurn Castle, from the Customs House to Stoney Creek Battlefield Park, the city of Hamilton, Ontario, is steeped in a rich history and culture. But beneath the surface of the Steel City there dwells a darker heart — from the shadows of yesteryear arise the unexplained, the bizarre, and the chilling. Spooky Sudbury From haunted mine shafts to inexplicable lights in the northern sky, there are strange things afoot in the peaceful northern municipality of Sudbury; eerie phenomenon that will amaze, give you pause, make you wonder, and have you looking twice at what might first appear to be innocent shadows. Tomes of Terror It’s been said that books have a life of their own, but there’s more than literature lurking in the cobwebbed recesses of dusty bookstores and libraries across Canada. Read about some of the most celebrated and eerie bookish haunts, and try to brush off that feeling of someone watching from just over your shoulder...

Author : Mark Leslie,Jenny Jelen,Shayna Krishnasamy
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-13
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781459744585

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Real Hauntings 5-Book Bundle by Mark Leslie,Jenny Jelen,Shayna Krishnasamy Pdf

Experience a ghostly thrill with Mark Leslie’s five books on strange supernatural happenings. Macabre Montreal Montreal is steeped in history and culture. But there are dark tales, eerie stories, and ghostly spectres that come alive once the sun goes down. Creepy Capital True stories of ghostly encounters and creepy locales lurk throughout the Ottawa region. Come along with Canada’s paranormal raconteur extraordinaire, Mark Leslie, and discover the first-person accounts of ghostly happenings at landmarks throughout the historic city and surrounding towns. Haunted Hamilton From the Hermitage ruins to Dundurn Castle, from the Customs House to Stoney Creek Battlefield Park, the city of Hamilton, Ontario, is steeped in a rich history and culture. But beneath the surface of the Steel City there dwells a darker heart — from the shadows of yesteryear arise the unexplained, the bizarre, and the chilling. Spooky Sudbury From haunted mine shafts to inexplicable lights in the northern sky, there are strange things afoot in the peaceful northern municipality of Sudbury; eerie phenomenon that will amaze, give you pause, make you wonder, and have you looking twice at what might first appear to be innocent shadows. Tomes of Terror It’s been said that books have a life of their own, but there’s more than literature lurking in the cobwebbed recesses of dusty bookstores and libraries across Canada. Read about some of the most celebrated and eerie bookish haunts, and try to brush off that feeling of someone watching from just over your shoulder...

Author : Richard Smyth
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750954976

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English History: Strange but True by Richard Smyth Pdf

This book is a treasure trove of English oddities, crammed with the most curious stories, remarkable facts and unexpected goings-on from the country's long and convoluted history. From frogs' legs at Stonehenge to knicker elastic in the Blitz, this is England – the unauthorised biography.

Author : Summer Strevens
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780752494364

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Murder and Crime York by Summer Strevens Pdf

Discover the shadier side of York's history with this remarkable collection of true-life crimes from across the city. Featuring all factions of the criminal underworld, this macabre selection of tales includes murders, poisonings, poaching, theft and highway robbery and also details the gruesome punishments that awaiting the perpetrators of such crimes. Drawing on a wide variety of historical sources and containing many cases which have never before been published, York Murders will fascinate everyone interested in true crime and the history of the city.

Author : Geoff Holder
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750958110

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Bloody British History: Britain by Geoff Holder Pdf

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 . . .

Author : David McGrory
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752494333

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Bloody British History: Coventry by David McGrory Pdf

The decapitated Lord: Medieval slaughter at the castle! Yellows vs Blues: Coventry's most violent elections revealed! Kings, rebellions and rioters! Civil war comes to the city! Boiled in beer! Baked in his oven! The most dreadful Christmas calamities in Coventry's history are inside! Coventry has one of the darkest histories on record. With sieges, battles, crimes, riots, disasters, all-out attempts at demolition and some truly dreadful punishments to boot, you'll never see the city in the same way again.

Author : Mark Leslie,Jenny Jelen
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781459730069

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Real Hauntings — 3-Book Bundle by Mark Leslie,Jenny Jelen Pdf

This special three-book bundle collects three haunting books on the supernatural by Mark Leslie. In Spooky Sudbury and Haunted Hamilton he relays creepy tales from two of Canada’s cities. Lock the doors and turn on all the lights before you settle down with these stories, because once you begin to read about the supernatural elements that lurk within these seemingly normal towns in Southern Ontario, strange bumps in the night will take on new, more sinister meanings. In Tomes of Terror Leslie has compiled true stories of the supernatural in literary locales, complete with hair-raising first-person accounts. You may even recognize a spectre of your local library lurking in these true stories and photographs. If you have ever felt an indescribable presence hanging about a quiet bookshop, then you’ll enjoy these fascinating and haunting tales. Haunted Hamilton Spooky Sudbury Tomes of Terror

Author : Geoff Holder
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750958110

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Bloody British History: Britain by Geoff Holder Pdf

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 ...

Author : David J. Boyne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Brighton (England)
ISBN : OCLC:1162101988

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Bloody British History by David J. Boyne Pdf

Containing more than 60 illustrations and two thousand years of history, here is the terrible true story of Brighton, once dubbed 'The Queen of Slaughtering Places'.

Author : Michala Hulme
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750978972

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Bloody British History: Manchester by Michala Hulme Pdf

Manchester has one of the darkest histories in Britain. From the Screaming Skull of Wardley Hall to an epidemic of deadly factory fires in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, you will find all manner of horrible events inside this book. With coffins washed from their graves and swept away into the city after the River Medlock burst its banks, and the streets of Salford, Gorton and Openshaw overrun by gangs in the latter quarter of the nineteenth century, as well as murders, riots, battles and plagues, the grimmest events in Manchester's history are all here for you to explore. Read this gory and glorious book ... if you dare!

Author : Leigh Waite
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0752487418

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Bloody British History by Leigh Waite Pdf

Bloody British History

Author : W. Edmundson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230101210

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A History of the British Presence in Chile by W. Edmundson Pdf

This book sets out to narrate the contributions to and influence on the history of Chile that British visitors and immigrants have had, not as bystanders but as key players, starting in 1554 with the English Queen 'Bloody Mary' becoming Queen of Chile, and ending with the decline of British influence following the Second World War.

Author : John Wade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10282203

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British history, chronologically arranged by John Wade Pdf