Shooting Victoria

Author : Paul Thomas Murphy
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781453249376

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Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy Pdf

“A fresh, lively ” perspective on Victorian England, as seen through the eight assassination attempts on Queen Victoria (Publishers Weekly, starred review). During Queen Victoria’s sixty-four years on the British throne, no fewer than eight attempts were made on her life. Seven teenage boys and one man attempted to kill her. Far from letting it inhibit her reign over the empire, Victoria used the notoriety of the attacks to her advantage. Regardless of the traitorous motives—delusions of grandeur, revenge, paranoia, petty grievances, or a preference of prison to the streets—they were a golden opportunity for the queen to revitalize the British crown, strengthen the monarchy, push through favored acts of legislation, and prove her pluck in the face of newfound public support. “It is worth being shot at,” she said, “to see how much one is loved.” Recounting what Elizabeth Barrett marveled at as “this strange mania of queen-shooting,” and the punishments, unprecedented trials, and fate of these malcontents who were more pitiable than dangerous, Paul Thomas Murphy explores the realities of life in nineteenth-century England—for both the privileged and the impoverished. From these cloak-and-dagger plots of “regicide” to Victoria’s steadfast courage, Shooting Victoria is thrilling, insightful, and, at times, completely mad historical narrative. Whether through film (Jean-Marc Vallée’s The Young Victoria), biography (Julia Baird’s Victoria: The Queen), television (Daisy Goodwin’s Victoria), or revisionist fantasy (Paul Di Filippo’s The Steampunk Trilogy) there is a strong interest in Victorian England. Now Paul Thomas Murphy approaches this period from an eccentric, entirely new, and unexplored angle, combining legal, social, and political history into a book that is both “enlightening [and] great fun” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MSU:31293010949968

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The Country Gentlemen's Catalogue of Requisites for the House, Field, Farm, Garden, Stable, Kennel, &c., to which is Added a Note Book, Prize Record and Directory, Specially Compiled for the Use of Country Gentlemen by Anonim Pdf

Author : San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Municipal government
ISBN : UCAL:B4302340

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San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year ... by San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors Pdf

Author : Victoria Lee
Publisher : Dell
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593500521

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A Shot in the Dark by Victoria Lee Pdf

A passionate and powerful romance featuring a transgender man and an ex-Orthodox woman who find each other through their devotion to art, and fall in love despite all odds, from bestselling author Victoria Lee “A sensual love story about art and passion . . . emotional and heart-aching.”—Ashley Poston, New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics Elisheva Cohen has just returned to New York after almost a decade away. The wounds of her past haven’t fully healed, but four years of sobriety and a scholarship to study photography with art legend Wyatt Cole are signs of good things to come, right? They could be, as long as Ely resists self-sabotage. She’s lucky enough to hit it off with a handsome himbo her first night out in the city. But the morning after their mind-blowing hookup, reality comes knocking. When Wyatt Cole walks into the classroom, Ely realizes the man she just spent the night with, the man whose name she couldn’t hear over the loud club music, is her teacher. Everyone in the art world is obsessed with Wyatt Cole. He’s immensely talented and his notoriously reclusive personal life makes him even more compelling. But behind closed doors, Wyatt’s past is a painful memory. After coming out as transgender, Wyatt was dishonorably discharged from the military and disowned by his family. Since these traumatic experiences, Wyatt has worked hard for his sobriety and his flourishing art career. He can’t risk it all for Ely, no matter how attracted to her he is or how bad he feels about insisting she drop his class in exchange for a strictly professional mentorship. Wyatt can help with her capstone photography project, but he cannot, under any circumstances, fall in love with her in the process. Through the lens of her camera, Ely must confront the reason she left New York in the first place: the Orthodox community that raised her, then shunned her because of her substance abuse. Along the way, Wyatt’s walls begin to break down, and each artist fights for what’s right in front of them—a person who sees them for all that they are and a love that could mean more than they ever imagined possible.

Author : Paul Thomas Murphy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781681771205

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Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane by Paul Thomas Murphy Pdf

On April 26th, 1871, a police constable walking one of London’s remotest beats stumbled upon a brutalized young woman kneeling in the muddy road. She stretched out her hand to him, collapsed in the mud, muttered, “Let me die,” and slipped into a coma. Five days later, she died, her identity still unknown.Within hours of her discovery, scores of Metropolitan Police officers were involved in the investigation, while Scotland Yard sent one of its top detectives to lead it. On the day of her death, the police discovered the girl's identity: Jane Maria Clouson, a sixteen-year-old servant to the Pooks, a respectable Greenwich family. Hours later, they arrested her master's son, twenty-year-old Edmund, for her murder.An epic tale of law and disorder, Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane is the story of the majesty—and the travesty—of the nineteenth-century British legal system. Using an abundant collection of primary sources, Paul Thomas Murphy creates a gripping narrative of the police procedural and the ensuing legal drama, and, applying contemporary forensic methods to this Victorian cold case, reveals definitively the identity of Jane Clouson's murderer.

Author : San Francisco (Calif.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:LI1E29

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San Francisco Municipal Reports ... by San Francisco (Calif.) Pdf

Author : Victoria. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1286 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWBZC8

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Parliamentary Debates by Victoria. Parliament Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Victoria
ISBN : SRLF:A0002814622

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Victorian Year Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tony Coady
Publisher : Melbourne University Publish
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0522847889

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Violence and Police Culture by Tony Coady Pdf

Violence and policing are inevitably associated. Criminals use violence not only against innocent members of the public, but also against the police themselves. For our own protection and theirs, we have given police a licence to use force, sometimes with lethal consequences. But the exercise of this licence is fraught with risk to the community. The disturbing record of police shootings in Victoria, and irresponsible police violence elsewhere in recent years, vividly illustrate this risk. The public outcry against such events is understandable. To find a solution, we need to analyse the contexts and the cultural background of the use of police violence, and to think hard about its causes and proper limits. In Violence and Police Culture, eminent contributors offer valuable insights and experience to the growing debate. While Australian in origin and emphasis, the book addresses a public issue that resonates as far afield as London, New York, Tokyo and Belfast. Violence and Police Culture argues that there are features of police culture which foster abuse of the right to use violence. The book makes positive suggestions about institutional changes that might alleviate the problems bedevilling what the philosopher Thomas Hobbes called 'the right of the sword'.

Author : Linda Maxie
Publisher : Spoon Creek Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9798985923414

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Library Lin's Curated Collection of Superlative Nonfiction by Linda Maxie Pdf

Trust a librarian to help you find books you’ll want to read Library Lin’s Curated Collection of Superlative Nonfiction is a librarian’s A-list of nonfiction books organized by subject area—just like a library. Linda Maxie (Library Lin) combed through 65 best books lists going back a century. She reviewed tens of thousands of books, sorted them according to the Dewey Decimal Classification system, and selected an entire library’s worth for you to browse without leaving home. Here you’ll find • Summaries of outstanding titles in every subject • Suggestions for locating reading material specific to your needs and interests In this broad survey of all the nonfiction categories, you will find titles on everything from the A-bomb to Zen Buddhism. You might find yourself immersed in whole subject areas that you never thought you’d be interested in.

Author : Victoria
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Law
ISBN : MINN:31951D015568553

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The Victorian Statutes by Victoria Pdf

"This edition of the Statutes is intended to contain, with some slight exceptions, all the Acts in force in Victoria by whatever authority up to and inclusive of the Consolidating Acts 1890. It consists of seven volumes. In the first five appear the general public Statutes and the more permanent Rules and Regulations made under powers therein contained. A sixth volume includes all the private Acts and Acts of a local or personal nature. In the seventh and last volume will be found the Acts of the Federal Council of Australasia and a number of Imperial enactments that appear to be applicable, either by direct enactment or by implication, to Victoria."--Preface.

Author : Victoria. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062524231

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The Victorian Law Reports by Victoria. Supreme Court Pdf

Author : Victoria Houston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440531590

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Dead Hot Shot by Victoria Houston Pdf

Murder never takes a holiday...or so Loon Lake learns one wintry Thanksgiving Day. Chief of Police Lew Ferris, short-handed thanks to an AWOL coroner, never even gets the turkey stuffed before the bodies start to surface. By the end of the day, credit card theft and dysfunctional families have so muddied the waters that not even expert tracker and dedicated fishing guide Ray Pradt can hope to fish the final day of muskie season. And while retired dentist Doc Osborne had counted on sitting by the fire with Lew (out of uniform) and planning a fly-fishing trip to Wyoming, the unexpected arrival of Gina Palmer, former investigative reporter turned forensics database expert, ramps up the action with her pursuit of a Canadian link to the theft of merchandise from stores across the upper Midwest. Dead Hot Shot, ninth in the Loon Lake Mystery series, is a heady mix of murder, mayhem, and fishing in the northwoods of Wisconsin.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Natural history
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106244387

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The Victorian Naturalist by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Henry Giles Kingston
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465596840

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Our Sailors: Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign by William Henry Giles Kingston Pdf

ÒLet fall the topsails, hoist awayÑup anchor, round goes the capstanÑsheet homeÑhaul taut the braces! and away we glide, to prove to our countrymen that British sailors have not been sleeping on beds of roses for the last quarter of a century since her gracious Majesty Queen Victoria came to the throne.Ó So wrote our author some forty years ago. ÒUp anchor, full speed ahead,Ó is, we suppose, the modern equivalent for his nautical simile, and very prosaic and commonplace it sounds; but we shall find that the romance of the Navy did not go out with the last of the sailing frigates, and that the age of steam and electricity, of enormous ironclads and rapid cruisers, affords as great a scope for individual daring, resource, and heroism as the days of sailing frigates and boarding parties; and that though in recent years our sailors have not had many chances of using their weapons on the sea, the Naval Brigade has taken its part in many an expedition, on land, and on all occasions the British tar has proved himself a worthy successor to the heroes of Trafalgar and the Nile. During the earlier years of the Great QueenÕs reign her sailors had little to do in the fighting line, though on the West Coast of Africa the slave traffic gave occasion to many a lively skirmish, and on other seas various events from time to time afforded an opportunity for showing that their weapons were as effective as of old.