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by Andy K. Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
A must-have guide to the scandalous behavior of politicians around the world.
Andy Hughes’s fascinating book guides us through centuries of political abuse—and just plain stupidity. This pocket guide exposes the secret side of politics, including politicians who risked or ruined their own careers...
The Yorkshire Witch
The Life & Trial of Mary Bateman
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
“A fascinating tale of witchcraft and skulduggery in darkest Yorkshire in the early 19th century. . . . An extraordinary story, brilliantly told.” —Books Monthly
On the morning of March 20, 1809, the woman who had earned herself the title of “The Yorkshire Witch” was hanged at York’s...
London's Airports
Useful Information on Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton, Stansted and City
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
This book is for the passengers and aviation buffs who use London’s main airports. It includes a brief history, plans and photographs for each of the five airports, together with directions and information about gates, security, passport control, shopping, restaurants, car parks and other transport...
Tracing Your Rural Ancestors
A Guide For Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Many family historians will come across direct links to ancestors who lived and worked in the countryside as farmers, laborers, landowners, village tradesmen and professionals – for most of us have rural ancestors. Yet despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy, these people have rarely been written...
Tracing Your Yorkshire Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
This fully revised second edition of Rachel Bellerby’s best-selling guide is essential reading if you want to find out about your Yorkshire ancestors. As well as tracing when your ancestors were born, married and died, she shows you how can explore how they lived, worked and spent their leisure...
by Simon Wills
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
What was a merchant seaman’s life like in the past, what experiences would he have had, what were the ships like that he sailed in, and what risks did he run? Was he shipwrecked, rewarded for bravery, or punished? And how can you find out about an ancestor who was a member of the long British maritime...
by Vivien Teasdale
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Vivien Teasdale's concise and informative guide to the textile industry will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about its history or to research the career of an ancestor who was a textile worker.
In a clear and accessible way she takes readers through the technical, economic...
Tracing Your East Anglian Ancestors
A Guide For Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
Gill Blanchard’s practical and informative handbook will help you to trace your ancestors in the traditional counties of East Anglia - Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex – and it will give you a fascinating insight into their lives.
As well as guiding the researcher to historical...
Tracing Your Shipbuilding Ancestors
A Guide For Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Anthony Burton's concise and informative guide to British shipbuilding will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about its history or find out about the life of a shipbuilder and his family. In a clear and accessible way he traces its development from the medieval period to its peak...
Broadmoor Revealed
Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A fascinating introduction to the history of Broadmoor: Kate Summerscale, author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. On 27 May 1863, three coaches pulled up at the gates of a new asylum, built amongst the tall, dense pines of Windsor Forest. Broadmoors first patients had arrived. In Broadmoor Revealed,...
Bodysnatchers
Digging Up the Untold Stories of Britain's Resurrection Men
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The grim history of England’s bodysnatching trade: “Lennox’s thorough exploration is riveting” (Naomi Clifford, author of The Disappearance of Maria Glenn).
From the string of murders committed by Burke and Hare, a pair of ghouls who are still the stuff of pop culture legend, to the lesser-known...
by Sarah Seaton
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
A vivid and graphic survey of the casualties of childhood during the Victorian Era through detailed and never-before-seen firsthand accounts.
Take a fascinating journey into the real lives of Victorian children—how they lived, worked, played, and far too often, died before reaching adulthood....
by Burton, Pierre
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
On Easter Monday 1917 with a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France seized and held the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front - the muddy scarp of Vimy Ridge. The British had failed to take the Ridge, and so had the French who had lost 150,000...
by David Heathcoat-Amory
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Few are better placed to write on the United Kingdom’s relations with the European Union than David Heathcoat-Amory. As a Member of Parliament, Minister of State and Privy Counselor, he witnessed two Prime Ministers wrestling with the ‘elephant in the room’.
He describes Margaret Thatcher's...