Bloody British History Manchester

Author : Michala Hulme
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075097897X
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Manchester written by Michala Hulme and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Geoff Holder
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750958111
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Britain written by Geoff Holder and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Laura Quigley
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752481916
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Plymouth written by Laura Quigley and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!

Author : Michala Hulme
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750964448
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grim Almanac of Manchester written by Michala Hulme and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Grim Almanac of Manchester collects together 365 of the darkest tales from Manchester's history – terrifying true tales of riot, assault, murder and crime, of slums, disease, death and disaster. Compiled by Manchester historian and genealogist Michala Hume, this book is filled with amazing historical horrors ranging from the bizarre – such as the night a poisoned cake caused a sickness to sweep through Ancoats – to the horrific, like the tragic time twenty-three people were crushed to death attempting to escape a fire in the overcrowded Victoria Music Hall. Some of these incidents were resolved, but many remain mysteries to this day. Generously illustrated, this chronicle is an entertaining and absorbing record of Manchester's grim past. Read on ... if you dare!

Author : Marianne Colloms
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752492950
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Camden written by Marianne Colloms and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!

Author : Mark Mower
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750952024
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Norwich written by Mark Mower and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danish death! Vikings sack and burn the city! Medieval murder mysteries! The dead body of a young boy was found on a heath—but was it a case of ritual child murder? Dreadful diseases! Revealing the terrible time when one third of Norwich's residents caught the Black Death! Victorian horrors! 1851: body parts began to appear across the city—but who had left them, and why? This book contains the amazing and dramatic history of Norwich. Beginning with the all-out Viking assault on the city and roaring through to the falling bombs of the Blitz, hundreds of years of incredible history are crammed into this volume. You'll never look at the city in the same way again!

Author : Paul Dobraszczyk
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526144158
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manchester written by Paul Dobraszczyk and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Manchester? Moving far from the glitzy shopping districts and architectural showpieces, away from cool city-centre living and modish cultural centres, this book shows us the unheralded, under-appreciated and overlooked parts of Greater Manchester in which the majority of Mancunians live, work and play. It tells the story of the city thematically, using concepts such a ‘material’, ‘atmosphere’, ‘waste’, ‘movement’ and ‘underworld’ to challenge our understanding of the quintessential post-industrial metropolis. Bringing together contributions from twenty-five poets, academics, writers, novelists, historians, architects and artists from across the region alongside a range of captivating photographs, this book explores the history of Manchester through its chimneys, cobblestones, ginnels and graves. This wide-ranging and inclusive approach reveals a host of idiosyncrasies, hidden spaces and stories that have until now been neglected.

Author : Laura Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192638793
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Histories of Everyday Life written by Laura Carter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Histories of Everyday Life is a study of the production and consumption of popular social history in mid-twentieth century Britain. It explores how non-academic historians, many of them women, developed a new breed of social history after the First World War, identified as the 'history of everyday life'. The 'history of everyday life' was a pedagogical construct based on the perceived educational needs of the new, mass democracy that emerged after 1918. It was popularized to ordinary people in educational settings, through books, in classrooms and museums, and on BBC radio. After tracing its development and dissemination between the 1920s and the 1960s, this book argues that 'history of everyday life' declined in the 1970s not because academics invented an alternative 'new' social history, but because bottom-up social change rendered this form of popular social history untenable in the changing context of mass education. Histories of Everyday Life ultimately uses the subject of history to demonstrate how profoundly the advent of mass education shaped popular culture in Britain after 1918, arguing that we should see the twentieth century as Britain's educational century.

Author : Clare Dixon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752497537
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Winchester written by Clare Dixon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Dr Samantha Bird
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750965606
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: East End written by Dr Samantha Bird and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.