Bloody British History Stafford

Author : Anthony Poulton-Smith
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752494155
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Stafford written by Anthony Poulton-Smith and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its earliest beginnings through to the last days of the Second World War, Staffordshire's county town has seen more than its fair share of gore. Its history is filled with blood, disease, pestilence, poison, dismemberment, decapitation, suicides and hauntings. Featuring life – and death – at Stafford Gaol, the sanguineous siege of the castle and many other tragic true tales from history, you'll never see it in the same way again!

Author : Andrew May
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075248754X
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Somerset written by Andrew May and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!

Author : David Vaughan
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075095891X
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Salisbury written by David Vaughan and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!

Author : Eddie Brazil
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750960353
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Buckinghamshire written by Eddie Brazil and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black death at Bletchley! Pustules and pest houses. Burnt at the stake! Lollards tortured and hanged. French kings and guillotines! Exiled King Louis XVIII at Hartwell House. Farmhouse of thieves! The amazing true story of the Great Train Robbery. Buckinghamshire has one of the darkest histories on record. Its residents included the Dinton Hermit – better known as Charles I's executioner – and Sir Everard Digby, the Gayhurst nobleman who tried to blow up James I, as well as a truly apocalyptic priest at Water Stratford. With Romans running amok in the Chilterns and the Anglo-Saxons terrorising Aylesbury, this chilling catalogue of battles, deaths, diseases and disasters will make you see the county in a whole new light.

Author : Dorothy Nicolle
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752483250
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Shrewsbury written by Dorothy Nicolle and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!

Author : John Herson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 0719098327
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divergent paths written by John Herson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is unique in adopting a family history approach to Irish immigrants in nineteenth century Britain. It shows that the family was central to the migrants’ lives and identities. The techniques of family and digital history are used for the first time to reveal the paths followed by a representative body of Irish immigrant families, using the town of Stafford in the West Midlands as a case study. The book contains vital evidence about the lives of ordinary families. In the long term many intermarried with the local population, but others moved away and some simply died out. The book investigates what forces determined the paths they followed and why their ultimate fates were so varied. A fascinating picture is revealed of family life and gender relations in nineteenth-century England which will appeal to scholars of Irish history, social history, genealogy and the history of the family.

Author : David McGrory
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752494333
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Coventry written by David McGrory and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Douglas Wynn
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752481894
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Lincoln written by Douglas Wynn and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Paul Sullivan
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752481975
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Oxford written by Paul Sullivan and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the history of Oxford as you have never encountered it before.The first historical record of Oxford laments that the city has been burnt to the ground by Vikings. Its religious houses were founded by a woman who blinded her would-be attacker. Its students were poverty-stricken desperados in perpetual armed conflict with the townsmen. One of its principal colleges, meanwhile, doubled as a slaughterhouse — and its richest streets and university edifices backed on to some of the most pestilential slums in England.With a mangled skeleton in every cupboard, this is the real story of the Oxford. Read it 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 ...