Bloody British History Suffolk

Author : Robert Leader
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075096278X
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Suffolk written by Robert Leader and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, Danes and disaster in Dark Age Ipswich! The castles are burning! Attacks, rebellions, battles and wars in ancient Suffolk! Queen of Blood and Fire! The dark days of Bloody Mary revealed! Sea of blood! Smugglers, sea battles, U-Boats and invasions along the Suffolk coast! The Zeppelins are coming! Bombs and bodies in the First World War!Suffolk has one of the most amazing histories of any British county. Betrayals, conspiracies and invasions have left their mark on this eastern frontier. Discover how vicious power struggles between the Danes and the Vikings shaped the history of not just the county, but the United Kingdom as a whole. Read of the troublesome Bigod dynasty, the Suffolk city under the sea and the strange story of the thousands of burnt corpses that washed up on the county’s beaches during the Second World War. Discover the dark truth inside!

Author : Douglas Wynn
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752481894
Total Pages : 166 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 166 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 : 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 : David Barrowclough
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750963271
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Cambridge written by David Barrowclough and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death to students: The weird origin of the University! A plague on both your parishes: Black Death in Cambridge's streets! Off with his head: The bizarre true story of Oliver Cromwell's travelling skull! Gas! Gas! The secret research team behind WWI's deadliest weapon! The fifth man: The truth about the Cambridge Five, the Soviet spies who studied! Cambridge has some of the most violent history ever recorded. From invading hordes of Vikings, Saxons and Normans to the secret Allied plans of the Second World War, it will thrill, disgust and delight in equal measure!

Author : Richard Smyth
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752492284
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Leeds written by Richard Smyth and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Laura Quigley
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752481916
Total Pages : 154 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 154 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 : 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 : 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 : Christina Surdhar
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750951591
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: York written by Christina Surdhar and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the history of York as you have never encountered it before! Travel back to a time when Erik Bloodaxe was resident monarch, or when William the Conqueror was in the middle of his relentless 'harrying of the north'. There are no tea rooms or hanging baskets in this York, but the severed heads on the walls have a certain decorative effect and there are plenty of places to stay if you don't mind risking cholera, plague and typhus! York has been the backdrop to some of the most significant and bloody events in British history. Read on if you dare!

Author : Valerie Pitt
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750960183
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Bristol written by Valerie Pitt and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corpses in the street! The Black Death decimates Bristol. A stomach full of arsenic! Poisoned puddings and merry murderers. Take that you brute! Suffragettes attack Winston Churchill. Bombs drop on Bristol! Blackouts and the blitz. Bristol has one of the bloodiest histories on record. One of Britain's key ports, it suffered devastating attacks from every possible invader, from Saxon fleets all the way through to the Nazi bombers of the Second World War. Meanwhile, adventurers, smugglers and pirates sailed from its docks, and more than half a million souls sailed in chains, victims of Bristol's vile slave trade ended only by the Herculean efforts of the abolitionists – Bristol folk amongst them. Containing hundreds of years of history and amazing true stories of eccentric residents such as con-woman 'Princess Caraboo', who ended her days as a Bristol leech-seller, no Bristol bookshelf is complete without this book.