Bloody British History Winchester

Author : Clare Dixon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752497537
Total Pages : 171 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 171 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 : 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 : Anne-Louise Barton
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445671867
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Winchester written by Anne-Louise Barton and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the secret history of Winchester through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.

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 : Penny Legg
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752481932
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Southampton written by Penny Legg and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people of Southampton have had a lot to put up with over the centuries. If the Danes of French weren't attacking it, pirates from further along were. Treasonous plots were hatched behind its ancient walls and mutiny hit its shipping. This book looks at such bloody events as the Black Death in the city, what happens when you cross a king, the ill-fated Titanic and the Blitz. Yes, the best bits of Southampton's history are surely the bloodiest!

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 : 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 : 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 : David Boyne
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075095177X
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Brighton written by David Boyne and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burned in a barrel of tar! Brighton’s Historical Horrors Revealed! Brighton scandals including rioting rockers, military misdemeanours and three terrible trunk murders! Strike! Barbarity at the Battle of Lewes Road. Baptised then beheaded: Stories of Saxon savagery! Strafed by Nazi machine-gunners: The terrible true tale of the Brighton blitz! Containing more than 60 illustrations and 2,000 years of history, here is the dark and dreadful saga of Brighton. With bombs and battles, riots and rebellions, tidal waves, terrors, and some terrible true crimes, it is no wonder that the city was once dubbed ‘The Queen of Slaughtering Places’!

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!