Death In St Jamess Park

Author : Susanna Gregory
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 0748121064
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in St James's Park written by Susanna Gregory and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years after Charles II's triumphant return to London there is growing mistrust of his extravagant court and of corruption among his officials - and when a cart laden with gunpowder explodes outside the General Letter Office, it is immediately clear that such an act is more than an expression of outrage at the inefficiency of the postal service. As intelligencer to the Lord Chamberlain, Thomas Chaloner cannot understand why a man of known incompetence is put in charge of investigating the attack while he is diverted to make enquiries about the poisoning of birds in the King's aviary in St James's Park. Then human rather than avian victims are poisoned, and Chaloner knows he has to ignore his master's instructions and use his own considerable wits to defeat an enemy whose deadly tentacles reach into the very heart of the government: an enemy who has the power and expertise to destroy anyone who stands in the way ...

Author : John Heneage Jesse
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book HISTORICAL AND LITERARY MEMORIALS OF THE CITY OF LONDON written by John Heneage Jesse and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historical and Literary Memorials of the City of London" is a work by John Heneage Jesse. Published in the 19th century, this book is a collection of historical and literary accounts focused on the city of London. John Heneage Jesse was an English historian and writer known for his works on historical topics. In this particular volume, Jesse likely delves into various aspects of London's history, including notable events, landmarks, literary connections, and perhaps the social and cultural development of the city. For readers interested in the history of London, especially during the 19th century, "Historical and Literary Memorials of the City of London" by John Heneage Jesse could provide valuable insights and a glimpse into the city's rich past.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palmer's Index to "The Times" Newspaper written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Ripley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New American Cyclopaedia written by George Ripley and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernard Burke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The St. James's Magazine written by Bernard Burke and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Craig Spence
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783271353
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accidents and Violent Death in Early Modern London, 1650-1750 written by Craig Spence and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries more than 15,000 Londoners suffered sudden violent deaths. While this figure includes around 3,000 who were murdered or committed suicide, the vast majority of fatalities resulted from accidents. In the early modern period, accidental and 'disorderly' deaths - from drowning, falls, stabbing, shooting, fires, explosions, suffocation, animals and vehicles, among other causes - were a regular feature of urban life and left a significant mark in the archival records of the period. This book provides the first substantive critical study of the early modern accident, revealing and chronicling the lives - and deaths - of hundreds of otherwise unknown Londoners. Drawing on the weekly London Bills of Mortality, parish burial registers, newspapers and other related documents, it examines accidents and other forms of violent death in the city with a view to understanding who among its residents encountered such events, how the bureaucracy recorded and elaborated their circumstances and why they did so, and what practical responses might follow. Through a systematic review of the character of accidents, medical and social interventions, and changing attitudes toward the regulation of hazards across the metropolis, it establishes the historical significance of the accident and shows how, as the eighteenth century progressed, providential explanations gave way to a more rational viewpoint that saw certain accident events as threats to be managed rather than misfortunes to be explained. Additionally, the book explores how knowledge of such incidents was transformed to become a recurring cultural trope in oral, textual and visual narratives of metropolitan life, thereby opening a window to the way in which sudden death and violent injury was understood by early modern mentalities. CRAIG SPENCE is Senior Lecturer in History at Bishop Grosseteste University.

Author : Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London, Past and Present written by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon the Handbook of London, by the late Peter Cunningham.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alastair James Bellany
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300214960
Total Pages : 659 pages
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Download or read book The Murder of King James I written by Alastair James Bellany and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king. It was an allegation that would haunt English politics for nearly forty years. In this exhaustively researched new book, two leading scholars of the era, Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell, uncover the untold story of how a secret history of courtly poisoning shaped and reflected the political conflicts that would eventually plunge the British Isles into civil war and revolution. Illuminating many hitherto obscure aspects of early modern political culture, this eagerly anticipated work is both a fascinating story of political intrigue and a major exploration of the forces that destroyed the Stuart monarchy.

Author : Registrar-general
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weekly return of births and deaths (infectious diseases, weather) in London (and other great towns). written by Registrar-general and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: