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Children's Lives in the 1800s

by Matthew Strange ...

Series series Daily Life in America in the 1800s
For most of the 1800s, children were considered "small, unruly adults" who needed to be strictly disciplined and put to useful work as soon as they were able. The very concept of childhood itself, as a carefree, innocent time, is a result of increasing economic stability and changing family roles in the 1800s. Before child welfare laws were enacted and compulsory education enforced, children made ... Read more

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For most of the 1800s, children were considered "small, unruly adults" who needed to be strictly disciplined and put to useful work as soon as they were able. The very concept of childhood itself, as a carefree, innocent time, is a result of increasing economic stability and changing family roles in the 1800s. Before child welfare laws were enacted and compulsory education enforced, children made
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America at War

Military Conflicts, Home and Abroad, and Daily Life in the 1800

by Matthew Strange ...

Series series Daily Life in America in the 1800s
From an isolated and inward-looking new nation clinging to the East Coast, America in the 1800s grew in size, strength, and military might. From the War of 1812 to the century-long campaigns of conquest against Native American peoples, territorial expansion through war with Mexico to the great national tragedy that was the Civil War, American soldiers and sailors forged a tradition of pride and ... Read more

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From an isolated and inward-looking new nation clinging to the East Coast, America in the 1800s grew in size, strength, and military might. From the War of 1812 to the century-long campaigns of conquest against Native American peoples, territorial expansion through war with Mexico to the great national tragedy that was the Civil War, American soldiers and sailors forged a tradition of pride and
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Guardians of the Home

Women's Lives in the 1800s

by Matthew Strange ...

Series series Daily Life in America in the 1800s
While often behind the scenes and hidden from history, women in 1800s America worked side by side with men in building our nation. On the frontier, strong, capable women worked as hard—or harder—than their men-folk, taming the land and raising the crops while shouldering the responsibilities of keeping house and caring for the children. The life of the farm wife in the settled parts of the country ... Read more

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While often behind the scenes and hidden from history, women in 1800s America worked side by side with men in building our nation. On the frontier, strong, capable women worked as hard—or harder—than their men-folk, taming the land and raising the crops while shouldering the responsibilities of keeping house and caring for the children. The life of the farm wife in the settled parts of the country
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Bleeding, Blistering, and Purging

Health and Medicine in the 1800s

by Matthew Strange ...

Series series Daily Life in America in the 1800s
Medicine developed into a science in the 1800s, but it was a long evolution from folk remedies and superstition to a modern understanding of how the human body works and how disease is spread. Throughout much of the century, the life expectancy of the average American was decades shorter than it is now. A lack of understanding of simple hygiene contributed to the early death of many women after ... Read more

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Medicine developed into a science in the 1800s, but it was a long evolution from folk remedies and superstition to a modern understanding of how the human body works and how disease is spread. Throughout much of the century, the life expectancy of the average American was decades shorter than it is now. A lack of understanding of simple hygiene contributed to the early death of many women after
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Death Unholy

by Phillip Strang ...

Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies ...

Series series DI Tremayne Thriller
Unabridged

7 hours 16 min

An abandoned church in a village set in time—the ideal setting for murder. Detective Inspector Tremayne and his sergeant, Clare Yarwood, are hard pushed to solve the crime and to stay alive.'Do you believe in spontaneous human combustion?' Detective Inspector Keith Tremayne asked.'Not me. I've read about it. Who hasn't?' Sergeant Clare Yarwood answered.'I haven't,' Tremayne replied which did not ... Read more

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An abandoned church in a village set in time—the ideal setting for murder. Detective Inspector Tremayne and his sergeant, Clare Yarwood, are hard pushed to solve the crime and to stay alive.'Do you believe in spontaneous human combustion?' Detective Inspector Keith Tremayne asked.'Not me. I've read about it. Who hasn't?' Sergeant Clare Yarwood answered.'I haven't,' Tremayne replied which did not
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Death by a Dead Man's Hand

by Phillip Strang ...

Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies ...

Series series DI Tremayne Thriller
Unabridged

6 hours 40 min

Dead men don't commit murders. Or do they?A flawed heist of forty gold bars from a security van late at night. One of the perpetrators is killed by his brother as they argue over what they have stolen.Eighteen years later, the murderer, released after serving his sentence for his brother's murder, waits in a church for a man purporting to be the brother he killed.The threads stretch back a long ... Read more

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Dead men don't commit murders. Or do they?A flawed heist of forty gold bars from a security van late at night. One of the perpetrators is killed by his brother as they argue over what they have stolen.Eighteen years later, the murderer, released after serving his sentence for his brother's murder, waits in a church for a man purporting to be the brother he killed.The threads stretch back a long
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The Body in the Ditch

by Phillip Strang ...

Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies ...

Series series DI Tremayne Thriller
Unabridged

7 hours 59 min

A group of children play. Not far away, in the ditch on the other side of the farmyard, the body of a young woman.The nearby village hides as many secrets as the community at the farm, a disparate group of people looking for an alternative to their previous torturous lives. Their leader, idealistic and benevolent, espouses love and kindness, and somebody's not following his dictate.The second ... Read more

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A group of children play. Not far away, in the ditch on the other side of the farmyard, the body of a young woman.The nearby village hides as many secrets as the community at the farm, a disparate group of people looking for an alternative to their previous torturous lives. Their leader, idealistic and benevolent, espouses love and kindness, and somebody's not following his dictate.The second
... Read more
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Death and the Lucky Man

by Phillip Strang ...

Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies ...

Series series DI Tremayne Thriller
Unabridged

6 hours 20 min

Sixty-eight million pounds and DEAD!Someone had once told Detective Inspector Keith Tremayne that some people were lucky and some weren't. Tremayne knew only one thing: the man lying dead in a pool of blood had qualified on the lucky after winning sixty-eight million pounds on a lottery ticket, but now his luck had run out.Tremayne knew the victim, Alan Winters; even knew his family. The man with ... Read more

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Sixty-eight million pounds and DEAD!Someone had once told Detective Inspector Keith Tremayne that some people were lucky and some weren't. Tremayne knew only one thing: the man lying dead in a pool of blood had qualified on the lucky after winning sixty-eight million pounds on a lottery ticket, but now his luck had run out.Tremayne knew the victim, Alan Winters; even knew his family. The man with
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The Horse's Mouth

by Phillip Strang ...

Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies ...

Series series DI Tremayne Thriller
Unabridged

8 hours 23 min

A day at the races for Detective Inspector Tremayne, idyllic at the outset, soon changes. A horse is dead, and then the owner's daughter is found murdered, and Tremayne's there when the body is discovered.The question is, was Tremayne set up, in the wrong place at the right time? He's the cast-iron alibi for one of the suspects, and he knows that one murder leads to two, and more often than not, ... Read more

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A day at the races for Detective Inspector Tremayne, idyllic at the outset, soon changes. A horse is dead, and then the owner's daughter is found murdered, and Tremayne's there when the body is discovered.The question is, was Tremayne set up, in the wrong place at the right time? He's the cast-iron alibi for one of the suspects, and he knows that one murder leads to two, and more often than not,
... Read more
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Death In The Village

by Phillip Strang ...

Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies ...

Series series DI Tremayne Thriller
Unabridged

6 hours 17 min

No one confessed to having murdered the woman, but when the body count starts to rise, secrets start to be revealed.Nobody liked Gloria Wiggins, a woman who regarded anyone who did not acquiesce to her jaundiced view of the world with disdain. James Baxter, the previous vicar, had been one of those, and her scurrilous outburst in the church one Sunday had hastened his death.And now, years later, ... Read more

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No one confessed to having murdered the woman, but when the body count starts to rise, secrets start to be revealed.Nobody liked Gloria Wiggins, a woman who regarded anyone who did not acquiesce to her jaundiced view of the world with disdain. James Baxter, the previous vicar, had been one of those, and her scurrilous outburst in the church one Sunday had hastened his death.And now, years later,
... Read more
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Death at Coombe Farm

by Phillip Strang ...

Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies ...

Series series DI Tremayne Thriller
Unabridged

6 hours 15 min

An idyllic setting. A violent death!If it hadn't been for the circumstances, Detective Inspector Keith Tremayne would have said the view was outstanding. Up high, overlooking the farmhouse in the valley below, the panoramic vista of Salisbury Plain stretching out beyond. The only problem was that near where he stood with his sergeant, Clare Yarwood, there was a body, and it wasn't a pleasant sight ... Read more

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An idyllic setting. A violent death!If it hadn't been for the circumstances, Detective Inspector Keith Tremayne would have said the view was outstanding. Up high, overlooking the farmhouse in the valley below, the panoramic vista of Salisbury Plain stretching out beyond. The only problem was that near where he stood with his sergeant, Clare Yarwood, there was a body, and it wasn't a pleasant sight
... Read more
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Montfield's Madness

by Phillip Strang ...

Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies ...

Series series DI Tremayne Thriller
Unabridged

7 hours 49 min

Jacob Montfield, regarded by the majority as a homeless eccentric, a nuisance by a few, had pushed a supermarket trolley around the city for years.However, one person regards him as a liability.Eccentric was correct, a nuisance, for sure, mad, plenty thought that, but few knew the truth, that Montfield is a brilliant man, once a research scientist. And even less knew that detailed within a ... Read more

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Jacob Montfield, regarded by the majority as a homeless eccentric, a nuisance by a few, had pushed a supermarket trolley around the city for years.However, one person regards him as a liability.Eccentric was correct, a nuisance, for sure, mad, plenty thought that, but few knew the truth, that Montfield is a brilliant man, once a research scientist. And even less knew that detailed within a
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