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  • Yorkshire's Murderous Women

    Two Centuries of Killings

    par Stephen Wade ...
    Historical accounts of Englishwomen who have killed, their varying motives, and their final fates.Yorkshire history has its share of nasty and brutal murders, and the majority of these killers have been men. Statistics show that most homicides are men. But the records over the centuries have tales of murderous women too. Stephen Wade has investigated records across England to find stories of women ... En savoir plus

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  • Notorious Murders of the Twentieth Century

    Famous and Forgotten British Cases

    par Stephen Wade ...
    The word 'murder' has always attracted widespread local and national media coverage. Once known, the story becomes the subject of discussion in a variety of places throughout the land. Some grisly tales become part of a culture that lives on for generations, whilst others, even by some of the worst serial killers, are soon forgotten. In this book experienced crime historian Stephen Wade has ... En savoir plus

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  • The Wharncliffe A–Z of Yorkshire Murder

    par Stephen Wade ...
    The history of the old county of Yorkshire has been concerned with the great and the good, the ambitious and the downright unscrupulous. Its broad acres has had more than its fair share of highprofile murders, especially though not exclusively in its burgeoning urban centres. Now there is a reference work to bring together most of the principal murders, from the mid-eighteenth century when Dick ... En savoir plus

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  • Tales from the Big House: Normanby Hall

    400 Years of Its History and People

    par Stephen Wade ...
    Tales from the Big House: Normanby Hall tells the story of a place known perhaps today mainly as the home where Samantha Cameron grew up, but historically it has been the seat of the Sheffield family, whose most famous member was arguably the Duke of Buckingham in the seventeenth century. As with most country houses, the Hall was used as a military hospital in the Great War, and in the Second ... En savoir plus

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  • Britain's Most Notorious Prisoners

    Victorian to Present-Day Cases

    par Stephen Wade ...
    From Oscar Wilde to the Kray brothers—a unique history of the lives and crimes of the United Kingdom's most famous, and infamous, inmates.Their names can chill the blood of true-crime aficionados: Peter Sutcliffe, aka The Yorkshire Ripper; child-torturer Ian Brady; cannibal Dennis Nilsen; serial killer Beverley Allitt. Some are tinged in glamour: beautiful nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis, hanged for ... En savoir plus

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  • Jane Austens Aunt Behind Bars

    Writers and their Criminal Relatives and Associates, 17001900

    par Stephen Wade ...
    Writers between 1700 and 1900 were always likely to see the inside of British prisons if their work had any kind of radical element, or anything that could be considered libellous or seditious. Even the great and successful novelists, poets and journalists of those years fell foul of the law, or perhaps knew others who did so.‘Jane Austen’s Aunt Behind Bars: Writers and Their Criminal Relatives ... En savoir plus

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  • Lost to the Sea, Britain's Vanished Coastal Communities

    The Yorkshire Coast & Holderness

    par Stephen Wade ...
    Once there was a Roman settlement on what is now Filey Brig. In Holderness, a prosperous town called Ravenser saw kings and princes on its soil, and its progress threatened the good people of Grimsby. But the Romans and the Ravenser folk are long gone, as are their streets and buildings sunk beneath the hungry waves of what was once the German Ocean.Lost to the Sea: The Yorkshire Coast & ... En savoir plus

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  • A Dictionary of True Crime

    A Reference Guide to the Dark and Curious Crimes of British History

    par Stephen Wade ...
    A comprehensive A-Z guide to notorious and lesser-known extreme crimes, criminals, and legal cases from the 17th century to today.A Dictionary of True Crime is a guide to the most compelling cases of extreme and violent crime in the writing files, from the 17th century to present day. Amongst notorious criminals like Jack the Ripper and the Moors Murderers, lesser-known but provoking cases which ... En savoir plus

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  • Britain's Most Notorious Hangmen

    par Stephen Wade ...
    A breathtaking history of Britain's executioners—from the seventeenth court of King Charles II to the UK's last official hangman of the twentieth century.In 1663, Jack Ketch delighted in his profession and gained notoriety not only because of those he executed—dukes and lords—but for how often he botched the job. Centuries later, in 1965, after nearly six hundred trips to the gallows, Albert ... En savoir plus

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  • Notorious Prisons of the World

    par Stephen Wade ...
    A captivating history of doing time throughout the centuries: from England's medieval dungeons to America's supermax detention facilities.The first prisons were castle hellholes, places of neglect, oblivion, and slow death. Every civilization has had its dissenters, deviants, and political offenders, and so prisons became essential to the retention of power. As the centuries passed, and prisons ... En savoir plus

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  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Liverpool

    par Stephen Wade ...
    Collections series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    The disturbing, criminal history of Britain's "World Capital City of Pop"—home of murderers, thieves, bodysnatchers . . . and The Beatles.The city of Liverpool, England, was like every other city energized by the Victorian boon in industry and trade. It is best known today as the home of the British Invasion and music that changed the world. But Liverpool's history has a less harmonious side, and ... En savoir plus

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  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Scunthorpe

    par Stephen Wade ...
    Collections series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    A revealing criminal history of the old industrial town in North Lincolnshire, England, that has been home to centuries of dark secrets and twisted crimes.As the iron and steel industries grew in the Victorian period, several villages merged into the town of Scunthorpe, an area with more than its fair share of sordid and bloody secrets. Although mainly rural, the region has been notorious in the ... En savoir plus

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