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Book Synopsis Grim Almanac of Old Berkshire by : Roger Long
Download or read book Grim Almanac of Old Berkshire written by Roger Long and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Grim Almanac of Old Berkshire is a day-by-day catalogue of ghastly tales dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. Full of torment and torture, heinous homicides and cataclysms of nature, these pages contain multiple murders, horrendous hauntings and audacious thefts. Have you heard the story of the pub landlord who attempted to end it all by leaping down his own well? All he achieved was a broken ankle. Also featured here are the Watchfield farmer who tried to turn his wife into cooking fat, the family who charged people to view their relative’s decapitated body, and the violent poltergeist activity that took place at the old forge at Finchampstead and made national news headlines in 1926. This compilation of grim deeds contains a veritable plethora of poisonings, assaults, drownings, kidnappings, suicides and disasters. If you have ever wondered about what nasty goings-on occurred in the Berkshire of yesteryear, then look no further – it’s all here. But do you have the stomach for it?
Book Synopsis A Grim Almanac of Old Berkshire by : Roger Long
Download or read book A Grim Almanac of Old Berkshire written by Roger Long and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Grim Almanac of Old Berkshire is a day-by-day catalogue of ghastly tales dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. Full of torment and torture, heinous homicides and cataclysms of nature, these pages contain multiple murders, horrendous hauntings and audacious thefts. Have you heard the story of the pub landlord who attempted to end it all by leaping down his own well? All he achieved was a broken ankle. Also featured here are the Watchfield farmer who tried to turn his wife into cooking fat, the family who charged people to view their relative's decapitated body, and the violent poltergeist activity that took place at the old forge at Finchampstead and made national news headlines in 1926. This compilation of grim deeds contains a veritable plethora of poisonings, assaults, drownings, kidnappings, suicides and disasters. If you have ever wondered about what nasty goings-on occurred in the Berkshire of yesteryear, then look no further – it's all here. But do you have the stomach for it?
Book Synopsis A Grim Almanac of Oxfordshire by : Nicola Sly
Download or read book A Grim Almanac of Oxfordshire written by Nicola Sly and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Grim Almanac of Oxfordshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 366 ghastly tales from the county’s past.There are murders and manslaughters, including the killing by Mrs Barber of her entire family in 1909 while temporarily insane, and the brutal murder of four-year-old Edward Busby in 1871, killed by his mother to prevent his father ill-treating him. There are bizarre deaths, including those of four-year-old Charles Taylor, who was accidentally kicked clean through a top storey window in 1844 by a child playing on a swing, George Sheppard, who was struck by a cricket ball during a match in 1905, and of the vicar of Bucknell, who starved himself to death in 1935.There is an assortment of calamities which include strange and unusual crimes, devastating fires, rail crashes, explosions, disasters, mysteries, freak weather and a plethora of uncanny accidents.Generously illustrated, this chronicle is an entertaining and readable record of Oxfordshire’s grim past. Delve into the dreadful deeds of Oxford’s past, if you dare...
Book Synopsis A Grim Almanac of Jack the Ripper's London 1870-1900 by : Neil R Storey
Download or read book A Grim Almanac of Jack the Ripper's London 1870-1900 written by Neil R Storey and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2007-08-24 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jostling for position in this cornucopia of the criminal and the curious are diverse tales of baby farmers, garrotters, murderers, poisoners, prostitutes, pimps, rioters and rebels. Other tales tell of those who walked the poverty-stricken streets of 'the abyss', trying to earn a few honest coppers by the most unusual and desperate occupations, from tater man to tosher. This colourful cast of characters is accompanied by accounts of prisons and punishments, as well as a liberal smattering of funerals, executions, disasters and bizarre events. If it's horrible, if it's ghastly, if it's strange, its here - and if you have the stomach for it, then read on.
Book Synopsis The British National Bibliography by : Arthur James Wells
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Almanac of British Politics by : Robert Waller
Download or read book The Almanac of British Politics written by Robert Waller and published by London ; New York : Croom Helm. This book was released on 1987 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the definitive guide to the political map of the United Kingdom has been thoroughly revised and updated since the second successive Labour election victory in 2001, detailing each of the constituencies sending representatives to the House of Commons.
Book Synopsis Life in a Victorian Workhouse by : Alan Gallop
Download or read book Life in a Victorian Workhouse written by Alan Gallop and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like in a Victorian Workhouse? Was the food really as bad as we imagine? Take a step back in time with Alan Gallop and ask yourself if you could have survived in such harsh conditions.
Book Synopsis The Prison Cookbook by : Peter Higginbotham
Download or read book The Prison Cookbook written by Peter Higginbotham and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This copiously illustrated book takes the lid off the real story of prison food. Including the full text of an original prison cookery manual compiled at Parkhurst Prison in 1902, it examines the history of prison catering from the Middle Ages (when prisoners were expected to pay for their own board and lodging whilst inside) through the Newgate of the Victorian age and on to the present day. With sections on prison life, punishments, the food on board transportation vessels and floating prison hulks, and the work of reformers such as John Howard and Elizabeth Fry, who vastly improved the conditions of those who were put behind bars, this evocative and unique book shows the reader exactly what 'doing porridge' entailed.
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Book Synopsis Voices from the Workhouse by : Peter Higginbotham
Download or read book Voices from the Workhouse written by Peter Higginbotham and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices from the Workhouse tells the real inside story of the workhouse - in the words of those who experienced the institution at first hand, either as inmates or through some other connection with the institution. Using a wide variety of sources — letters, poems, graffiti, autobiography, official reports, testimony at official inquiries, and oral history, Peter Higginbotham creates a vivid portrait of what really went on behind the doors of the workhouse — all the sights, sounds and smells of the place, and the effect it had on those whose lives it touched. Was the workhouse the cruel and inhospitable place as which it’s often presented, or was there more to it than that? This book lets those who knew the place provide the answer.
Book Synopsis The British Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge for the Year ... by :
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Book Synopsis The Workhouse Encyclopedia by : Peter Higginbotham
Download or read book The Workhouse Encyclopedia written by Peter Higginbotham and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating, fully illustrated volume is the definitive guide to every aspect of the workhouse and of the poor relief system in which it played a pivotal part. Compiled by Peter Higginbotham, one of Britain's best-known experts on the subject, this A-Z cornucopia covers everything from the 1725 publication An Account of Several Work-houses to the South African Zulu admitted to Fulham Road Workhouse in 1880. With hundreds of fascinating anecdotes, plus priceless information for researchers including workhouse locations throughout the British Isles, useful websites and archive repository details, maps, plans, original workhouse publications and an extensive bibliography, it will delight family historians and general readers alike. Where was my local workhouse? What records did they keep? What is gruel and is it really what inmates lived on? How did you get out of a workhouse? What famous people were once workhouse inmates? Are there any workhouse buildings I can visit? If these are the kinds of questions you've ever wanted to know the answer to, then this is the book for you.
Book Synopsis Vanishing England by : Peter Hampson Ditchfield
Download or read book Vanishing England written by Peter Hampson Ditchfield and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Workhouse Cookbook by : Peter Higginbotham
Download or read book The Workhouse Cookbook written by Peter Higginbotham and published by History Publishing Group. This book was released on 2008 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wonderfully evocative read explores every aspect of life - and diet - in the workhouse. Including a complete reprint of the 1901 Manual of Workhouse Cookery, and with more than 100 photographs, recipes, plans and dietary tables, it is a shocking, surprising and utterly unique guide to one of the most notorious establishments of the past.The dark history of the institution - scandals, riots and, on occasion, the near starvation of the inmates - is explored in depth. With sections on subjects as varied as the special diets for children, the elderly and the sick, the treatment of troublemakers, life in the Scottish and Irish equivalents, and Christmas Day in the workhouse - including how to make Christmas pudding for 300 - this book will delight cooks, epicureans and lovers of history everywhere.
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