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Author : John Sadden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780752480596
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Bloody British History Portsmouth written by John Sadden and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloody British History Portsmouth
Author : Samantha Bird
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750965606
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Bloody British History: East End written by Samantha Bird and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East End of London has one of the bloodiest histories in Britain. From the beginning, the East End was known as ‘outcast London’ – it was a space beyond the city wall, where London’s unwanted or undesirables lived. East-Enders were blamed for the Great Plague of London; Jack the Ripper prowled here, as did the Ratcliffe Highway murderer and the gunmen of the famous Sidney Street siege (attended by a top-hatted Winston Churchill). Communists, Fascists, strikers, Suffragettes and Skeleton Armies have all fought running battles through its streets. Then the East End weathered the worst that the Nazi bombers could throw at it during the dark days of the Blitz. Historically viewed as a ‘den of iniquity’, and once teaming with opium dens, prostitutes (known locally as ‘tigresses’) and paupers, all living amidst the horrendous poverty depicted by Henry Mayhew and Charles Booth, this is a story of dreadful odds and of determination, filled with horror, grim British humour and hundreds of incredible years of history.
Author : Geoff Holder
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750958111
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
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 350 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 : David Boyne
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075095177X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
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 179 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 : Penny Legg
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752481932
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
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 : Clare Dixon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752497537
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
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 : Douglas Wynn
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752481894
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Bloody British History: Lincoln written by Douglas Wynn and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built by the Romans, looted by the Danes and conquered by King William I (who devastated the town to build a castle and a cathedral), the city of Lincoln has had a long and most dreadful history. Containing medieval child murder, vile sieges of (and escapes from) the castle, the savage repression of the Lincolnshire rising by King Henry VIII (who had the ringleaders hanged, drawn and quartered) and plagues, lepers, prisons, riots, typhoid, tanks and terrible hangings by the ton, you’ll never see the city in the same way again.
Author : Marianne Colloms
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752492950
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Bloody British History: Camden written by Marianne Colloms and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Death! The horrors of the plague in Camden! My wife is under the floor! The true story of Camden murderer Doctor Crippen! The elephant stampede! Weird accidents and strange events galore! Camden has a dark side to rival that of any London borough. The haunt of highwaymen, its fields also witnessed numerous duels. Crime, poverty and depravity were rife in parts of Holborn until the late nineteenth century. The first murderer to be caught using the transatlantic cable lived in Camden, and the last woman to be hanged shot her lover outside a Hampstead pub. With grave-robbers and grisly graveyard exhumations, eccentric residents and rioting peasants, and featuring tons of weird true events, you'll never see the borough in the same way again!
Author : David McGrory
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752494333
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Bloody British History: Coventry written by David McGrory and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decapitated Lord: Medieval slaughter at the castle! Yellows vs Blues: Coventry's most violent elections revealed! Kings, rebellions and rioters! Civil war comes to the city! Boiled in beer! Baked in his oven! The most dreadful Christmas calamities in Coventry's history are inside! Coventry has one of the darkest histories on record. With sieges, battles, crimes, riots, disasters, all-out attempts at demolition and some truly dreadful punishments to boot, you'll never see the city in the same way again.
Author : Robert Hallmann
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752482017
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Bloody British History: Chelmsford written by Robert Hallmann and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witches, martyrs, bodysnatchers, Zulus and rioting peasants! The Black Death in Chelmsford! The horrible true stories of the Moat Farm Murder and the death of Jael Denny! The terrible tragedy of the Great Flood of 1880! The incredible histories of Hylands House and Beaulieu! Nazi bombers over Chelmsford! Chelmsford has one of the darkest histories on record. From the skeletons lying underneath the city – which include a woolly mammoth – to the executions of thieves, witches, martyrs and murderers at Chelmsford’s gaol, this book will change the way you see the town forever. Robert the Bruce was most likely born here; Bloody Mary Tudor lived here; infamous murderers Samuel Dougal and Thomas Drory died here. Including more than sixty rare illustrations, plus an eight-page colour section, read it if you dare!
Author : Chuck Culpepper
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767928083
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Bloody Confused! written by Chuck Culpepper and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chuck Culpepper was a veteran sports journalist edging toward burnout . . . then he went to London and discovered the high-octane, fanatical (and bloody confusing!) world of English soccer. After covering the American sports scene for fifteen years, Chuck Culpepper suffered from a profound case of Common Sportswriter Malaise. He was fed up with self-righteous proclamations, steroid scandals, and the deluge of in-your-face PR that saturated the NFL, the NBA, and MLB. Then in 2006, he moved to London and discovered a new and baffling world—the renowned Premiership soccer league. Culpepper pledged his loyalty to Portsmouth, a gutsy, small-market team at the bottom of the standings. As he puts it, “It was like childhood, with beer.” Writing in the vein of perennial bestsellers such as Fever Pitch and Among the Thugs, Chuck Culpepper brings penetrating insight to the vibrant landscape of English soccer—visiting such storied franchises as Manchester United, Chelsea, and Liverpool . . . and an equally celebrated assortment of pubs. Bloody Confused! will put a smile on the face of any sports fan who has ever questioned what makes us love sports in the first place.
Author : Portsmouth WEA Local History Group
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (786 download)
Download or read book Portsmouth at War written by Portsmouth WEA Local History Group and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Slight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781104105204
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Chronicles of Portsmouth written by Henry Slight and published by . This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Simon Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135934851
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The Hutchinson Illustrated Encyclopedia of British History written by Simon Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hutchinson Illustrated Encyclopedia of British History is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the people, events, and ideas that have shaped Britain from prehistory to the present day. The editors have also sought to convey the truth that history is more than simply a compilation of facts from the past. The editors have included as much factual information as possible in each A-Z entry, and numerous tables and statistics are included, as well as many specially-created maps and plans. The chronological relationships of past events and lives are conveyed through various detailed subject chronologies (attached to the relevant A-Z entries). A large thematic chronology, following the A-Z text, provides a visual reference to the relationship between the events of British/Irish history and events elsewhere in the world. And the cultural context of as many entries as possible has been brought to life via a wide range of illustrations, which provide a wealth of visual detail and, often, a key to past conceptions. Interspersed in the text are 21 specially commissioned, extended feature articles from noted historians that provide the analysis and the sense of the broad sweep of history that would otherwise be impossible to convey in an A-Z reference book.
Author : Dr Samantha Bird
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750965606
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Bloody British History: East End written by Dr Samantha Bird and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pustules and plague corpses in Smithfield. Women disguised in men's clothing. A shark in the Thames. London's East End has a history soaked in blood. The Great Plague of London can be traced to its streets; Jack the Ripper prowled here, as did the Ratcliffe Highway murderer and the gunmen of the famous Sidney Street siege. Communists, fascists, suffragettes and the Skeleton Army have all fought through the streets of the East End, before it weathered the worst that the Nazi bombers could throw at it during the dark days of the Blitz. Historically viewed as a 'den of iniquity', and once teeming with opium dens, bodysnatchers and paupers, this is a story of dreadful odds and of determination, filled with horror, grim British humour and hundreds of incredible years of history.
Author : David J Vaughan
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075095891X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Bloody British History: Salisbury written by David J Vaughan and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saxons of Old Sarum buried alive! The plague pits of Salisbury! Cathedral organist intent on murder! The book bound in human skin! Locked in a cage with criminal lunatics! A monocled killer! Salisbury has one of the most gruesome histories on record. Human remains filled its barrows, its nobles were tortured, its witches hanged and a deadly disease once lurked in its murky waters. There was no safety in its inns either, for one was plagued with suicides and another hid a severed hand. Even the introduction of the railways led to death and destruction. With more than sixty illustrations, hundreds of years of terrible true history are waiting for you inside this book!
Author : Henry Slight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781363060177
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)
Download or read book HIST OF PORTSMOUTH written by Henry Slight and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
