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Author : Edward T. Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781874358039
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Britain's Godfather written by Edward T. Hart and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. C. Dutton
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1783068248
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Godfathers of London written by M. C. Dutton and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three different and gruesome murders in the East End of London with no link between them. Someone had to do it and someone was going to die. Again, Police Detective Sergeant Jazwinder Singh gets involved and there starts a pacey and thrilling ride.
Author : Carl Chinn
Publisher : John Blake
ISBN 13 : 1789462940
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (894 download)
Download or read book Peaky Blinders: The Legacy - The real story of Britain's most notorious 1920s gangs written by Carl Chinn and published by John Blake. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Carl Chinn The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family have become cult anti-heroes. Well-known social historian, broadcaster and author, Carl Chinn, revealed the true story of the notorious gang in his bestselling Peaky Blinders: The Real Story and now in this follow-up book, he explores the legacy they created in Birmingham and beyond. What happened to them and their gangland rivals? In Peaky Blinders: The Legacy we revisit the world of Billy Kimber's Peaky Blinders, exploring their legacy throughout the 1920s and 30s, and how their burgeoning empires spread across the UK. Delve into the street wars across the country, the impact of the declaration of War on Gangs by the Home Secretary after The Racecourse War in 1921, and how black-market bookmaking gave way to new and daring opportunities for the likes of Sabini, Alfie Solomon and some new faces in the murky gangland underworld. Drawing on Carl's inimitable research, interviews and original sources, find out just what happened to this incredible cast of characters, revealing the true legacy of the Peaky Blinders.
Author : Frank Fraser
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0753546280
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Mad Frank's Underworld History of Britain written by Frank Fraser and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sites of gruesome murders, stories of killings, frauds, jewel thefts and treachery are all part of Mad Frankie Fraser's grand tour of Britain's criminal underworld. As one of the most notorious gangsters of the 20th Century, he is perfectly placed to give us the lowdown on crimes from up and down the country, plus his take on crimes he was personally involved in and cases as yet unsolved. Written with crime author James Morton, this is the definitive guide to Britain's many lives of crime.
Author : Heather Shore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137313919
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book London's Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720 - c. 1930 written by Heather Shore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original and exciting analysis of the concept of the criminal underworld. Print culture, policing and law enforcement, criminal networks, space and territory are explored here through a series of case studies taken from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author : Robert Jeffrey
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845025105
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Glasgow's Godfather written by Robert Jeffrey and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Norval was a man marked by destiny to be a career criminal in one of Britain's hardest cities. As a boy he grew up in a world of illegal betting, violent canal bank pitch-and-toss schools, sleazy dance halls, brothels and bars where the denizens of the slums in the north side of Glasgow slaked gargantuan thirsts and plotted murder and mayhem. Before he had reached his teens, close relatives had died as blood was spilled in the streets. As a youngster he ran 'messages' for the toughest gangsters in the city and stood guard over the pots of cash in illegal gambling schools. It was a remarkable apprenticeship, dangerous and sometimes deadly. It honed a latent toughness and a talent for lawbreaking that saw him emerge in the Seventies as the first of a succession of Glasgow godfathers. Dressed in pinstriped style, he controlled his foot soldiers with fearsome fists and planned robberies with the attention to detail of a military general. He organised various Glasgow fighting factions into a single gang, which pulled off a spectacular series of robberies. But, unlike his successors, he abhorred drugs and drug-dealing.And, in a remarkable twist, he joined the anti-drugs war in later life. His story - told by the best-selling crime historian Robert Jeffrey - provides a fascinating insight into the making of a criminal mastermind, from boy to man.
Author : Frank Fraser
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0753546264
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Mad Frank's Britain written by Frank Fraser and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mad Frankie Fraser has become a household name, known to millions as one of London's most notorious gangsters. In Mad Frank's London - his fourth book - Frank continues the shocking stories of his life of crime. Frankie Fraser recalls the good and the bad times, brings the criminals of his acquaintance to life, and guides us through the darker streets of London - as only a born Londoner, and true gangster could.
Author : Carl Chinn
Publisher : John Blake
ISBN 13 : 1789464528
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (894 download)
Download or read book Peaky Blinders: The Aftermath: The real story behind the next generation of British gangsters written by Carl Chinn and published by John Blake. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Carl Chinn As Britain emerges into the mid-twentieth century, change is afoot. Cities are beginning to shift from smog-filled industrial hubs to more efficient metropolitan centres of commerce and, despite the country once again being blighted by war, society is beginning to shift towards a more modern, forward-thinking era. But change is not only limited to regular men and women; under the shifting tides of development, the criminal underbelly, too, is evolving, anxious for new avenues of exploitation and expansion . . . And so, in the third instalment of his best-selling series, historian Carl Chinn examines this new era in the landscape of Britain's gangs. After the violent reign of the Peaky Blinders, the intimidation of the Birmingham gang and frequent gang wars up and down the country, from the wreckage new groups are emerging with new ways of making money and causing trouble, and, like those who came before them, they leave havoc and destruction in their wake. Peaky Blinders: The Aftermath will bring this new generation of criminals into focus. And up and down the length of the country, from the dog tracks to the pubs of the East End, it delves into the murky world of the country's most villainous criminals.
Author : Brian Mcdonald
Publisher : Milo Books Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Gangs of London written by Brian Mcdonald and published by Milo Books Ltd. This book was released on with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Lifts the lid on London gangs of the last two centuries' THE WEEKLY NEWS 'Lays bare the truth behind the capital's underworld far before the Krays and the Richardsons became well known' THE WHARF 'Incredible real-life tales' SOUTHWARK NEWS Long before the Kray twins, London was plagued by gang warfare as vicious as anything that was to come. From the 19th century onwards, violent mobs fought pitched battles for territory and local pride. The Bethnal Green Boys hunted Hackney's Broadway Boys, Clerkenwell took on Somers Town, the Red Hands prowled Deptford and the Silver Hatchets terrorised Islington, while the police and judiciary seemed powerless to stop them. The first-ever history of these intriguing street mobs traces them from Jonathan Wild, the archetype for Dickens' Fagin, to sprawling super-gangs like the Titanic and the Elephant Boys. It tells the bloody story of the racecourse wars, when Darby Sabini and Billy Kimber slugged it out for control of gambling pitches, and of such big hitters as George Sage, the guv'nor of Camden Town, Dodger Mullins and the McDonald brothers. Eventually these local 'firms' spawned notorious gangsters such as Jack Spot, Billy Hill and Johnny Carter, who carved out organised crime rackets across the capital. Gangs of London is a riveting journey through the dark underbelly of one of the world's great cities.
Author : Carl Chinn
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789461731
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (894 download)
Download or read book Peaky Blinders - The Real Story of Birmingham's most notorious gangs written by Carl Chinn and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family blind enemies by slashing them with the disposable safety razor blades stitched in to the peaks of their flat caps, as they fight bloody gangland wars involving Irish terrorists and the authorities led by a devious Home Secretary, Winston Churchill. But who were the real Peaky Blinders? Did they really exist? Well-known social historian, broadcaster and author, Carl Chinn, has spent decades searching them out. Now he reveals the true story of the notorious Peaky Blinders, one of whom was his own great grandfather and, like the Shelbys, his grandfather was an illegal bookmaker in back-street Birmingham. In this gripping social history, Chinn shines a light on the rarely reported struggles of the working class in one of the great cities of the British Empire before the First World War. The story continues after 1918 as some Peaky Blinders transformed into the infamous Birmingham Gang. Led by the real Billy Kimber, they fought a bloody war with the London gangsters Darby Sabini and Alfie Solomon over valuable protection rackets extorting money from bookmakers across the booming postwar racecourses of Britain. Drawing together a remarkably wide-range of original sources, including rarely seen images of real Peaky Blinders and interviews with relatives of the 1920s gangsters, Peaky Blinders: The Real Story adds a new dimension to the true history of Birmingham's underworld and fact behind its fiction.
Author : Scott Smith-Bannister
Publisher : Oxford Historical Monographs
ISBN 13 : 9780198206637
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Names and Naming Patterns in England, 1538-1700 written by Scott Smith-Bannister and published by Oxford Historical Monographs. This book was released on 1997 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: Results of the first large-scale quantitative investigation of naming practices in early modern England.
Author : Thomas Warren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book A History and Genealogy of the Warren Family in Normandy, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Holland, Tuscany, United States of America, Etc. (A.D. 912-1902) written by Thomas Warren and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Judy, Or the London Serio-comic Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Madeleine Passmore
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803813199
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Secrets Exposed written by Madeleine Passmore and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life and secrets of Elizabeth and Margaret, who had been best friends since their birth in 1936, despite their different backgrounds, upbringing and personalities. Elizabeth and Margaret grew up together, in Devon, where Elizabeth lived and Margaret was evacuated to, during the war. After the war their lives separated for a few years before they joined together again. As they married and had children secrets started to emerge, some small, some bigger, ending in a large one never to be told. Secrets discovered include homosexuality, illegitimate children, and missing families. The book opens with Margaret's wedding to Peter, who her mother had rescued from the London bombings and sent him to live with Elizabeth and her family, he remained there after war. The day after the wedding, Peter discovers the truth behind the blooded sheet of her wedding night to her first husband, Hugh. At the wedding of Charles, Margaret's widowed husband, to Susan, Edith was involved in a purposeful accident which led to the discovery of her late brother's illegitimate daughter. When Xavier was 5 a letter came confirming his place at Eton that September. Margaret did not want him to go, Peter intervened and it was delayed until he was 11. He found out that Margaret's late husband had done this. Peter had to explain that her Hugh was planning to leave her for his lover, Howard. Margaret and Peter were invited to Margaret's nephew's christening, Hugh's brother's son. At the christening Peter was roped in as a replacement godparent. Because Hugh's brother was an MP the christening was covered in the local media. It was this that lead Peter's estranged father made contact and the mystery of his disappearance revealed. This in turn lead to the discovery of his mother's family, who she had run away from. Elizabeth's uncle, her father's brother, and his wife had adopted two girls, they also had a son. When the older girl turned twenty one she wanted to find her natural parents. This made the other daughter want to do the same. The second daughter did discover her parents, which caused shock waves through the family. The book closed with the wedding of Elizabeth's daughter, Chloe marrying Xavier.
Author : Sir Henry Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Popular Antiquities of Great Britain written by Sir Henry Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malte Hagener
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3476036863
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Film – An International Bibliography written by Malte Hagener and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kommentierte Bibliografie. Sie gibt Wissenschaftlern, Studierenden und Journalisten zuverlässig Auskunft über rund 6000 internationale Veröffentlichungen zum Thema Film und Medien. Die vorgestellten Rubriken reichen von Nachschlagewerk über Filmgeschichte bis hin zu Fernsehen, Video, Multimedia.
Author : Charles Henry Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Judy, or, The London serio-comic journal, ed. by C.H. Ross written by Charles Henry Ross and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
