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Hanged at Pentonville

Author : Steve Fielding
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075095339X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Hanged at Pentonville written by Steve Fielding and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2008-02-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of execution at Pentonville began with the hanging of a Scottish hawker in 1902. Over the next sixty years the names of those who made the short walk to the gallows reads like a who's who of twentieth-century murder. They include the notorious Dr Crippen, Neville Heath, mass murderer John Christie of Rillington Place, as well as scores of forgotten criminals: German spies, Italian gangsters, teenage tearaways, cut-throat killers and many more. Infamous executioners also played a part in the gaol's history: the Billington family of Bolton, Rochdale barber John Ellis and Robert Baxter of Hertford who, for over a decade, was the sole executioner at Pentonville. For many years the prison was used to train the country's hangmen, including members of the well-known Pierrepoint family, Harry Allen and Robert Leslie Stewart, the country's last executioners. Fully illustrated with photographs, news-cuttings and engravings, Hanged at Pentonville is bound to appeal to anyone interested in the darker side of London's history.

Hanged at Liverpool

Author : Steve Fielding
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750953373
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Hanged at Liverpool written by Steve Fielding and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2008-06-08 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years the high walls of Liverpool's Walton Gaol have contained some of the most infamous criminals from the north of England. Taking over from the fearsome Kirkdale House of Correction as the main centre of execution for Liverpool and other parts of Lancashire and neighbouring counties, a total of sixty-two murderers paid the ultimate penalty here. The history of execution at Walton began with the hanging of an Oldham nurse in 1887, and over the next seventy years many infamous criminals took the short walk to the gallows here. They include Blackburn child killer Peter Griffiths, whose guilt was secured following a massive fingerprint operation; Liverpool's Sack Murderer George Ball; George Kelly, since cleared of the Cameo Cinema murders, as well as scores of forgotten criminals: soldiers, gangsters, cut-throat killers and many more. Steve Fielding has fully researched all these cases, and they are collected here in one volume for the first time. Infamous executioners also played a part in the gaol's history. James Berry of Bradford was the first to officiate here, followed in due course by the Billington family of Bolton, Rochdale barber John Ellis and three members of the well-known Pierrepoint family, whose names appeared on the official Home Office list for over half a century. In 1964 one of the last two executions in the county took place at Liverpool. Fully illustrated with photographs, new cuttings and engravings, Hanged at Liverpool is bound to appeal to anyone interested in the darker side of both Liverpool and the north of England's history.

Hanged at Lincoln

Author : Stephen Wade
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750952423
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Hanged at Lincoln written by Stephen Wade and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-07-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing book gathers together the stories of 120 criminals hanged at both Lincoln Castle Prison and HMP Lincoln on Greetwell Road between 1203 and 1961. The condemned featured here range from coiners and forgers, to thieves, highwamen and poisoners. Among those executed at Lincoln were Richard Insole, hanged in 1887 for murdering his wife; child killer Frederick Nodder, hanged in 1937; and Herbert Leonard Mills, who failed to commit the perfect murder and was hanged in 1951 by Albert Pierrepoint. Fully illustrated with photographs, drawings, news cuttings and documents, Hanged at Lincoln will appeal to everyone interested in the shadier side of Lincoln's history.

Behind Bars – Britain's Most Notorious Prisoner Reveals What Life is Like Inside

Author : Charles Bronson
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782192506
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Behind Bars – Britain's Most Notorious Prisoner Reveals What Life is Like Inside written by Charles Bronson and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie has taken his 24 years of experience of prison dwelling and condensed it into one handy and comprehensive volume. Moved regularly around the prisons of the British Isles he has sampled all that prison life has to offer, taking in both the historic and pre-historic buildings that comprise Britain's infamous prison system. It's all in here from the correct way to brew vintage prison 'hooch' and how to keep the screws from finding it, to the indispensable culinary methods required to make prison food edible. Read about Charlie's special taming techniques for prison wildlife such as spiders, rats and cockroaches, creatures that may be your only friends on long stretches in solitary. Also Charlie shows how to plan and prepare for marriage inside what can be seen as a less than romantic setting. With over 70,000 people (and rising) currently residing at Her Majesty's pleasure, Charlie Bronson's "Good Prison Guide" is essential for young offenders and 'old lags' alike. Make sure you don't get nicked without it.

Fighting for the United States, Executed in Britain

Author : Simon Webb
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 152679098X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Fighting for the United States, Executed in Britain written by Simon Webb and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relates a chapter of American military history which many people would rather forget. When the United States came to the aid of Britain in 1942, the arrival of American troops was greeted with unreserved enthusiasm, but unfortunately, wartime sometimes brings out the worst, as well as the best, in people. A small number of the soldiers abused the hospitality they received by committing murders and rapes against British civilians. Some of these men were hanged or shot at Shepton Mallet Prison in Somerset, which had been handed over for the use of the American armed forces. Due to a treaty between Britain and America, those accused of such offences faced an American court martial, rather than a British civilian court, which gave rise to some curious anomalies. Although rape had not been a capital crime in Britain for over a century, it still carried the death penalty under American military law and so the last executions for rape in Britain were carried out at this time in Shepton Mallet. Fighting For the United States, Executed in Britain tells the story of every American soldier executed in Britain during the Second World War. The majority of the executed soldiers were either black or Hispanic, reflecting the situation in the United States itself, where the ethnicity of the accused person often played a key role in both convictions and the chances of subsequently being executed.

The Guy Liddell Diaries, Volume I: 1939-1942

Author : Nigel West
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134263449
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book The Guy Liddell Diaries, Volume I: 1939-1942 written by Nigel West and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of Nigel West's acclaimed presentation of these fascinating diaries from the heart of Britain's Second World War intelligence operations. 'No intelligence buff can be without this volume and anyone interested in British twentieth century history needs it too.' M.R.D. Foot, The Spectator 'Regarded by historians as the most important military intelligence documents from the whole of the Second World War.' Irish Independent '[A] unique insight into the espionage secrets of the Second World War. Its historical importance is enhanced by the editing of Nigel West who, apart from decoding several obscure references to the secret war, persuaded the Security Service to break their rule of maintaining an agent's anonymity.' BBC History Magazine WALLFLOWERS is the codename given to one of the Security Service's most treasured possessions, the daily journal dictated from August 1939 to June 1945 by MI5's Director of Counter Espionage, Guy Liddell, to his secretary, Margo Huggins. The document was considered so highly classified that it was retained in the safe of successive Directors General, and special permission was required to read it. No other member of the Security Service is known to have maintained a diary and the twelve volumes of this journal represent a unique record of the events and personalities of the period, a veritable tour d'horizon of the entire subject. As Director, B Division, Liddell supervised all the major pre-war and wartime espionage investigations, maintained a watch on suspected pro-Nazis and laid the foundations of the famous 'double cross system' of enemy double agents. He was unquestionably one of the most reclusive and remarkable men of his generation, and a legend within his own organization.

Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence

Author : Nigel West
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810878976
Total Pages : 787 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence written by Nigel West and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Intelligence is the oldest, most experienced organization of its kind in the world, the unseen hand behind so many world events, and glamorized by James Bond. Despite the change in role, from a global power controlling an Empire that covered much of the world, to a mere partner in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union, the country’s famed security and intelligence apparatus continues largely intact, and recognized as “punching above its weight.” Feared by the Soviets, admired and trusted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), British Intelligence has provided the hidden dimension to the conduct of domestic and foreign policy, with the added mystique of Whitehall secrecy, a shroud that for years protected the identities of the shadowy figures who recruited the sources, broke the codes, and caught the spies. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the British Intelligence covers the history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries on specific operations, spies and their handlers, the moles and defectors, top leaders, and main organizations. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the British Intelligence.

A History of London's Prisons

Author : Geoffrey Howse
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783030674
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book A History of London's Prisons written by Geoffrey Howse and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The A-Z of London Murders takes readers behind the bars of the city’s numerous jails and tells the tales of their most infamous inmates. London has had more prisons than any other British city. The City’s “gates” once contained prisons but probably the most notorious of all was Newgate, which stood for over seven hundred years. The eleventh-century Tower of London was used as a prison for a variety of high profile prisoners from Sir Thomas More to the Krays. Discover the background of a variety of historic places of incarceration such as the Clink, the King’s Bench Prison, and debtors’ prisons such as the Fleet Prison and the Marshalsea. “Lost” prisons such as the Gatehouse in Westminster, Millbank Penitentiary, Surrey County Gaol in Horsemonger Lane, the House of Detention, Coldbath Fields Prison, and Tothill Fields Bridewell Prison are also described in detail; as are more familiar jails: Holloway, Pentonville, Brixton, Wandsworth, and Wormwood Scrubs. In A History of London’s Prisons, Geoffrey Howse delves not only into the intricate web of historical facts detailing the origins of the capital’s prisons but also includes fascinating detail concerning the day-to-day life of prisoners—from the highly born to the most despicable human specimens imaginable—as well as those less fortunate individuals who found themselves through no fault of their own “in the clink,” some soon becoming clients of the hangman or executioner.

The Executioners Bible

Author : Steve Fielding
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1843586967
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book The Executioners Bible written by Steve Fielding and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Executioner's Bible" tells the story of these working-class men who carried out this gruesome profession until its abolition in the late 1960's. Despite often being unassuming and quiet professionals, men like Albert Pierrepoint, William Billington and many other Chief and Assistant executioners made a name for themselves in a world hungry for salacious and gruesome news. Read about the bungling hangmen sacked for incompetence; drunken executioners dismissed for brawling; one hangman driven to suicide and another who 'got out just in time', to the last men to pull the lever at the height of the swinging sixties. They were the last of their kind: the hangmen of the 20th Century. And this is their fascinating sometimes repugnant, always enthralling story. The secrets of over six controversial decades of capital punishment are finally revealed.

Hanging in the Balance

Author : Brian P. Block
Publisher : Waterside Press
ISBN 13 : 1872870473
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Hanging in the Balance written by Brian P. Block and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of the long road to abolition in the UK by two highly respected commentators - a classic of the genre.

Mad Frank's Underworld History of Britain

Author : Frank Fraser
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0753546280
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (535 download)

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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.

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Hampstead, Holburn & St Pancras

Author : Mark Aston
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1783408286
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Hampstead, Holburn & St Pancras written by Mark Aston and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read about crimes over the centuries in this historic area of London—includes photos and illustrations. In this collection of true crime stories, each chapter investigates the darker side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit, and pure malice in this corner of London. From crimes of passion to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of murder, the full spectrum of criminality is recounted, bringing to life the sinister history of this part of the capital over the last four hundred years. Included are tales of assassination, highway robbery, and duels, as well as the infamous case of Dr. Crippen in 1910 and the story of the last women to be hanged in Britain.

Scenes Of Murder

Author : Winston Ramsey
Publisher : After the Battle
ISBN 13 : 1399077074
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Scenes Of Murder written by Winston Ramsey and published by After the Battle. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, After the Battle have explored entirely new ground to investigate 150 years of murder and present it through our then and now theme of comparison photographs. Scene of crime plans and photographs from police files focus on a wide variety of murders committed between 1812, when a Prime Minister was shot in the House of Commons, to killings on the streets of London in the 1960s. Far too often it is the perpetrator who is remembered while their victims, many lying in unmarked graves, remain lost to history. So this book sets out to redress the balance by tracking down the last resting places, even going as far as to mark two wartime graves of taxi drivers killed by American servicemen. Homicide is not a subject for the faint-hearted and many of the photographs are distressing which is why the book is made available with that warning.

16 Dead Men: The Easter Rising Executions

Author : Anne-Marie Ryan
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781173060
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book 16 Dead Men: The Easter Rising Executions written by Anne-Marie Ryan and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen men were executed in the aftermath of the Easter Rising in Ireland, 1916: fifteen were shot and one was hanged. Their deaths changed the course of Irish history. But who were these leaders who set in motion events that would lead to the creation of an independent Ireland? The executed leaders of the Easter Rising were a diverse group. This book contains fascinating accounts of the life stories of these men and recounts the events that brought each of them to rebellion in April 1916.

Rough Justice

Author : David Tremain
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445661594
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Rough Justice written by David Tremain and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What made a Dutchman escape to England in 1942 ostensibly to betray his country to the Germans? This story has remained a mysterious episode of the Second World War until now.

London: The Executioner's City

Author : David Brandon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 1803991623
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book London: The Executioner's City written by David Brandon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tyburn Fields is the best known site of execution in London, but London may be aptly named the executioner's city, so many were the places where executions could and did occur. This book reveals the capital as a place where the bodies of criminals defined the boundaries of the city and heads on poles greeted patrons on London Bridge.

Supper with the Crippens

Author : David James Smith
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 140913413X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Supper with the Crippens written by David James Smith and published by Orion. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwardian London in 1910, the notorious tale of Dr Crippen and Ethel Le Neve re-investigated by a prizewinning journalist. At a time when Edwardian Britain seemed a golden place, basking in its imperial glory, Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen and his wife Belle lived among the suburban villas of North London, renting a house at 39 Hilldrop Crescent. After supper on 31 January 1910, their friends went home and Crippen killed Belle with poison, dismembered her body and buried some of her remains beneath the brick floor of the coal cellar. Crippen never admitted killing his wife and took the secrets of the crime with him when he was hanged, following his conviction for murder. It is assumed that Crippen killed for the love of his mistress, Ethel le Neve. They began living together as man and wife, but under intense suspicion they fled disguised as father and son. The chase - indeed everything about the murder - was reported in fine detail, in Britain, in America and the rest of the western world. Crippen was finally arrested and with Ethel was brought back to England for trial. David James Smith has investigated afresh this celebrated murder case, and his researches have uncovered unexpected and startling information about 'Chamber of Horrors' stalwart Dr Crippen, Belle and Ethel.