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Author : Geoffrey Howse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781336208643
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Murder and Mayhem in North London written by Geoffrey Howse and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Howse
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1844687406
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Murder & Mayhem in North London written by Geoffrey Howse and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting history of true crimes in the area over the centuries, with photos and illustrations. From Islington to Finsbury Park to Hackney Wick, the North London area has been the setting of countless crimes from the notorious to the obscure. In this book, Geoffrey Howse delves into the files covering hundreds of years of the area’s darkest past. Events covered include long forgotten cases that made the headlines in their day as well as others more famous: the seventeenth-century murder of a magistrate for which three innocent men were hanged Britain’s first railway murder the first criminal to be caught via wireless telegraphy the anarchists who left a trail of murder and mayhem following a raid on a Tottenham factory and many more that will fascinate those with an interest in the local and social history of London
Author : Geoffrey Howse
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1845630998
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Murder and Mayhem in North London written by Geoffrey Howse and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Howse delves into the his crime files covering 200 years of the area's darkest past. Events covered include long forgotten cases that made the headlines in their day as well as others more famous: Britain's first railway murder, the first criminal to be caught via wireless telegraphy and the anarchists who left a trail of murder and mayhem following a raid on a Tottenham factory. There are many other cases to appeal to anyone with an interest in the local and social history of North London.
Author : Barry Anthony
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085772682X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Murder, Mayhem and Music Hall written by Barry Anthony and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strand is one of London's most iconic streets - today the bustling and thriving home of West End theatres and the luxurious Savoy hotel; in the Victorian era, the Strand was a much more seedy and destitute part of the city. Barry Anthony here explores the criminal and socially subversive behaviour which abounded in and around the Victorian Strand. He introduces us to a vast range of personalities - from prostitutes, confidence tricksters, vagrants and cadgers to the actors, comedians and music hall stars who trod the boards of the Strand's early theatres.
Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144561491X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Murder Houses of London written by Jan Bondeson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which of London's most gruesome murders happened in your street? And were they committed by Jack the Ripper, the Kray twins, the Blackout Ripper or ‘Acid Bath’ Haigh?
Author : Geoffrey Howse
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752484575
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book North London Murders written by Geoffrey Howse and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the centuries North London has witnessed literally thousands of murders: those included within the pages of this book have shocked, fascinated and enthralled the public and commentators for generations. From Britain's first railway murder, a case that turned on the evidence provided by a distinctive style of hat, to the appalling story of two Islington woman convicted after 'disposing of' babies in their care, these are crimes that both horrified and captivated the public. No volume covering the murders of this part of London would be complete without an examination of the Crippen case; the name of Frederick Henry Seddon, hanged for poisoning Miss Eliza Barrow, is now less well known, although for several decades his waxwork effigy was a popular exhibit at Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors and his story is an extraordinary one. Among other cases included here, North London Murders also re-examines the crimes of serial 'bride-killer' George Joseph Smith, the tragic story of Ruth Ellis and David Blakely, and the killing of Joe Orton by Kenneth Halliwell.
Author : Scott Lomax
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473822432
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Unsolved Murders in South Yorkshire written by Scott Lomax and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst the passage of time can and has uncovered many secrets, killers could get away with their crimes in 1596 when Shakespeare penned these words and this is certainly the case in more recent times as Unsolved Murders in South Yorkshire clearly demonstrate.The early chapters include cases of historic interest where killers certainly went to the grave in the knowledge they had got away with murder. Cases include suspicious deaths which left detectives in South Yorkshire baffled, but which were, it would seem, acts of callous murder which were not recognised as such due to dubious police opinions and practices. There are also cases of clear murder such as a man shot in the head during the Victorian period, whose killer was never identified.The later chapters, however, feature more recent cold cases where there is still the possibility that the wicked men or women who were responsible for such acts of inhumanity may remain within our society.Cases include a man murdered for less than 70 in a city centre multi storey car park, a teenage girl abducted, sexually assaulted and left dead on a dung hill, a young mother who entered prostitution and died at the hands of a man with more than sex on his mind, a pregnant woman who left home one day to go shopping but was found days later dead in a ditch with her throat cut and a disabled woman who was strangled in her home which was then set ablaze.For some of these cases there is the chance that someone has information which, despite the passage of decades, could lead to one or more individuals standing trial for murder. Justice can still prevail.
Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178462974X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Murder Houses of Greater London written by Jan Bondeson and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which of Greater London’s most gruesome murders happened in your street? And were they committed by Graham Frederick Young (the poisoner of the North Circular Road), by the murderous Donald Hume, or by that monster Dennis Nilsen? Sometimes quiet suburban terraces hide the most terrible secrets... Read about the ‘Hampstead Triangle’ – home to a surprising number of celebrated murders – as well as another triangle of violent deaths in Kensal Rise and ponder some very mysterious unsolved murders. Armed with this book and a good London map, you will be able to do some murder house detection work of your own.
Author : Scott Lomax
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844687007
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Deadly Derbyshire written by Scott Lomax and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of historical British true crime stories, with illustrations included. From the murder of Hannah Hewitt in 1732 to John Cotton’s killing in 1898, Deadly Derbyshire gathers dramatic, atmospheric true tales of murder and manslaughter in this county in England’s East Midlands. Read about the “fiery” circumstances of the death of John McMorrow; a farm tragedy at Stoney Houghton; and killings for pittances such as three eggs and a sixpence. You’ll also discover stories of unprovoked and wicked deeds and numerous suspicious deaths. Based on extensive research of newspaper archives, uncovering a large number of cases never previously explored, this compendium examines the darker side of this historical port city.
Author : Geoffrey Howse
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783030674
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
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.
Author : Gilda O'Neill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857573636
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)
Download or read book The Good Old Days written by Gilda O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Moore
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750963336
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Murder at the Inn written by James Moore and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In which pub was the notorious murder that led to the Kray twins becoming Britain's most feared gangsters? Where is the hostelry in which Jack the Ripper's victims drank? How did Burke and Hare befriend their victims in a Scottish watering hole before luring them to their deaths? What is the name of the pub where the Lord Lucan mystery first came to light? And how did a pub become the scene of the murder that led to Ruth Ellis going to the gallows? For centuries, the history of beer and pubs has gone hand in hand with some of the nation's most despicable and fascinating crimes. Packed with grizzly murders – including fascinating little-known cases – as well as sinister stories of smuggling, robbery and sexual intrigue, Murder at the Inn is a treasure trove of dark tales linked to the best drinking haunts and historic hotels across the land.
Author : Gilda O'Neill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911445524
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (455 download)
Download or read book The Good Old Days written by Gilda O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438421990
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Murder, Mayhem, Pillage, and Plunder written by and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1988-07-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's analysis of the internecine strife and fierce clan rivalry rampant in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries puts into perspective the turmoil into which the Lebanon has fallen today. This translation comprises the memoirs of several generations of the Mishāqa family. The author, Mikhāyil Mishāqa (1800-1888), a many-faceted individual, was raised in Dayr al-Qamar, then the princely seat of Mount Lebanon, apprenticed as a merchant in Damietta, Egypt. He served as financial comptroller to the Shihab emirs of Hasbayya and in his later years was a physician and consul to the United States in Damascus. Mishāqa gives a vivid picture of life and history during the period. From his position he was privy to political deliberations and knew intimately the clan chiefs, pashas and princes who were the principal agents of change. The book contains information unavailable elsewhere of importance to political and social historians, on life during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Large portions of the original text that are of particular interest for the study of the interaction of the various ethno-religious groups that inhabit the area, were at one time expunged from the printed Arabic version as too sensitive, but are included in this comprehensive English translation.
Author : Suneel Mehmi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000428621
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Law, Literature and the Power of Reading written by Suneel Mehmi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the intersection of law, literature and history, this book interrogates how a dominant contemporary idea of law emerged out of specific ideas of reading in the nineteenth century. Reading shapes our identities. How we read shapes who we are. Reading also shapes our conceptions of what the law is, because the law is also a practice of reading. Focusing on the works of key Victorian writers closely associated with legal practice, this book addresses the way in which the identity of the reader of law has been modelled on the identity of the political elite. At the same time, it shows how other readers of law have been marginalised. The book thus shows how a construction of the law has emerged from the ordering of a power that discriminates between different readers and readings. More specifically, and in response to the emerging media of photography – and, with it, potentially subversive ideas of exposure and visibility – the book shows that there have been dominant, hidden and unrecognised guides to legal reading and to legal thought. And in making these visible, the book also aims to make them contestable. This secret history of law will appeal to legal historians, legal theorists, those working at the intersection of law and literature and others with interests in law and the visual.
Author : Peter Goodrich
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789906008
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)
Download or read book Advanced Introduction to Law and Literature written by Peter Goodrich and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Goodrich presents a unique introduction to the concept of jurisliterature. Highlighting how lawyers have been extraordinarily productive of literary, artistic and political works, Goodrich explores the diversity and imagination of the law and literature tradition. Jurisliterature, he argues, is the source of legal invention and the sign of novelty in judgments.
Author : Drew D. Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441119299
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book London's Shadows written by Drew D. Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1888 London was the capital of the most powerful empire the world had ever known, and the largest city in Europe. In the west a new city was growing, populated by the middle classes, the epitome of 'Victorian values'. Across the city the situation was very different. The East End of London had long been considered a nether world, a dark and dangerous region outside the symbolic 'walls' of the original City. Using the Whitechapel murders of Jack the Ripper as a focal point, this book explores prostitution, poverty, revolutionary politics, immigration, the creation of a criminal underclass and the development of policing. It also considers how the sensationalist 'new journalism' took the news of the Ripper murders to all corners of the Empire and to the United States. This is an important book for those interested in the history of Victorian Britain.
