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Author : Graham Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781853060441
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Smuggling in the Bristol Channel 1700-1850 written by Graham Smith and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Waugh
Publisher : Countryside Books (GB)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Smuggling in Devon and Cornwall 1700-1850 written by Mary Waugh and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 1991 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Leslie Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Some pirates, smugglers & wrecks in the Bristol channel written by A. Leslie Evans and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William B. Stephens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317016203
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Seventeenth-Century Customs Service Surveyed written by William B. Stephens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1682, William Culliford, a loyal and experienced officer in the King's customs service, began an extraordinary journey under Treasury orders to investigate the integrity and efficiency of the customs establishments of southwest England and south Wales as part of a drive to maximize the Crown's income from customs duties (on which it relied for much of its revenue). Starting at Bristol, Culliford eventually completed this daunting task in Cornwall over two years later in the spring of 1684. His report on each of the ports he inspected (the primary source for this book) revealed widespread smuggling and fraud in the context of a customs service both lacking in efficiency and riddled with corruption. The book documents the varied frauds and wide-ranging abuses uncovered and their facilitation by customs officers only too ready to collude with smugglers, dishonest merchants and seamen and to accept bribes to ignore tax evasion. It describes, too, Culliford's assessment of the administrative practices of each port inspected and his judgment on the levels of probity and efficiency of individual officers, detailing his recommendations for procedural improvements and the treatment of the corrupt and incompetent and, incidentally, of those suspected of political and religious dissent. Additionally, the book presents a body of statistical data on the customs revenue actually collected at individual ports in the 1670s and 1680s and surveys the extent and nature of the maritime trade of the ports Culliford examined. It thus not only throws light on the history of the customs service, but provides a rare insight into the interactions of economic, social and political issues in the later seventeenth century, and makes a valuable contribution to the particular histories of the ports and maritime districts visited by this energetic and tenacious investigator.
Author : Mike Gerrard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493084429
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Behind Bars written by Mike Gerrard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind Bars is filled with stories both ancient and urgent of what happens when alcohol meets crime, from illicit stills in the Scottish Highlands to moonshine in the USA, rum smuggled by Caribbean pirates to the roaring times of Prohibition, current-day gangs selling millions of dollars’ worth of fake Bordeaux, and the often-unsolved cases of people walking into a liquor store, stealing whiskey bottles worth tens of thousands of dollars, and walking out, never to be seen again. Award-winning travel and drinks writer Mike Gerrard takes readers on a centuries-long journey highlighting the most bizarre – and expensive – alcohol-related crimes all while revealing the inside world of spirits, how they have been distilled, legislated, imbibed, and infused into our culture for hundreds of years. Featuring colorful tangents and detailed appendices, Behind Bars will whet the whistle of any curious reader. Spanning the stories of ancient wine swindlers in Pompeii to the modern radiocarbon-dating techniques used by today’s cutting-edge scientists to investigate suspect bottles of expensive alcohol, from million-dollar robberies of wine cellars buried deep underground to whiskey rings surrounding the highest reaches of the Presidency, Gerrard smartly and swiftly reveals that the link between alcohol and crime is a never-ending story.
Author : Carl Griffin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137373016
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700-1850 written by Carl Griffin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural workers in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England were not passive victims in the face of rapid social change. Carl J. Griffin shows that they deployed an extensive range of resistances to defend their livelihoods and communities. Locating protest in the wider contexts of work, poverty and landscape change, this new text offers the first critical overview of this growing area of study.
Author : Geoff Brookes
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750954981
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Welsh History: Strange but True written by Geoff Brookes and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir John Pryce of Newtown Hall died in 1761. He kept the embalmed bodies of his first two wives on either side of his bed – until his third wife insisted that they were removed. In 1856 Ronald Rhys from the Vale of Neath disappeared for a week after seeing a strange light in a field and hearing a loud noise. He remembered being examined by small creatures who took a sample of his blood. Oh yes, and America is named after a Welshman and the Holy Grail is kept in a bank vault in West Wales... This book contains hundreds of 'strange but true' facts and anecdotes about Welsh history. Arranged into a miniature history of Wales, and with bizarre and hilarious true tales for every era, it will interest and delight readers everywhere.
Author : J.D. Davies
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752494104
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Britannia's Dragon written by J.D. Davies and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive research, The Naval History of Wales tells a compelling story that spans nearly 2,000 years, from the Romans to the present. Many Welsh men and women have served in the Royal Navy and the navies of other countries. Welshmen played major parts in voyages of exploration, in the navy's suppression of the slave trade, and in naval warfare from the Viking era to the Spanish Armada, in the American Civil War, both world wars and the Falklands War. Comprehensive, enlightening, and provocative, The Naval History of Wales also explodes many myths about Welsh history, naval historian J.D. Davies arguing that most Welshmen in the sailing navy were volunteers and that, relative to the size of national populations, proportionately more Welsh seamen than English fought at Trafalgar. Written in vivid detail, this volume is one that no maritime or Welsh historian can do without.
Author : David W. Howell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rural Poor in Eighteenth-century Wales written by David W. Howell and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses rural and social conditions of the poor in eighteenth-century Wales.
Author : Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society written by Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Glen O'Hara
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350306959
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Britain and the Sea written by Glen O'Hara and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O'Hara presents the first general history of Britons' relationship with the surrounding oceans from 1600 to the present day. This all-encompassing account covers individual seafarers, ship-borne migration, warfare and the maritime economy, as well as the British people's maritime ideas and self perception throughout the centuries.
Author : Center for the Study of Democracy
Publisher : Center for the Study of Democracy
ISBN 13 : 9544772340
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Financing of Organised Crime written by Center for the Study of Democracy and published by Center for the Study of Democracy. This book was released on 2015 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report Financing of Organised Crime contributes to a better understanding of the financial aspects of organised crime. The analysis explores topics such as the sources and mechanisms for financing organised crime, settlement of payments, access to financing in critical moments, costs of business and the management of profits. Drawing on the results of the analysis, the report also suggests possible new approaches to tackling organised crime.
Author : Geoffrey Morley
Publisher : Countryside Books (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Smuggling in Hampshire and Dorset, 1700-1850 written by Geoffrey Morley and published by Countryside Books (UK). This book was released on 1983 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. F. Langham
Publisher : Sutton Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Island of Lundy written by A. F. Langham and published by Sutton Publishing Limited. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local history of Lundy
Author : David J. V. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Crime in Nineteenth-century Wales written by David J. V. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Obin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780948646157
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (461 download)
Download or read book Bibliography of Nautical Books written by Alan Obin and published by . This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 15th annual edition of the Bibliography of Nautical Books, a reference guide to over 14,000 nautical publications. It deals specifically with the year 2000.
Author : Leonard George Carr Laughton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Mariner's Mirror written by Leonard George Carr Laughton and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
