David Brandon: 44 books

Book cover of Curiosities of York
by Ed Brandon, David Brandon
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011

York, founded by the Romans as Eboracum, the capital of Britannia Inferior, is considered one of Europe's best-loved cities. It boasts a wealth of ancient buildings and historic associations. But although the city has a number of attractions of terrific significance, Curiosities of York concentrates...
Book cover of Tyburn

Tyburn

London's Fatal Tree

by Alan Brooke, David Brandon
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005

"Tyburn" is synonymous with the idea of execution—over 50,000 people died there between the 12th century and 1783. Among those who met their end at Tyburn were William Wallace, the Scottish patriot; Perkin Warbeck, who claimed to be one of the Princes in the Tower; and the hated Jonathan...
Book cover of East Anglian Coast
by David Brandon
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012

The East Anglian Coast is a place of diversity: it has sandy beaches, shingle and pebble beaches and it has mud. There are crumbling cliffs, striped cliffs and places where sea and sand seem simply to run into each other. It has towns as different as workaday King's Lynn, Lowestoft or Harwich. David...
Book cover of Curiosities of London

Curiosities of London

Historical Walks Around the Capital

by David Brandon, Alan Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015

Curiosities of London contains an informative and entertaining selection of walks around well-known and some less-visited parts of London, revealing oddities, bizarre connections and strange stories from the past which echo through the city streets. Brandon and Brooke reveal the urban myths that abound,...
Book cover of Life in a 17th Century Coffee Shop
by David Brandon
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011

Looks at what it was really like in the first cafes, as coffee drinking became more popular. This book also deals with such questions as: what else did the shops sell? How did coffee shop life influence politics, the media and everyday life? We have all seen the hilarious depiction of Mrs Miggins'...
Book cover of Murders & Misdemeanours in The West End of London 1800-1850
by Alan Brooke, David Brandon
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009

A look at the dark side of life, Victorian-style, when nothing was quite as it seemed and a public execution could be an entertaining family day out. Murderers, poachers, thieves, pickpockets and vagabonds all went about their business with impunity. Crime took place on the streets, on public transport,...
Book cover of Shadows in the Steam

Shadows in the Steam

The Haunted Railways of Britain

by David Brandon, Alan Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010

A collection of spine-chilling true-life tales of paranormal activity across Britain's railways, based on hundreds of first person and historical accounts Some of the strange and unexplained hauntings across Britain's railway network that are collected here include signals and messages sent from empty...
Book cover of Bankside

Bankside

London's Original District of Sin

by David Brandon, Alan Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011

On the south bank of the Thames and demarcated by Blackfriars and Tower Bridges lies the district known as Bankside, the Borough and Southwark. Its origin was in a Roman settlement nestling around the southern end of London Bridge, until the eighteenth century the only bridge across the Thames in...
Book cover of London: City of the Dead
by David Brandon, Alan Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008

A groundbreaking account of London’s relationship with death, this book covers the afterlife, execution, bodysnatching, murder, fatal disease, spiritualism, bizarre deaths, and cemeteries. Taking the reader from Roman London to the "glorious dead" of World War I, this is the first systematic...
Book cover of Haunted London Underground
by David Brandon, Alan Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009

London’s Underground is associated with a multitude of ghostly stories and sightings. Particular stations and abandoned lines, many of which are in close proximity to burial sites from centuries ago, have given rise to unexplained events. This chilling book reveals well-known and hitherto unpublished...
Book cover of Olde London Punishments
by David Brandon, Alan Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010

The authors of London: City of the Dead and London: The Executioners City expand their history of grim, ancient punishments into the realm of the "social" punishments used in workhouses, churches, and schools All manner of vile punishments from London's long and bloody history are collected...
Book cover of Stand and Deliver!

Stand and Deliver!

A History of Highway Robbery

by David Brandon
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011

Why is the highwayman largely perceived as a romantic, glamorous, and gallant figure? How is it that men who were really nothing more than bandits, who were often gratuitously violent, sometimes murderers and rapists as well, have become the swashbuckling heroes of history? To put their roles in context,...
Book cover of London and the Victorian Railway
by David Brandon
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010

London owes its origins to being a suitable site for settlement close to what was then the lowest bridging point of the Thames. There have been many factors that have caused it to become such a vast, diverse and dynamic organism. Transport and the railways in particular have played a vital part in...
Book cover of Blood on the Tracks

Blood on the Tracks

A History of Railway Crime in Britain

by David Brandon, Alan Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010

With their enthusiasm for, and knowledge of, Britain's railways, this book perfectly brings together the authors' interests in social history and the history of crime, both subjects on which they have a number of published titles to their credit, ensuring that the reader will find this title an enthralling read.
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