Peter Stubley: 4 books
Calendar of Crime
365 True Cases from British History
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
From Jack the Ripper to long-forgotten cases, a true crime for ever day of the yearMay 19, 1536: Anne Boleyn, charged with high treason, is beheaded at the Tower of London August 31, 1888: Mary Ann Nichols, the first victim of Jack the Ripper, is found murdered in Buck's Row December 18, 1914:...
by Peter Stubley
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Investigating the countless crimes that have bedeviled Islington throughout its history, this book explores the area’s transformation from idyllic village and middle-class pleasure ground, to unfashionable region of urban poverty, before its renaissance after the ravages of the Second World War....
1888
London Murders in the Year of the Ripper
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The other, forgotten, murders of that infamous year, including a mutilated corpse at Scotland Yard, deadly assault, and infanticidesIn 1888 Jack the Ripper made the headlines with a series of horrific murders that remain unsolved to this day. But most killers are not shadowy figures stalking the streets...
A Pauper's History of England
1,000 Years of Peasants, Beggars & Guttersnipes
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
A unique tour through British history—from the perspective of the peasants and the poverty-stricken.
The past is traditionally told from the viewpoint of kings and queens, politicians and pioneers. But what about the people struggling to survive at the very lowest levels of society?
A Pauper’s...