Stephen Wade: 52 books
Tales from the Big House: Normanby Hall
400 years of its history and people
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Tales from the Big House: Normanby Hall tells the story of a place known perhaps today mainly as the home where Samantha Cameron grew up, but historically it has been the seat of the Sheffield family, whose most famous member was arguably the Duke of Buckingham in the seventeenth century. As with...
Aspects of Huddersfield 2
Discovering Local History 2
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
Aspects of Huddersfield, the first in the highly successful Aspects series to feature Huddersfield and district, contains a wealth of pinpoint detail of the history of the town.
The story of the coming of the "wireless" to Moorside Edge, which made Huddersfield the radio centre for Northern...
Jane Austen’s Aunt Behind Bars
Writers and their Criminal Relatives and Associates, 1700–1900
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
The collected essays explore the lives of several writers in Georgian and Victorian Britain, in terms of their knowledge and experience of prison life. This book focuses on the lives of the writers themselves, or on the prison stretches endured by their relatives or acquaintances. Some of these...
Air Raid Shelters of the Second World War
Family Stories of Survival in the Blitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
This book features the design, creation and use of air raid shelters, including interviews with people who used them during the Second World War. The different types of bunkers/air raid shelters (both public and in people’s gardens) are covered and the strength and weakness of their designs discussed,...
by Stephen Wade
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Doncaster has world-wide fame as a railway town. For many years the name was associated with engineering, transport and of course coal. But there is a darker aspect to its history. The sinister side is explored through the research and writing of an experienced crime historian. Sensational tales have...
Britain's Most Notorious Prisoners
Victorian to Present-Day Cases
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
From Oscar Wilde to the Kray brothers—a unique history of the lives and crimes of the United Kingdom’s most famous, and infamous, inmates.
Their names can chill the blood of true-crime aficionados: Peter Sutcliffe, aka The Yorkshire Ripper; child-torturer Ian Brady; cannibal Dennis Nilsen;...
by Stephen Wade
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Wormwood Scrubs is Britain’s most ‘media-soaked’ prison. Its celebrity inmates have provided the tabloids with many good stories, from Rolling Stone Keith Richards - banged up for drugs offences - to notorious spy George Blake, whose escape enthralled the country. It has entertained the Master...
by Stephen Wade
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2004
Calderdale has gone down in the annals of crime in England as the birthplace of Christie of Rillington Place, and as the haunt of the Yorkshire Ripper. But there is much more in the criminal history of the Halifax area to interest the reader with a taste for true crime. As a town with a shifting population...
The Girl Who Lived on Air
The Mystery of Sarah Jacob: The Welsh Fasting Girl
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Though not the first anorexic, Sarah Jacob, “the Welsh fasting girl,” was arguably the first to cause a national uproar when she dominated the press in 1869, becoming something of a celebrity. Despite a team of nurses from Guy’s Hospital stationed at her home in Lletherneuadd, Sarah died, and...
by Stephen Wade
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Yorkshire Murders & Misdemeanours invites the reader to take a look at the dark side of life. This gruesome collection of historical murders and misdemeanours vividly brings to life a selection of true crimes; crimes which took place on the streets, on public transport, in homes, pubs, prisons,...
No More Soldiering
Conscientious Objectors of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
The enduring legacy of those who said ‘No’. January 2016 marks the centenary of the Military Service Act, which brought in conscription after the large-scale loss of manpower in the major campaigns of the Western Front. The Act was to create a sustained and dramatic confrontation between the military...
by Stephen Wade
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Hanged at Lincoln gathers together the stories of criminals hanged at both Lincoln Castle Prison and HMP Lincoln on Greetwell Road between 1716 and 1961. The condemned featured here range from coiners and forgers to thieves, highwaymen, and poisoners. Among the infamous murderers executed at Lincoln...
The Justice Women
The Female Presence in the Criminal Justice System 1800-1970
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The first policewomen were established during the Great War, but with no powers of arrest; the first women lawyers did not practise until the early twentieth century, and despite the fact that women worked as matrons in Victorian prisons, there were few professional women working as prison officers...
Jewish American Literature since 1945
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.