History Press: 2525 books
by Margaret Drinkall
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
This fascinating volume explores all aspects of life in that dread institution, the workhouse. From the staff who lived and worked here to the lunatics who were kept - sometimes unsuccessfully - in the medical wing, the babies and mothers whose lives began - and sometimes ended - in the maternity...
Assassination of the Prime Minister
John Bellingham and the Murder of Spencer Perceval
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The story of the only assassination of a British prime ministerIn a story of suspense, revenge, and personal tragedy, this history tells the interwoven stories of Perceval and Bellingham, detailing not just the events of May 1812, but also the two men's histories, and what led one to take the other's...
Abberline
The Man Who Hunted Jack the Ripper
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The name Frederick George Abberline has become synonymous with that of Jack the Ripper, and he has been portrayed as everything from an alcoholic, to a drug addict, a womanizer, and a bully. In reality, Abberline was a devoted husband and a dedicated policeman in a time of rampant corruption. Furthermore,...
by Thomas Toughill
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Thomas Toughill applies his detective skills to one of the greatest mysteries, the identity of Jack the Ripper. The result is a book which is as original as it is enthralling. Toughill suggests that Jack the Ripper was a former "friend" of Oscar Wilde and that Wilde dropped hints about this...
by Geoff Holder
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
The ultimate compendium of trivia miscellany about Scotland's unusual historyTake a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed look at the most frivolous, fantastic, or simply strange information that there is to tell about Scotland. Here we find out about unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants,...
Polly
Memories of an East End Girl
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Born in 1911 into a close-knit family, Mary Rebecca Chambers spent her formative years in the heart of the East End, in a truly multicultural community. This vivid account of life is told with passion and humor and is full of stories of the special community atmosphere that was London’s East End...
Bats in the Larder
Memories of a 1970s Childhood by the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
When 11-year-old Jeremy Wells moved home with his family from a bustling London suburb to the Sussex coast, he was scarcely prepared for the weird and wonderful world he would encounter. Here was a place in which goats used public transport, buses waited for people, trains didn't fit the stations...
by Pamela Russell
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
A follow-up to the author’s successful Liverpool’s Children in the Second World War. Reminiscences from people growing up in the 1950s. More than 50 previously unseen images of home life, school days, and playtime. Full of the warmth and excitement of growing up in the 1950s, awakening nostalgia...
Truly Criminal
A Crime Writers' Association Anthology of True Crime
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Real life crimes, famous and forgotten, re-examined by leading crime writersA superb collection of brand new and original essays about famous and obscure real life crimes, Truly Criminal showcases a group of highly regarded, award-winning writers who all share a special passion for crime. Among these...
by Geoffrey Howse
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
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...
by Delia Davin
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Mao Zedong—first chairman of the People’s Republic of China, one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, and the architect of the Cultural Revolution—was active in Chinese politics for most of his 82 years, and became one of the most important revolutionary figures in the 20th century....
East End Murders
From Jack the Ripper to Ronnie Kray
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
As well as the murders of Jack the Ripper—perhaps the most infamous in history—nine other cases are investigated in detail: the still mysterious Ratcliffe Highway Murders of 1811; Henry Wainwright, who dismembered his mistress and rolled up her remains in a carpet in 1874; Israel Lipski, whose...
Murderers' Row
An International Murderers' Who's Who
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
Criminologist Robin Odell has complied this gruesome gallery of cases from all over the world, revealing the growth in serial slayings, contract killings and middle-class murders and investigating what motivates people to commit the ultimate crime. As well as gangsters and ordinary felons, "Murder:...
Murder by Numbers
Fascinating Figures behind the World’s Worst Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
What is the connection between the number 13 and Jack the Ripper? Why was the number 18 crucial in catching Acid Bath murderer John George Haigh? And what is so puzzling about the number 340 in the chilling case of the Zodiac killer? The answers to all these questions and many more are revealed in...