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  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Jersey

    by Glynis Cooper ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    In a superb companion volume to her best-selling book Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Guernsey, Glynis Cooper turns her attention to the dark side of the past in Jersey. And there is no shortage of shocking stories to tell—crimes of passion and despair, cases of murder, deceit and pure malice, opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of wickedness that are as disturbing today as ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • City of Manchester in the Great War

    by Glynis Cooper ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    The war touched almost every aspect of life on the Home Front, and those who were left behind suffered terribly. This book meticulously explores the problems, hardships and grief faced by Manchesters people and takes a detailed look the unfortunate areas that were hit the hardest.Throughout Britain, industry declined and wages suffered; prices of food and fuel rose sharply; essential foodstuffs ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Glossop in the Great War

    by Glynis Cooper ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    A new book on Glossop during World War I focuses on the economic and social conditions, problems and hardships of those left at home in England played out against a background of military action on the Western Front, in Turkey, Egypt and Palestine. It chronicles the difficulties, hardships and restrictions of daily life for civilians; the morale of the town year by year as the War dragged on; the ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Century of Female Revolution

    From Peterloo to Parliament

    by Glynis Cooper ...
    This dramatic social history follows the struggle for women's rights in England from the Industrial Revolution to the Suffragist victory after WWI.The 100 years from 1819-1919 saw remarkable change for women in England. From the early nineteenth century, when women were not even considered 'persons' under the law, they achieved full legal rights and status. The doors of education and employment ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Struggle and Suffrage in Manchester

    Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality

    by Glynis Cooper ...
    Series series Struggle and Suffrage
    ‘Women are not persons.’ That was the ruling of the Court of Appeal when Gwynneth Bebb challenged the Law Society to allow her to take exams and become a solicitor. The case was dismissed because only ‘persons’ (i.e. males) could become members of the Law Society and it proved the depth of misogyny within the Establishment at that time.'Suffrage and Struggle in Manchester’ celebrates the struggle ... Read more

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  • Bury St Edmunds in the Great War

    by Glynis Cooper ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    The Great War came as a shock to the citizens of Bury St Edmunds, a rural Suffolk town. One day they were celebrating a beautiful, hot August bank holiday at a large well-attended country fte; the next they were plunged into the deadliest war in history. Men from the Suffolk Regiment, who were based in the towns barracks, marched off to war and fought valiantly in Flanders, France and Gallipoli. ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who Stole the Secret to the Industrial Revolution?

    The Real Story Behind Richard Arkwright & the Water Frame

    by Glynis Cooper ...
    English schoolchildren are taught that Sir Richard Arkwright 'invented the water-frame and was the father of the Industrial Revolution and the factory system.' That is simply not true. The water-powered spinning frame and the 'modern factory system' were pioneered in Italy over 300 years before Richard Arkwright was born. This book tells the story of how the Industrial Revolution in textile ... Read more

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  • Stockport in the Great War

    by Glynis Cooper ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    Interest in the theft of cucumbers initially took precedence over news that war had been declared, but Stockport rallied quickly. Wakes week was cancelled, the local 6th Battalion of the Cheshires went to the Front and the town transformed half of its schools into much-needed military hospitals. Admirably, the remaining schools coped with double the number of children but education suffered little ... Read more

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  • Derbyshire at War 1939–45

    by Glynis Cooper ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in World War Two
    Few could believe that within twenty years of the war to end all wars being won the world was once again at war. Veterans of the Great War feared going through the same thing again and, even worse, many knew that this time their children would also be involved in the fighting. What had all the sacrifice been about?Derbyshire, its towns and village, were badly hit by the Great War with many lives ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cambridgeshire at War 1939–45

    by Glynis Cooper ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in World War Two
    Few could believe that within twenty years of the war to end all wars being won the world was once again at war. Veterans of the Great War feared going through the same thing again and, even worse, many knew that this time their children would also be involved in the fighting. What had all the sacrifice been about?Cambridgeshire, the city of Cambridge and the University of Cambridge were badly hit ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Bolton

    by Glynis Cooper ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    Thirty-two true crime stories from the history of the English town, from the sixteenth century to the early twentiethcentury.Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Bolton takes the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime, meeting villains of all sorts along the way. There is no shortage of harrowing incidents of evil to recount from the town's early industrial beginnings to its ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Guernsey

    by Glynis Cooper ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    A comprehensive history of the Channel Island's infamous deadly and disturbing crimes.The twin fascinations of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Guernsey, the chill is brought close to home as each chapter investigates the darker side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit and pure malice. From crimes of passion to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus