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  • Lost to the Sea, Britain's Vanished Coastal Communities

    Norfolk and Suffolk

    de Stephen Wade ...
    Lost to the Sea: Norfolk & Suffolk relates the stories of how the human communities along the coast of these counties maintained their struggle with the sea. From very early Neolithic times, when global changes created the Continental Shelf and raised the cliffs along Britain's eastern shorelines, through Roman and medieval times, the first villages and towns were gradually established, only to be ... Leer más

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  • A Dictionary of True Crime

    A Reference Guide to the Dark and Curious Crimes of British History

    de Stephen Wade ...
    A comprehensive A-Z guide to notorious and lesser-known extreme crimes, criminals, and legal cases from the 17th century to today.A Dictionary of True Crime is a guide to the most compelling cases of extreme and violent crime in the writing files, from the 17th century to present day. Amongst notorious criminals like Jack the Ripper and the Moors Murderers, lesser-known but provoking cases which ... Leer más

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  • Tracing Your Criminal Ancestors

    A Guide for Family Historians

    de Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    A comprehensive introduction to researching British criminal history with information on national and local archives that family historians can use.Did you have a criminal in the family, an ancestor who was caught on the wrong side of the law? If you have ever had any suspicions about the illicit activities of your relatives, or are fascinated by the history of crime and punishment, this is the ... Leer más

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  • Tracing Your Prisoner Ancestors

    A Guide for Family Historians

    de Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    An "excellent book . . . a great introduction to legal terms, offences, procedures, sentences, and much more besides" trom the author of Writing True Crime (Ripperologist).The history of the British prison system only had systematic records from the middle of the nineteenth century. Before that, material on prisoners in local jails and houses of correction was patchy and minimal. In more recent ... Leer más

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  • The Justice Women

    The Female Presence in the Criminal Justice System 1800-1970

    de Stephen Wade ...
    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 until the 1920s. The Justice Women traces the social history of the women working in courts, prisons ... Leer más

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  • Air Raid Shelters of the Second World War

    Family Stories of Survival in the Blitz

    de Stephen Wade ...
    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 peoples gardens) are covered and the strength and weakness of their designs discussed, using original designs and primary material. The nostalgia/social history of the book covers ... Leer más

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  • Tales from the Big House: Normanby Hall

    400 Years of Its History and People

    de Stephen Wade ...
    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 most country houses, the Hall was used as a military hospital in the Great War, and in the Second ... Leer más

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  • Lincolnshire Murders

    de Stephen Wade ...
    Series series
    The murder cases in this book are a mixture of classic narratives of jealousy, elimination and passion, now retold from new perspectives and with more research. The author also includes some little-known mysteries: three unsolved homicides from across the county, including the killing of the 'Barton recluse' and the enigmatic death of a young farmer in Gedney in which the dead man's dog appeared ... Leer más

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  • Notorious Prisons of the World

    de Stephen Wade ...
    A captivating history of doing time throughout the centuries: from England's medieval dungeons to America's supermax detention facilities.The first prisons were castle hellholes, places of neglect, oblivion, and slow death. Every civilization has had its dissenters, deviants, and political offenders, and so prisons became essential to the retention of power. As the centuries passed, and prisons ... Leer más

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  • Tracing Your Police Ancestors

    A Guide for Family Historians

    de Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    Tracing Your Police Ancestors will help you locate and research officers who served in any of the police forces of England and Wales from the creation of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of how or where to look for such information, Stephen Wade explains and describes the various archives and records and provides a discussion of ... Leer más

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  • Grimsby in the Great War

    de Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    Grimsby in the Great War is a detailed account of how the experience of war impacted on the seaside town of Grimsby from the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, to the long-awaited peace of 1918.Grimsby and Cleethorpes were among the most vulnerable and exposed British towns in August 1914 when the Great War broke out. Situated on the North Sea, and facing the German Baltic fleet, their vessels ... Leer más

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  • Britain's Most Notorious Hangmen

    de Stephen Wade ...
    A breathtaking history of Britain's executioners—from the seventeenth court of King Charles II to the UK's last official hangman of the twentieth century.In 1663, Jack Ketch delighted in his profession and gained notoriety not only because of those he executed—dukes and lords—but for how often he botched the job. Centuries later, in 1965, after nearly six hundred trips to the gallows, Albert ... Leer más

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