The queen who walked on fire! Weird legends of St Swithin explored! The Vikings are coming! Death and destruction in ancient Winchester! Sufferings she could not describe': the amazing life and dolorous death of Miss Jane Austen! Fed to the dogs! Winchester's most gruesome executions! The secret histories of Winchester's most famous buildings revealed! Winchester has one of the darkest and most fascinating histories on record – more than 2,000 years of death, disease and d...

Child Protection and Child Welfare draws on the knowledge of child protection experts and social care professionals to provide an authoritative international overview of child protection strategy and policy.Devoting particular attention to the role played by culture in determining child welfare issues and child protection responses, this book illustrates the impact of both long-term influences, such as the legacy of the caste system in India, and more recent global events, such as ...

Everyone needs a safe place…Haunted by a past trauma, Cathy yearns for sanctuary away from city life. She finds it with her boyfriend Alfie, at Blacksheep Farm, a haven in the Peaks of Derbyshire.But their peace is blighted by Bertha, the cold-hearted matriarch of Alfie’s family, who is hell-bent on keeping control of the farm—and her children.When a collection of hidden portraits is found by Alfie, Cathy is drawn to their mysterious beauty and emba...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems, FroCoS 2017, held in Brasília, Bazil, in September 2017.The 17 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: description and temporal logics, decision procedures, decidability and verification, SAT, SMT and automated theorem proving, term rewriting, and properties and combinations of l...