Desperate Women: Infanticide, Baby Farming, and Victorian True Crime in BritainVictorian Britain is often remembered as an age of morality and respectability. Yet behind this image lay a harsher reality for many women.An unmarried pregnancy could mean poverty, abandonment, and social ruin. With no welfare system, limited employment, and little support, some women were driven to desperate acts that shocked society and filled the courtrooms of nineteenth-cent...

REVIEWS"A momentous book about murder, madness and moving". Dominic Walsh Journalist"We challenge anyone reading this book to let out a triumphant cheer or shed a silent tear. Simply brilliant and a fitting end to a trilogy." Filey Bay Today MagazineBloody Yorkshire 3 is the last book in the trilogy.Volume one gave us a gruesome sense of the gaols and their conditions. We learnt to experience the lives of the perpetrators until their inevitable executions. U...

Had you looked out on Scarborough Coast millions of years ago, you may have glimpsed a marine reptile such as a Plesiosaurus or an Ichthyosaurus chasing their prey. The rocks and cliffs, such as Castle Hill and Olivers Mount, were under the sea, waiting for the ice glaciers to thaw so they could rise above sea level and form the backbone of the town of Scarborough that we know today.Thorgils Skarthi, a Viking leader and poet and his brother Cormack (Cormack) are reputed to have fou...

'Bloody Yorkshire' is a compilation of thirteen of the vilest crimes, which stunned and gripped the nation. From the triple murders in Mirfield 1847, the ruthless slaying of innocent children John Gill in Bradford 1889, and Barbara Whitian Waterhouse in Horsforth, Leeds 1891. To the shocking death of William Swann brutally murdered by his wife and her lover in 1903. This carefully researched illustrated book will appeal to historians, and those interested in true crime.

Dr Edward William Pritchard was born in 1825, in Southsea, Hampshire, he was the son of a navy captain and came from a family with distinguished naval connections.On the surface, the doctor was well mannered and respectable. He was a kind and loving husband who adored his wife and family. Beneath that pleasant exterior, however, lurked a darkness that few would have guessed existed. He was a loathsome, arrogant man, a serial adulterer, and a sociopathic liar who would go down in hi...

This is the second book in the Bloody Yorkshire true-crime series, which is a terrifying compilation of some of the vilest crimes in Yorkshire's history which stunned and gripped the nation.Book two contains thirteen true stories from across the Yorkshire region, including Elizabeth Boardingham from Flamborough, who was burned at the stake for her involvement in the gruesome murder of her husband. The shocking story of Mary Bateman from Leeds, 'the Yorkshire witch and murderess' wh...

The American Revolutionary War produced one of the most famous and ferocious sea-battles of all time. This epic battle fought on the East Coast of Britain on 23rd September 1779, between two similar ships The Bonhomme Richard for the Americans with its captain the notorious John Paul Jones who had deserted his native Scotland to fight for the Americans in their new fledgling American Navy, against the English ship Serapis and its captain Richard Pearson. The sound of gunfire alerted many r...

Filey is known as 'The Unspoilt Hidden Gem of The Yorkshire Coast' with its glorious wide golden beach, elegant Victorian houses and well-kept gardens, but what were Filey's origins? Unlike the neighbouring town of Scarborough, Filey was mentioned in the Domesday Book 'as a very small village occupied by less than fifty people, and that Filey was worth a reasonable income, with access to good quality timber which was ideal for construction.' So, were these people Filey's oldest residents? ...

How do we transform American Culture through our religious convictions?Discover here the compelling stories of thirteen pioneers for social justice who engaged in peaceful protest and gave voice to the marginalized, working courageously out of their religious convictions to transform American culture. Their prophetic witness still speaks today.Comprising a variety of voices—Catholic and Protestant, gay and straight, men and women of different racia...