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  • Yorkshire's Murderous Women

    Two Centuries of Killings

    de Stephen Wade ...
    Historical accounts of Englishwomen who have killed, their varying motives, and their final fates.Yorkshire history has its share of nasty and brutal murders, and the majority of these killers have been men. Statistics show that most homicides are men. But the records over the centuries have tales of murderous women too. Stephen Wade has investigated records across England to find stories of women ... Leer más

    $107 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Wharncliffe A–Z of Yorkshire Murder

    de Stephen Wade ...
    The history of the old county of Yorkshire has been concerned with the great and the good, the ambitious and the downright unscrupulous. Its broad acres has had more than its fair share of highprofile murders, especially though not exclusively in its burgeoning urban centres. Now there is a reference work to bring together most of the principal murders, from the mid-eighteenth century when Dick ... Leer más

    $10 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $164 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Jane Austens Aunt Behind Bars

    Writers and their Criminal Relatives and Associates, 17001900

    de Stephen Wade ...
    Writers between 1700 and 1900 were always likely to see the inside of British prisons if their work had any kind of radical element, or anything that could be considered libellous or seditious. Even the great and successful novelists, poets and journalists of those years fell foul of the law, or perhaps knew others who did so.‘Jane Austen’s Aunt Behind Bars: Writers and Their Criminal Relatives ... Leer más

    $150 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

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

    The Yorkshire Coast & Holderness

    de Stephen Wade ...
    Once there was a Roman settlement on what is now Filey Brig. In Holderness, a prosperous town called Ravenser saw kings and princes on its soil, and its progress threatened the good people of Grimsby. But the Romans and the Ravenser folk are long gone, as are their streets and buildings sunk beneath the hungry waves of what was once the German Ocean.Lost to the Sea: The Yorkshire Coast & ... Leer más

    $164 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Our Common Life

    Folksong from the Front Porch to the Concert Hall

    de Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    “I can’t teach you, but I can show you.” With these words, Kentucky balladeer Doc Hopkins shared his musical knowledge with a willing student, summoning an independent streak deeply embedded in the American character. His words capture the informal creativity and colloquial practice that marks folk tradition as it extends from the countryside to the city and back again.Stephen Wade recounts ... 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

    $197 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Halifax

    de Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    Calderdale has gone down in the annals of crime in England as the birthplace of Christie of Rillington Place, and as the haunt of the Yorkshire Ripper. But there is much more in the criminal history of the Halifax area to interest the reader with a taste for true crime. As a town with a shifting population of labour for the new mills of the Industrial Revolution, Halifax in the nineteenth century ... Leer más

    $107 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In Dublin

    de Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    Tory gangs, madmen, war criminals, frauds, anarchists, duelists, kidnappers, and more scandal-makers throughout four centuries of Irish history.Dublin is a wonderful, energetic cultural center—the pride of Irish achievements in architecture, arts, and literature. But it is also a city of paradoxes and conflicts—and a long, fascinating history of crime.Stephen Wade now reveals Dublin's "strange ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Lincolnshire Murders

    de Stephen Wade ...
    Series series True Crime History
    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

    $212 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Doncaster

    de Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    Doncaster has world-wide fame as a railway town. For many years the name was associated with engineering, transport and of course coal. But there is a darker aspect to its history. The sinister side is explored through the research and writing of an experienced crime historian. Sensational tales have been uncovered concerning a variety of dark deeds, including a cloak-and-dagger meeting in an ... Leer más

    $10 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Victorian Somebody

    The Life of George Grossmith

    de Stephen Wade ...
    In the 1880s, George Grossmith was the dazzling comic star of Gilbert and Sullivan’s immensely popular Savoy operas. London theatregoers waited excitedly for the next production, knowing that George would be cast in the lead role of the ‘patter man’. He was also many other things in his life, including Bow Street court reporter, piano entertainer for high society, and in the 1890s, with his ... Leer más

    $132 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus