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  • Sheffield's Most Notorious Gangs

    British veterans of the Great War turn to organized crime in this history of rival street gangs and their reign of terror in the 1920's.When the returning heroes of the First World War were forgotten by their country, they had no choice but to fight again, this time for their own survival. Reduced to motley neighborhood regiments, they traded their rifles for razors and butcher's knives. The enemy ... Read more

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  • Digging in the Dark

    A History of the Yorkshire Resurrectionists

    Progress can be unstoppable at times, and not even death can prevent the desire for knowledge. A dark trade has long existed to provide fuel for the fires of research, a trade which is viewed by many as the most despicable occupation of all.The resurrection men of Yorkshire came from all walks of life, and employed a myriad of macabre methods to raise their defenseless prey from beneath the ... Read more

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  • Charlie Peace

    Murder, Mayhem and the Master of Disguise

    The true crimes of one of nineteenth century England's most notorious thieves and killers, whose exploits still capture the public's imagination.Once immortalized in Madame Tussauds's Chamber of Horrors, and brought to life in two silent films, his gnarled and prematurely aged features would be the last image his victims ever saw, yet ironically, he was known by the name of Peace. A grotesque ... Read more

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  • A Century of Female Revolution

    From Peterloo to Parliament

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    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

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  • The Duke of Monmouth

    Life and Rebellion

    by Laura Brennan ...
    He was the illegitimate son of a king, a gallant and brave military hero, charming, handsome and well loved both within the court and with women; James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, had the life many would have envied in the seventeenth century.Monmouth lived in an age that was on the cusp of modernity. He lived through some of the biggest events and scandals of seventeenth century British history, ... Read more

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  • Charles I's Executioners

    Civil War, Regicide & the Republic

    by James Hobson ...
    This biographical history of the English Civil War profiles the lives and ultimate fates of the nearly 60 men who sentenced their king to death.On January 30th, 1649, King Charles I was executed on a scaffold outside the Banqueting House of Whitehall. The parliamentarian High Court of Justice declared him guilty of treason, disregarding the Divine Right of Kings. Fifty-nine commissioners signed ... Read more

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  • Churchill's Hellraisers

    The Thrilling Secret WW2 Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress

    by Damien Lewis ...
    From award-winning war reporter Damien Lewis, the untold story of the heroic hellraisers who stormed a Nazi fortress—in one of the most daring raids of World War II . . .Winter, 1944. Allied forces have liberated most of Axis-occupied Italy—with one crucial exception: the Nazi headquarters north of the Gothic Line. Heavily guarded and surrounded by rugged terrain, the mountain fortress is nearly ... Read more

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  • Spitfire Girl

    An extraordinary tale of courage in World War Two

    An extraordinary life in the shadows of war and a Century in the making.Diana Mackintosh came of age to the drone of sirens alerting the people of Malta to the arrival of relentless flights of belligerent German and Italian menace – the bombers she first imagined as a swarm of black flies, pests that stung and cursed her Mediterranean homeland. The three-year onslaught never took a day off; it was ... Read more

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  • Bodysnatchers

    Digging Up the Untold Stories of Britain's Resurrection Men

    by Suzie Lennox ...
    The grim history of England's bodysnatching trade: "Lennox's thorough exploration is riveting" (Naomi Clifford, author of The Disappearance of Maria Glenn).From the string of murders committed by Burke and Hare, a pair of ghouls who are still the stuff of pop culture legend, to the lesser-known but equally gruesome grave-robbing exploits of Henry Gillies, William Patrick, and Joseph Grainger, here ... Read more

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  • Librarian Tales

    Funny, Strange, and Inspiring Dispatches from the Stacks

    Published in cooperation with the American Library Association, an insider’s look at one of the most prevalent, yet commonly misunderstood institutions!Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly of librarian William Ottens’s experience working behind service desks and in the stacks of public libraries, most recently at the Lawrence Public Library in Kansas. In Librarian Tales, published in ... Read more

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  • Remarkable Journeys of the Second World War

    A Collection of Untold Stories

    Those who lived through the Second World War have many stories of bravery, sadness, horror, doubt and longing. Inspired by conversations with veterans following the publication of her grandfather's wartime memoir, Victoria Panton Bacon has gathered a moving collection of their experiences. Their recollections tell of a different time and reveal the courage, actions and sentiments of those whose ... Read more

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  • Bringing Down the Colonel

    A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington

    "[A] tantalizing and beautifully researched book . . . Anyone emboldened by the #MeToo movement to come forward owes a significant debt to Pollard." ―Karen Abbott, The Washington PostIn Bringing Down the Colonel, the journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women's rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her "ruined," ... Read more

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