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  • A Date with the Hangman

    A History of Capital Punishment in Britain

    by Gary Dobbs ...
    A true-crime history of 20th-century, British judicial hangings from 1900 to 1964, and a look at the overall history of executions in Great Britain.It is a sobering thought that until the closing years of the twentieth century, Britain's courts were technically able to impose the death penalty for several offenses, both civil and military. Although the last judicial hangings took place in 1964, ... Read more

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  • Dark Valleys

    Foul Deeds Among the South Wales Valleys 1845–2016

    by Gary Dobbs ...
    Dark Valleys collects together more than a century of murders that took place in and around the valleys of South Wales. These horrific crimes shocked not only Wales, but also made national headlines. Although treated with compassion and sensitivity by the Welsh author and crime historian Gary M. Dobbs, these true stories are often gruesome and harrowing, with no details spared in chronicling what ... Read more

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  • A Dark History of Whisky

    by Gary Dobbs ...
    "Mystery and true crime writer Dobbs offers a delightful, comprehensive overview of the turbulent legacy of whiskey and whisky, starting with the scoop on that pesky e... an entertaining and edifying look at the mayhem inspired by 'the wonderful golden liquid.'" — Publishers WeeklyThe book you hold in your hands is not a standard whisky book. Of course, it does contain information that can be ... Read more

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  • Cardiff and the Valleys at War, 1939–45

    by Gary Dobbs ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in World War Two
    When Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, Cardiff and its surroundings, like every other city, town, hamlet and village in the country, sent forth large numbers of young men to fight against the oppression of Hitler and the Nazis. This is a story not only of the war itself, but of the way war affected those far away from the battlefields, and of how a nation stood together in the ... Read more

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  • Cardiff & the Valleys in the Great War

    by Gary Dobbs ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    Looks at the Cardiff Pals and other local regiments who fought in the Great War and how the experience of war impacted on the area, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German Kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Cardiff were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. An important place for ... Read more

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  • 1888

    London Murders in the Year of the Ripper

    by Peter Stubley ...
    In 1888 Jack the Ripper made the headlines with a series of horrific murders that remain unsolved to this day. But most killers are not shadowy figures stalking the streets with a lust for blood. Many are ordinary citizens driven to the ultimate crime by circumstance, a fit of anger or a desire for revenge. Their crimes, overshadowed by the few, sensational cases, are ignored, forgotten or written ... Read more

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  • British Serial Killers

    by Nigel Wier ...
    The book is about British serial killers from the 19th century all the way to the present day. I have written the book to show the readers what a serial killer is and why he is so different from any other killers. In Britain it is estimated that there are between 70 and 80 known serial killers and the book will cover about 75% of them. Fortunately for us most serial killers are arrested and ... Read more

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  • The Great Train Robbery

    The Untold Story from the Closed Investigation Files

    by Andrew Cook ...
    The Great Train Robbery of 1963 is one of the most infamous crimes in British history. The bulk of the money stolen (equivalent to over £40 million today) has never been recovered, and there has not been a single year since 1963 when one aspect of the crime or its participants has not been featured in the media. Despite the wealth and extent of this coverage, a host of questions have remained ... Read more

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  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Liverpool

    by Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    The disturbing, criminal history of Britain's "World Capital City of Pop"—home of murderers, thieves, bodysnatchers . . . and The Beatles.The city of Liverpool, England, was like every other city energized by the Victorian boon in industry and trade. It is best known today as the home of the British Invasion and music that changed the world. But Liverpool's history has a less harmonious side, and ... Read more

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  • Hanged in Lancashire

    by Martin Baggoley ...
    "A detailed account of crime and capital punishment . . . from the days of the 1700s when felons were publically hanged outside the walls of Lancaster Castle." —Friends of Real LancashireThis account of executions in Lancashire spans two centuries and begins in the era of the Bloody Code. In the closing years of the eighteenth century, there were over 200 capital crimes and the early chapters ... Read more

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  • Death on the Waterways

    by Allan Scott-Davies ...
    Canals reached their zenith in the eighteenth century during the Industrial Revolution, before the arrival of the railways usurped their position, whereupon a number of them fell in to disrepair and disuse. For many years forgotten, canals and waterways have enjoyed an enormous resurgence in popularity as the recent leisure industry has placed them once more at the forefront of a lively community. ... Read more

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  • The Wharncliffe A–Z of Yorkshire Murder

    by 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 ... Read more

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