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  • Unburied

    The true story of Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy

    by Hannah Priest ...
    The macabre tale of an eighteenth-century woman immortalised in folklore as the ‘Manchester Mummy’.In 1835, the Manchester Natural History Society opened the doors of its museum. Taking pride of place in its collection were three mummies: one was Egyptian, one was Peruvian and one was a woman from Cheetham Hill.This is the first time the true story of Hannah Beswick, the so-called ‘Manchester ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain

    by Hannah Priest, Kristina Hildebrand, Megan G. Leitch, Robert Rouse, Samantha J. Rayner, Yvette Kisor, Cory Rushton, Dr. Aisling Byrne0, Amy N. Vines1, Amy S. Kaufman2, Anna Caughey3, Cynthea Masson4 ...
    It is often said that the past is a foreign country where they do things differently, and perhaps no type of "doing" is more fascinating than sexual desires and behaviours. Our modern view of medieval sexuality is characterised bya polarising dichotomy between the swooning love-struck knights and ladies of romance on one hand, and the darkly imagined and misogyny of an unenlightened "medieval" ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Necropolis

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  • Broadmoor Revealed

    Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum

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    "A fascinating insight into the country's most famous asylum for criminals" which reveals Victorian England's care and management of the mentally ill (Your Family Tree).On 27 May 1863, three coaches pulled up at the gates of a new asylum, built amongst the tall, dense pines of Windsor Forest. Broadmoor's first patients had arrived.In Broadmoor Revealed, Mark Stevens writes about what life was like ... Read more

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  • Bodysnatchers

    Digging Up the Untold Stories of Britain's Resurrection Men

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    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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  • The Dictionary People

    The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

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  • What's in a Surname?

    A Journey from Abercrombie to Zwicker

    by David McKie ...
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  • Bedlam

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  • Spitalfields

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  • Manchester Streets and Manchester Men

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    This scarce book was first published in 1908 and is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It provides an absorbing insight into the history of a selection of Manchester streets and their occupants - Cheetham Hill Road, Withy Grove, Shuderhill, Rochdale Road, and Oldham Road. A fascinating read for any local historian. With nine full page illustrations. Many of the earliest books, ... Read more

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