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  • The Invincibles

    The Phoenix Park Assassinations and the Conspiracy that Shook an Empire

    'Britain in Ireland is a beast exceeding terrible; his feet and claws are of iron,' The InvinciblesIn an Ireland still reeling from years of famine, with tenant farmers being evicted and left to starve for their inability to pay exorbitant rents, revolutionary fervour was growing. An inner circle of the IRB was formed, a secret assassination squad within a secret society – the Irish National ... Leer más

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  • Thomas MacDonagh

    16Lives

    Series series 16Lives
    Born in Cloughjordan in Co. Tipperary, MacDonagh was a poet and playwright, an educator and political activist. Appointed to the IRB Military Council he became a member of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic and was a signatory of the 1916 Easter proclamation. During the Rising MacDonagh was commandant of the 2nd Battalion of the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Volunteers and occupied the ... Leer más

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  • The Executioners Bible

    "The Executioner's Bible" tells the story of these working-class men who carried out this gruesome profession until its abolition in the late 1960's. Despite often being unassuming and quiet professionals, men like Albert Pierrepoint, William Billington and many other Chief and Assistant executioners made a name for themselves in a world hungry for salacious and gruesome news. Read about the ... Leer más

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  • The Irish Assassins

    Conspiracy, Revenge, and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England

    A brilliant true crime account of the assassinations that altered the course of Irish history from the "compulsively readable" writer ( The Guardian).One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American ... Leer más

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  • Michael Collins

    A Biography

    When President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord Birkenhead, 'I may have signed my actual death warrant.'In August 1922 during the Irish Civil War, that prophecy came true – Collins was shot and killed by a fellow Irishman in a shocking political assassination.So ended the life of the greatest of all Irish nationalists, but ... Leer más

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  • Britain's Most Notorious Hangmen

    de Stephen Wade ...
    A breathtaking history of Britain's executioners—from the seventeenth court of King Charles II to the UK's last official hangman of the twentieth century.In 1663, Jack Ketch delighted in his profession and gained notoriety not only because of those he executed—dukes and lords—but for how often he botched the job. Centuries later, in 1965, after nearly six hundred trips to the gallows, Albert ... Leer más

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  • The Gangs of Manchester

    The Story of the Scuttlers, Britain's First Youth Cult

    de Andrew Davies ...
    They emerged from the harrowing slums of one of the world's great cities, malnourished youths clad in bizarre fashions. They were the hooligans of their day and for thirty years they held the streets of Manchester and Salford in a grip of fear, fighting pitched battles in a brutal war for supremacy. They delighted in names like the Bengal Tigers and the Little Forty, but to a horrified press and ... Leer más

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  • Wounds

    A Memoir of War and Love

    de Fergal Keane ...
    A family story of blood and memory and the haunting power of the past.2018 WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS MEMORIAL PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE NON-FICTION IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAfter nearly three decades reporting conflict from all over the world for the BBC, Fergal Keane has gone home to Ireland to tell a story that lies at the root of his fascination with war. ... Leer más

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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

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  • Jack the Ripper

    The Forgotten Victims

    Two Ripper experts examine unsolved murders—from Great Britain and around the world—that occurred during the era of the notorious killer.The number of women murdered and mutilated by Jack the Ripper is impossible to know, although most researchers now agree on five individuals. These five canonical cases have been examined at length in Ripper literature, but other contemporary murders and attacks ... Leer más

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  • The Old Bailey

    Eight Centuries of Crime, Cruelty and Corruption

    This is the story of an arena of crime and degradation, of infamy and human suffering. It is the history of the Old Bailey, an institution as flawed as all man-made attempts at justice are doomed to be.In the beginning there was barbarity and injustice. The court was packed with a restless, muttering mob, eager for the verdicts of 'Guilty' so they could enjoy public executions, hurling abuse and ... Leer más

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  • Jack the Ripper

    The Definitive History

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    'The clearest, most accurate, and most up-to-date account of the Ripper murders, by one of Britain's greatest and most respected experts on the "autumn of terror" in Victorian London.'William D. Rubenstein, Professor of Modern History, University of Wales, AberystwythEngland in the 1880s was a society in transition, shedding the skin of Victorianism and moving towards a more modern age. ... Leer más

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