Download or read book Bloody British History Derby written by Paul Sullivan and published by Bloody History. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloody British history
Download or read book Bloody British History Southampton written by Penny Legg and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people of Southampton have had a lot to put up with over the centuries. If the Danes of French weren't attacking it, pirates from further along were. Treasonous plots were hatched behind its ancient walls and mutiny hit its shipping. This book looks at such bloody events as the Black Death in the city, what happens when you cross a king, the ill-fated Titanic and the Blitz. Yes, the best bits of Southampton's history are surely the bloodiest!
Download or read book Bloody British History Brighton written by David J. Boyne and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burned in a barrel of tar! Brighton's Historical Horrors Revealed! Brighton scandals including rioting rockers, military misdemeanours and three terrible trunk murders! Strike! Barbarity at the Battle of Lewes Road. Baptised then beheaded: Stories of Saxon savagery! Strafed by Nazi machine-gunners: The terrible true tale of the Brighton blitz! Containing more than 60 illustrations and 2,000 years of history, here is the dark and dreadful saga of Brighton. With bombs and battles, riots and rebellions, tidal waves, terrors, and some terrible true crimes, it is no wonder that the city was once dubbed 'The Queen of Slaughtering Places'!
Download or read book Bloody British History Manchester written by Michala Hulme and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manchester has one of the darkest histories in Britain. From the Screaming Skull of Wardley Hall to an epidemic of deadly factory fires in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, you will find all manner of horrible events inside this book. With coffins washed from their graves and swept away into the city after the River Medlock burst its banks, and the streets of Salford, Gorton and Openshaw overrun by gangs in the latter quarter of the nineteenth century, as well as murders, riots, battles and plagues, the grimmest events in Manchester's history are all here for you to explore. Read this gory and glorious book ... if you dare!
Download or read book Bloody British History Leeds written by Richard Smyth and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phantom in the library! The bizarre true story of a Victorian haunting revealed! King cholera! The day that death came to the Dock family! Exploding mummies! The weirdest events of the blitz examined! A Yorkshire tragedy: Fifteenth-century murder at Calverley Hall! Leeds has one of the darkest histories on record. From the fatal Dripping Riot of 1865, sparked by the theft of two pounds of congealed fat, to the violin-playing killer Charles Peace, said to still haunt the city's prison cells, you will find all manner of horrible events inside this book. With plague and disease in the city slums, dreadful disasters in Roundhay Park, and riots in the city centre, this is the real story of Yorkshire's first city.
Download or read book Bloody British History Lincoln written by Douglas Wynn and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built by the Romans, looted by the Danes and conquered by King William I (who devastated the town to build a castle and a cathedral), the city of Lincoln has had a long and most dreadful history. Containing medieval child murder, vile sieges of (and escapes from) the castle, the savage repression of the Lincolnshire rising by King Henry VIII (who had the ringleaders hanged, drawn and quartered) and plagues, lepers, prisons, riots, typhoid, tanks and terrible hangings by the ton, you'll never see the city in the same way again.
Download or read book Bloody British History Britain written by Geoff Holder and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain has an incredible history, steeped in all manner of blood, death, disease and horror. From cannibals to concentration camps, Geoff Holder covers events both great and gory from Britain's terrible past, with kings, queens and pretenders to the throne; sea battles, massacres and attacks from the air. This collection explores it all, with hundreds of amazing true stories, including seven ill-judged attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria and the Gestapo's secret plans to bring a conquered Britain to its knees. There will be blood ...
Download or read book Bloody British History Cambridge written by David Barrowclough and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death to students: The weird origin of the University! A plague on both your parishes: Black Death in Cambridge’s streets! Off with his head: The bizarre true story of Oliver Cromwell's travelling skull! Gas! Gas! The secret research team behind WWI's deadliest weapon! The fifth man: The truth about the Cambridge Five, the Soviet spies who studied! Cambridge has some of the most violent history ever recorded. From invading hordes of Vikings, Saxons and Normans to the secret Allied plans of the Second World War, it will thrill, disgust and delight in equal measure!
Download or read book Bloody Breathitt written by T.R.C. Hutton and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the history of Breathitt County, Kentucky, to examine political violence in the United States and its interpretation in media and memory. Violence in Breathitt County, during and after the Civil War, usually reflected what was going on elsewhere in Kentucky and the American South. In turn, the types of violence recorded there corresponded with discernible political scenarios.
Download or read book Very Bloody History of Britain written by John Farman and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A factually accurate and fabulously funny look at the history of Britain from the dawn of civilization to the end of the Second World War. You’ve never had a history lesson like it!
Download or read book A Poetical Chronology and Compendium of Ancient British and Modern English History written by Robert Clarke (Schoolmaster.) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British history chronologically arranged comprehending a classified analysis of events in Church and State from the first invasion by the Romans to the accession of Queen Victoria written by John WADE (Vice-President of the Historical Section of the Institut d'Afrique" of Paris.) and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British history chronologically arranged written by John Wade and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British History Chronologically Arranged Comprehending a Classified Analysis of Events and Occurrences in Church and State and of the Constitutional Political Commercial Intellectual and Social Progress of the United Kingdom from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Queen Victoria written by John Wade and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Origins of British Borneo written by Leigh R. Wright and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1988-07-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British History 1815 1914 written by Norman McCord and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised and updated new edition, extended to cover the period up to 1914, provides the ultimate introduction to British history between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of the First World War.
Download or read book British History Chronologically Arranged 2 written by John Wade and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
