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Author: Charles Dickens Publisher: Osprey Publishing ISBN: Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
A portrait of the River Thames at the height of its prosperity. The book includes descriptions of the villages and towns along the river from its source near Cricklade to the Nore Lightship, maps of popular destinations and locations of angling and bathing spots.
Author: Charles Dickens Publisher: Osprey Publishing ISBN: Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
A portrait of the River Thames at the height of its prosperity. The book includes descriptions of the villages and towns along the river from its source near Cricklade to the Nore Lightship, maps of popular destinations and locations of angling and bathing spots.
Author: Peter Stubley Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 0752489747 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 262
Book Description
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 off. This book examines all the known murders in London in 1888 to build a picture of society. Who were the victims? How did they live, and how did they die? Why did a husband batter his wife to death after she failed to get him a cup of tea? How many died under the wheels of a horse-driven cab? Just how dangerous was London in 1888?
Author: Keith Souter Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 0752478079 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 225
Book Description
The Victorians had a thirst for knowledge. This drove them to explore the unchartered corners of the world, plumb the unfathomable depths of science, discover evolution and create some of the engineering and architectural marvels of the world. Yet this open-mindedness also at times made them utterly gullible. Because of their closeness to disease and the ever-present threat of their own mortality, it was inevitable that they would be open to the claims of quacks who promised all kinds of panaceas, and to mediums who offered a means of communicating with the dead. So too did it make them eager for diversion and entertainment by the conjurers and illusionists of the great music halls. Strangely, it was through the magic-making skill of the conjurers that the activities of many of the tricksters and fraudulent mediums finally came to be exposed. Medical Meddlers, Mediums & Magicians is a box of delights for all students of Victoriana.
Author: Helen Amy Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445695383 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 339
Book Description
A portrait of London and its people - from the richest to the poorest - when it was the world's greatest and most quickly expanding city.
Author: Stewart P Evans Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 0752499254 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 395
Book Description
IN 1888 the dreaded figure of Jack the Ripper stalked London's East End murdering prostitutes. His crimes set in motion a huge police operation and have held a dark fascination over the public's imagination for over a century, yet his identity has never been proved. Now, for the first time, two leading Ripper experts have joined forces to treat the case like a police investigation. Drawing on their unparalleled knowledge of the Jack the Ripper murders and their professional experience as police officers, they uncover clues that have remained undetected for over a hundred years. There are five 'canonical' Ripper victims, yet Scotland Yard's 'Whitechapel Murders' files include another six suspected victims. Drawing the reader into the world of police investigation in Victorian London, Evans and Rumbelow reveal the conflict between the City and Metropolitan forces and the ridicule heaped on the police by the press. Investigating each murder, they conclude that only four of the eleven victims were actually killed by the Ripper. Perhaps most tellingly, they question the motives behind the destruction of evidence - particularly the message 'The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing', which was chalked on the wall near one murder site and rubbed out on order of the Chief Commissioner - and ask whether the enigmatic Dr Robert Anderson, officer in charge of the investigation, knew the Ripper's true identity. Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates strips away much of the nonsense that has accumulated since 1888 and reopens files on a case that will perhaps never be fully solved but will always fascinate.
Author: Mary Hooper Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1599906058 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 321
Book Description
Poor, orphaned Grace Parkes is in a horrible situation. Her illegitimate child has just died in childbirth, so she's traveled to the Brookwood Cemetery to place the small infant's body in a rich lady's coffin. Following the advice of a kindly midwife, this is the only way that Grace can do right by the little baby, and to avoid the disgrace of a pauper's grave. Grace meets two people at the cemetery who will have a most unusual affect on her life, though she doesn't know that yet. For now, Grace has to suppress her grief and get on with her meager life, scraping together enough pennies selling watercress for rent and food, and looking after her older sister, who is incapable of caring for herself. But a great fraud has been perpetrated on young Grace - and she is secretly the recipient of a most unusual legacy -- if only she is able to claim it. Of course, the rich only get richer in this gothic tale of class distinctions, mysterious secrets, and malicious fraud.
Author: Dana Arnold Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134343590 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 163
Book Description
The Spaces of the Hospital examines how hospitals operated as a complex category of social, urban and architectural space in London from 1680 to 1820. This period witnessed the transformation of the city into a modern metropolis. The hospital was very much part of this process and its spaces, both interior and exterior, help us to understand these changes in terms of spatiality and spatial practices. Exploring the hospital through a series of thematic case studies, Dana Arnold presents a theoretically refined reading of how these institutions both functioned as internal discrete locations and interacted with the metropolis. Examples range from the grand royal military hospital, those concerned with the destitute and the insane and the new cultural phenomenon of the voluntary hospital. This engaging book makes an important contribution to our understanding of urban space and of London, uniquely examining how different theoretical paradigms reveal parallel readings of these remarkable hospital buildings.
Author: Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
Author: Peter Stubley
Author: Keith Souter
Author: Helen Amy
Author: Stewart P Evans
Author: Mary Hooper
Author: Robert Bard
Author: Macmillan & Co
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