Bloody British History

  • Bloody British History: Plymouth
    Bloody British History: Plymouth
    By Laura Quigley

    Pirates and privateers! Hell holes for Boney! The disgusting true story of Plymouth’s Napoleonic prison ships! ‘A very daughter of Hell!’ In 1675, a poisonous nursemaid was hanged on Prince Rock – but was she innocent of the crime?

  • Bloody British History: Salisbury
    Bloody British History: Salisbury
    By David Vaughan

    As he entered the room, the startled dean jumped to his feet and Farrant made to stab him in the chest. He was using a knife which he had either brought secreted beneath his robes or had collected on his way through the dean's house.

  • Bloody British History: Bristol
    Bloody British History: Bristol
    By Valerie Pitt

    Also arrested around this time was Bristol shoemaker Thomas Hale, who was a Lollard. (Lollards disdained the ceremony and rites of Catholicism and looked to the Scriptures for their religious ideas. They also favoured the Bible's ...

  • Bloody British History: Winchester
    Bloody British History: Winchester
    By James King, Clare Dixon, Don Bryan

    (Clare Dixon) When The Brooks Shopping Centre was planned in the 1980s a large excavation was undertaken by the Winchester Museum Service and volunteers. During this excavation it was discovered that the Romans had physically moved the ...

  • Bloody British History: Brighton
    Bloody British History: Brighton
    By David Boyne

    Congress, LCUS26238492) Finally, through the good offices of a supporter in Sussex, Colonel Gunter, a passage was arranged on board a coal ship that was in Shoreham Harbour, owned by a Captain Tattersall.

  • Bloody British History: Coventry
    Bloody British History: Coventry
    By David McGrory

    Stories still persist that Churchill sacrificed Coventry to protect the Enigma Code, even though these stories have been proved to be untrue for over forty years. But plays and tales still keep the story alive, and many now believe it.

  • Bloody British History: Manchester
    Bloody British History: Manchester
    By Michala Hulme

    ... 1943) Hartwell, C., Manchester (London: Yale University Press, 2002) Hulme, M., A Grim Almanac of Manchester (Stroud, The History Press, 2015) Hylton, S., A History of Manchester (Chichester: Phillimore, 2003) Jones, G.D.B., ...

  • Bloody British History: Southampton
    Bloody British History: Southampton
    By Penny Legg

    Tiptoft married Cecily, the widow of Henry Beauchamp, the Duke of Warwick (1425–1446) and the daughter of Richard Neville, the Earl of Salisbury (1400–1460) in 1449. Cecily's aunt was the wife of Richard, Duke of York, (1411–1460) and ...

  • Bloody British History: Suffolk
    Bloody British History: Suffolk
    By Robert Leader

    It was a twohorse race between horses belonging to Lord Salisbury and the Marquis of Buckingham. The wager was for £30, an enormous sum at the time. Buckingham's horse won and it was the beginning of the entire history of thundering ...

  • Bloody British History: Chelmsford
    Bloody British History: Chelmsford
    By Robert Hallmann

    When King Richard I was captured in Sicily on his return from the Third Crusade, it was this Bishop William, together with Hubert Walter, bishop of Salisbury, who found the King where he was being held captive at Ochsenfurt in Germany.

  • Bloody British History: Oxford
    Bloody British History: Oxford
    By Paul Sullivan

    ... the door was one of the Cardinal's men, an Italian with no liking for the climate, manners or gastronomy of the English. ... and many scholars were forced to complete their studies at Salisbury and Northampton, or good old Paris.

  • Bloody British History: Cambridge
    Bloody British History: Cambridge
    By David Barrowclough

    The two young women were duly examined by physicians who wrote to the chancellor, the Earl of Salisbury, that: 'very confidentlie and assuredlie they pronounce the disease though somewhat Strange & extraordinarie & of much difficultie ...

  • Bloody British History: East End
    Bloody British History: East End
    By Samantha Bird

    Bailey, Brian, The Resurrection Men: A History of the Trade in Corpses (London: Macdonald, 1991) Bailey, James Blake, The Diary of a Resurrectionist 1811–1812 (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., ... East London Antiquities: Some Records of.

  • Bloody British History: Somerset
    Bloody British History: Somerset
    By Dr Andrew May

    The Leakey family of Minehead has another claim to fame – the famous ghost of 'Mrs Leakey', believed to be Joan Leakey's mother and hence Bishop Atherton's mother-in-law. Although Mrs Leakey was a good-natured woman during her life, ...

  • Bloody British History: Britain
    Bloody British History: Britain
    By Geoff Holder

    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 . . .

  • Bloody British History: Camden
    Bloody British History: Camden
    By Dick Weindling, Marianne Colloms

    ... Tiggie in a 'bassinette perambulator', a large wickerwork basket body on a metal chassis. It is probable that Phoebe had decided to confront Mary about her relationship with Frank. She arrived at Priory Street half an hour later and ...

  • Bloody British History: Peterborough
    Bloody British History: Peterborough
    By Jean A. Hooper

    ... PLOUGH THE FENS 978 07524 5434 4 From Punt to Plough : A History of the Fens REX SLY The Fens are the largest plain in the British Isles , covering an area of nearly three - quarters of a million acres . Fen people know the area as ...