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  • DICK TURPIN
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    DICK TURPIN
    JONATHAN OATES
    Why does the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin have such an extraordinary reputation today? How come his criminal career has inspired a profusion of often misleading literature and film? This eighteenth-century villain is often portrayed as a hero – dashing, sinister, romantic, daring, a Robin Hood of his times. The reality, as Jonathan Oates reveals in this perceptive, carefull...

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  • ANTI-JACOBITISM AND THE ENGLISH PEOPLE, 1714–1746
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    ANTI-JACOBITISM AND THE ENGLISH PEOPLE, 1714–1746
    JONATHAN OATES
    In both 1715 and 1745 there was a major military challenge in Britain to the thrones of George I and George II, posed by Jacobite supporters of the exiled Stuart claimant. This book examines the responses of those loyal to the Hanoverian dynasty, whose efforts have been ignored or disparaged compared to the military perspective or that of the Jacobites. These efforts included t...

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  • LONDON SERIAL KILLERS
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    LONDON SERIAL KILLERS
    JONATHAN OATES
    An historical true crime accounting of London's notorious serial murderers and their victims, spanning the Victorian era to the mid-twentieth century. Murders and murderers fascinate us—and perhaps serial killers fascinate us most of all. In the twentieth century the term came to be used to describe murders committed by the same person, often with similar methods. But, as Jonat...

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  • FOUL DEEDS IN RICHMOND AND KINGSTON
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    FOUL DEEDS IN RICHMOND AND KINGSTON
    JONATHAN OATES
    You may think Richmond, Kingston and the neighbouring districts are prosperous, safe and law-abiding in comparison to the hazardous, crime-prone centre of London, but you would be mistaken. For, as Jonathan Oates shows in this gripping book, appalling crimes have shocked the local community and left their mark on the history of the area over the last two centuries. Among the se...

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  • THE LAST BATTLE ON ENGLISH SOIL, PRESTON 1715
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    THE LAST BATTLE ON ENGLISH SOIL, PRESTON 1715
    JONATHAN OATES
    Whilst much has been written about the Jacobites, most works have tended to look at the Rebellion of 1745, rather than the earlier attempt to reinstate the Stuart dynasty. As such this book provides a welcome focus on events in 1715, when Jacobites in both England and Scotland tried to oust George I and to replace him with James Stuart. In particular it provides a detailed narr...

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  • TRACING YOUR ANCESTORS THROUGH LOCAL HISTORY RECORDS
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    TRACING YOUR ANCESTORS THROUGH LOCAL HISTORY RECORDS
    JONATHAN OATES
    Family history should reveal more than facts and dates, lists of names and places it should bring ancestors alive in the context of their times and the surroundings they knew and research into local history records is one of the most rewarding ways of gaining this kind of insight into their world. That is why Jonathan Oatess detailed introduction to these records is such a usef...

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  • THE JACOBITE CAMPAIGNS
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    THE JACOBITE CAMPAIGNS
    JONATHAN D OATES
    The military aspects of the Jacobite campaigns in eighteenth-century Britain are considered in this study. Taken from the viewpoint of those loyal to the Hanoverian Crown, the three mainland campaigns of 1715–6, 1719 and 1745–6 are examined, using research based on primary sources: memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers and State papers. ...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN LEWISHAM & DEPTFORD
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN LEWISHAM & DEPTFORD
    JONATHAN OATES
    The twin fascinations of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Lewisham and Deptford the chill is brought close to home as each chapter investigates the darker side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit and pure malice committed over the centuries in this area of London. From crimes of passion to opportu...

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  • DONALD HUME
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    DONALD HUME
    JONATHAN OATES
    From the bestselling author of John Christie of Rillington Place. "If you have an interest in post war crime and criminals this is one for you!" —Robert Bartlett, author of Blood Royal The trial of the year in 1950 was of Donald Hume, a North London petty thief accused of stabbing car dealer Stanley Setty to death, of cutting up his corpse and dropping his body parts from an ai...

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  • TRACING VILLAINS & THEIR VICTIMS
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    TRACING VILLAINS & THEIR VICTIMS
    JONATHAN OATES
    In this practical handbook Jonathan Oates introduces the fascinating subject of criminal history and he gives readers all the information they need to investigate the life stories of criminals and their victims. He traces the development of the justice system and policing, and gives an insight into the criminal world of the times and the individuals who populated it. In a serie...

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  • LONDON'S EAST END
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    LONDON'S EAST END
    JONATHAN OATES
    The East End is one of the most famous parts of London and it has had its own distinctive identity since the district was first settled in medieval times. It is best known for extremes of poverty and deprivation, for strong political and social movements, and for the extraordinary mix of immigrants who have shaped its history. Jonathan Oatess handbook is the ideal guide to its ...

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  • SWEET WILLIAM OR THE BUTCHER?
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    SWEET WILLIAM OR THE BUTCHER?
    JONATHAN OATES
    'Butcher' Cumberland is portrayed as one of the arch villains of British history. His leading role in the bloody defeat of the Jacobite rebellion in 1745 and his ruthless pursuit of Bonnie Prince Charlie's fugitive supporters across the Scottish Highlands has generated a reputation for severity that has endured to the present day. He has even been proposed as the most evil Brit...

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  • TRACING YOUR ANCESTORS FROM 1066 TO 1837
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    TRACING YOUR ANCESTORS FROM 1066 TO 1837
    JONATHAN OATES
    A simple guide to tracing British family tree before the onset of civil registration in 1837 and back to the Middle Ages. The trail that an ancestor leaves through the Victorian period and the twentieth century is relatively easy to follow—the records are plentiful, accessible, and commonly used. But how do you go back further, into the centuries before the central registration...

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  • TRACING YOUR LONDON ANCESTORS
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    TRACING YOUR LONDON ANCESTORS
    JONATHAN OATES
    London is a key site for family historians. Many researchers, seeking to trace their ancestry back through the generations, will find their trail leads to London or through it. Yet, despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy and the importance of London in so many life stories, few previous books have explored the citys history or provided guidance on the research resources f...

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  • GREAT TRAIN CRIMES
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    GREAT TRAIN CRIMES
    JONATHAN OATES
    “Oates charts train crimes from the Victorian period to the present day, from casual murder to calculated robbery. . . . A must for true-crime addicts” (Practical Family History).   Murder and robbery committed on the railways have long held a special place in British criminal history. Railways and trains create special conditions—and opportunities—for criminal acts. Two legend...

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  • BATTLES OF THE JACOBITE REBELLIONS
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    BATTLES OF THE JACOBITE REBELLIONS
    JONATHAN OATES
    “Oates examines in minute detail why the Jacobite forces posed such a threat to William and Mary, Queen Anne, and George I and II.” —Books Monthly Many books have been written about the Jacobite rebellions—the armed attempts made by the Stuarts to regain the British throne between 1689 and 1746—and in particular about the risings of 1689, 1715, 1719 and 1745. The key battles ha...

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  • ATTACK ON LONDON
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    ATTACK ON LONDON
    JONATHAN OATES
    Generations of Londoners from Roman times to the present day have confronted natural and man-made threats to their city. Disasters, rebellions, riots, acts of terror and war have marked the long history of the capital—and have shaped the character of its people. In this evocative account Jonathan Oates recalls in vivid detail the perils Londoners have faced and describes how th...

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  • LONDON SERIAL KILLERS
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    LONDON SERIAL KILLERS
    JONATHAN OATES
    Murders and murderers fascinate us – and perhaps serial killers fascinate us most of all. In the twentieth century the term came to be used to describe murders committed by the same person, often with similar methods. But, as Jonathan Oates demonstrates in this selection of cases from London, this category of crime has existed for centuries, though it may have become more commo...

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  • THE CRIMES THAT INSPIRED AGATHA CHRISTIE
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    THE CRIMES THAT INSPIRED AGATHA CHRISTIE
    JONATHAN OATES / ANNA-LENA BERG
    Did you know that many of Agatha Christie’s best-selling detective stories have their basis in reality? ‘Who killed Charles Bravo and why?’ asks retired Superintendent Spence in Elephants Can Remember. He refers to an unsolved Victorian murder mystery, one of many allusions to real life crime and criminals in Agatha Christie’s fiction. The infamous Dr Crippen, Jack the Ripper, ...

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  • THE MURDERS OF ANNIE HEARN
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    THE MURDERS OF ANNIE HEARN
    JONATHAN OATES
    In the quaint seaside town of Bude, Cornwall, a seemingly innocent afternoon tea in 1930 unravels into a sinister tale of arsenic poisoning and mysterious disappearances. When one of the three tea companions succumbs to the deadly toxin, suspicions arose, and the plot thickens as Annie Hearn, one of the remaining survivors, vanished without a trace. As the press dug into Annie'...

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  • DICK TURPIN
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    DICK TURPIN
    JONATHAN OATES
    Why does the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin have such an extraordinary reputation today? How come his criminal career has inspired a profusion of often misleading literature and film? This eighteenth-century villain is often portrayed as a hero – dashing, sinister, romantic, daring, a Robin Hood of his times. The reality, as Jonathan Oates reveals in this perceptive, carefull...

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  • JOHN GEORGE HAIGH, THE ACID-BATH MURDERER
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    JOHN GEORGE HAIGH, THE ACID-BATH MURDERER
    JONATHAN OATES
    What motivated John George Haigh to murder at least six people, then dissolve their corpses in concentrated sulphuric acid? How did this intelligent, well-educated man from a loving, strongly religious family of Plymouth Brethren become a fraudster, a thief, then a serial killer? In the latest of his best-selling studies of criminal history, Jonathan Oates reinvestigates this s...

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  • JOHN CHRISTIE OF RILLINGTON PLACE
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    JOHN CHRISTIE OF RILLINGTON PLACE
    JONATHAN OATES
    The bestselling criminal history author provides "compelling insight" into the life and crimes of one of England's most notorious serial killers ( Buckinghamshire Life).   Sixty years ago, the discovery of bodies at 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill, London, led to one of the most sensational, shocking, and controversial serial murder cases in British criminal history: the ca...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS AROUND UXBRIDGE
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS AROUND UXBRIDGE
    JONATHAN OATES
    This west London town has its own character—and its own deadly criminal history—from the author of Unsolved Murders of Victorian and Edwardian London.   Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Uxbridge takes the reader on a sinister and sad journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting victims and villains of all sorts along the way. There is no shortage of har...

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  • ATTACK ON LONDON
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    ATTACK ON LONDON
    JONATHAN OATES
    Generations of Londoners from Roman times to the present day have confronted natural and man-made threats to their city. Disasters, rebellions, riots, acts of terror and war have marked the long history of the capital—and have shaped the character of its people. In this evocative account Jonathan Oates recalls in vivid detail the perils Londoners have faced and describes how th...

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  • UNSOLVED LONDON MURDERS
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    UNSOLVED LONDON MURDERS
    JONATHAN OATES
    The real-life murder mysteries that rocked London between two world wars—from the author of Unsolved Murders of Victorian and Edwardian London.   Unsolved crimes have a special fascination, none more so than unsolved murders. The shock of the crime itself and the mystery surrounding it, the fear generated by the awareness a killer on the loose, the insight the cases give into o...

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