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  • FROM THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN TO THE KOREAN WAR
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    FROM THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN TO THE KOREAN WAR
    STEPHEN WADE
    In 1941, Beryl Baxter, a dressmaker from Grimsby, signed up to do her bit in the Battle of Britain. She was to serve as a plotter as aircraftswoman in the WAAF and, upon discharge in 1949 she began life as a welfare worker for the Women's Voluntary Service. Her postings included the Korean War, Japan, Hong Kong and Iraq. Throughout these years of service she fulfilled the roles...

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  • A DICTIONARY OF TRUE CRIME
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    A DICTIONARY OF TRUE CRIME
    STEPHEN WADE
    A comprehensive A-Z guide to notorious and lesser-known extreme crimes, criminals, and legal cases from the 17th century to today. A Dictionary of True Crime is a guide to the most compelling cases of extreme and violent crime in the writing files, from the 17th century to present day. Amongst notorious criminals like Jack the Ripper and the Moors Murderers, lesser-known but pr...

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  • LEEDS IN THE GREAT WAR
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    LEEDS IN THE GREAT WAR
    STEPHEN WADE
    In 1914, when the call came for Kitchener's new army to be recruited, Leeds was at the heart of the West Riding conurbation, where many men joined the Pals' Battalions. However, the city was to participate in the war effort in so many other ways. It was a textile town, with a long history of tailoring and clothing manufacture, and kept the troops in uniform throughout the war. ...

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  • JEWISH AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1945
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    JEWISH AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1945
    STEPHEN WADE
    Jewish American writing is an exciting and controversial genre within post-war literature. Jewish AmericanLiterature since 1945 offers a student guide to the major writers, their key works, and their cultural and philosophical backgrounds. The theoretical underpinnings of the literature--including the postmodern, the masternarrative and metafiction--are also introduced in an ac...

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  • DNA CRIME INVESTIGATIONS
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    DNA CRIME INVESTIGATIONS
    STEPHEN WADE
    A crime historian explores groundbreaking cold-case investigations, the advent of DNA evidence, and its role in long-delayed convictions and exonerations.   When geneticist, Professor Alec Jeffreys worked with Leicestershire police on the 1986 case against Colin Pitchfork—the first person convicted of murder based on DNA evidence—a revolution started in the application of foren...

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  • THE WHARNCLIFFE A–Z OF YORKSHIRE MURDER
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    THE WHARNCLIFFE A–Z OF YORKSHIRE MURDER
    STEPHEN WADE
    The history of the old county of Yorkshire has been concerned with the great and the good, the ambitious and the downright unscrupulous. Its broad acres has had more than its fair share of highprofile murders, especially though not exclusively in its burgeoning urban centres. Now there is a reference work to bring together most of the principal murders, from the mid-eighteenth ...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN LIVERPOOL
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN LIVERPOOL
    STEPHEN WADE
    The disturbing, criminal history of Britain's "World Capital City of Pop"—home of murderers, thieves, bodysnatchers . . . and The Beatles.   The city of Liverpool, England, was like every other city energized by the Victorian boon in industry and trade. It is best known today as the home of the British Invasion and music that changed the world. But Liverpool's history has a les...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN & AROUND SCUNTHORPE
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN & AROUND SCUNTHORPE
    STEPHEN WADE
    A revealing criminal history of the old industrial town in North Lincolnshire, England, that has been home to centuries of dark secrets and twisted crimes.   As the iron and steel industries grew in the Victorian period, several villages merged into the town of Scunthorpe, an area with more than its fair share of sordid and bloody secrets. Although mainly rural, the region has ...

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  • ASPECTS OF HUDDERSFIELD 2
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    ASPECTS OF HUDDERSFIELD 2
    STEPHEN WADE
    "Aspects of Huddersfield, the first in the highly successful Aspects series to feature Huddersfield and district, contains a wealth of pinpoint detail of the history of the town. The story of the coming of the ""wireless"" to Moorside Edge, which made Huddersfield the radio centre for Northern England, sits alongside the proceedings of the Manorial Court at the Manor of Honley ...

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  • TRACING YOUR PRISONER ANCESTORS
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    TRACING YOUR PRISONER ANCESTORS
    STEPHEN WADE
    An "excellent book . . . a great introduction to legal terms, offences, procedures, sentences, and much more besides" trom the author of Writing True Crime (Ripperologist). The history of the British prison system only had systematic records from the middle of the nineteenth century. Before that, material on prisoners in local jails and houses of correction was patchy and minim...

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  • LEEDS AT WAR, 1939–45
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    LEEDS AT WAR, 1939–45
    STEPHEN WADE
    Leeds at War 1939-1945 is a comprehensive account of the city's experience of the war, covering in expert detail life on the Home Front set against the background of the wider theaters of war.The narrative of that global conflict is given with a focus on the trials and ordeals that faced the people of Leeds as they cheered their men and women fighters off to war, were bombed an...

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  • LOST TO THE SEA, BRITAIN'S VANISHED COASTAL COMMUNITIES
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    LOST TO THE SEA, BRITAIN'S VANISHED COASTAL COMMUNITIES
    STEPHEN WADE
    Once there was a Roman settlement on what is now Filey Brig. In Holderness, a prosperous town called Ravenser saw kings and princes on its soil, and its progress threatened the good people of Grimsby. But the Romans and the Ravenser folk are long gone, as are their streets and buildings sunk beneath the hungry waves of what was once the German Ocean.Lost to the Sea: The Yorkshi...

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  • TALES FROM THE BIG HOUSE: NORMANBY HALL
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    TALES FROM THE BIG HOUSE: NORMANBY HALL
    STEPHEN WADE
    Tales from the Big House: Normanby Hall tells the story of a place known perhaps today mainly as the home where Samantha Cameron grew up, but historically it has been the seat of the Sheffield family, whose most famous member was arguably the Duke of Buckingham in the seventeenth century. As with most country houses, the Hall was used as a military hospital in the Great War, an...

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  • GRIMSBY IN THE GREAT WAR
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    GRIMSBY IN THE GREAT WAR
    STEPHEN WADE
    Grimsby in the Great War is a detailed account of how the experience of war impacted on the seaside town of Grimsby from the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, to the long-awaited peace of 1918.Grimsby and Cleethorpes were among the most vulnerable and exposed British towns in August 1914 when the Great War broke out. Situated on the North Sea, and facing the German Baltic flee...

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  • THE JUSTICE WOMEN
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    THE JUSTICE WOMEN
    STEPHEN WADE
    The first policewomen were established during the Great War, but with no powers of arrest; the first women lawyers did not practise until the early twentieth century, and despite the fact that women worked as matrons in Victorian prisons, there were few professional women working as prison officers until the 1920s. The Justice Women traces the social history of the women workin...

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  • BRITAIN'S MOST NOTORIOUS PRISONERS
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    BRITAIN'S MOST NOTORIOUS PRISONERS
    STEPHEN WADE
    From Oscar Wilde to the Kray brothers—a unique history of the lives and crimes of the United Kingdom's most famous, and infamous, inmates.   Their names can chill the blood of true-crime aficionados: Peter Sutcliffe, aka The Yorkshire Ripper; child-torturer Ian Brady; cannibal Dennis Nilsen; serial killer Beverley Allitt. Some are tinged in glamour: beautiful nightclub hostess ...

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  • NOTORIOUS MURDERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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    NOTORIOUS MURDERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
    STEPHEN WADE
    The word 'murder' has always attracted widespread local and national media coverage. Once known, the story becomes the subject of discussion in a variety of places throughout the land. Some grisly tales become part of a culture that lives on for generations, whilst others, even by some of the worst serial killers, are soon forgotten. In this book experienced crime historian Ste...

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  • TRACING YOUR LEGAL ANCESTORS
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    TRACING YOUR LEGAL ANCESTORS
    STEPHEN WADE
    The law had as much influence on our ancestors as it does on us today, and it occupies an extraordinary range of individuals, from eminent judges and barristers to clerks and minor officials. Yet, despite burgeoning interest in all aspects of history and ancestry, lawyers and legal history have rarely been looked at from the point of view of a family historian. And this is main...

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  • TRACING YOUR CRIMINAL ANCESTORS
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    TRACING YOUR CRIMINAL ANCESTORS
    STEPHEN WADE
    A comprehensive introduction to researching British criminal history with information on national and local archives that family historians can use. Did you have a criminal in the family, an ancestor who was caught on the wrong side of the law? If you have ever had any suspicions about the illicit activities of your relatives, or are fascinated by the history of crime and punis...

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  • BRITAIN'S MOST NOTORIOUS HANGMEN
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    BRITAIN'S MOST NOTORIOUS HANGMEN
    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 th...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN DUBLIN
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN DUBLIN
    STEPHEN WADE
    Tory gangs, madmen, war criminals, frauds, anarchists, duelists, kidnappers, and more scandal-makers throughout four centuries of Irish history.   Dublin is a wonderful, energetic cultural center—the pride of Irish achievements in architecture, arts, and literature. But it is also a city of paradoxes and conflicts—and a long, fascinating history of crime.   Stephen Wade now rev...

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  • LOST TO THE SEA, BRITAIN'S VANISHED COASTAL COMMUNITIES
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    LOST TO THE SEA, BRITAIN'S VANISHED COASTAL COMMUNITIES
    STEPHEN WADE
    Lost to the Sea: Norfolk & Suffolk relates the stories of how the human communities along the coast of these counties maintained their struggle with the sea. From very early Neolithic times, when global changes created the Continental Shelf and raised the cliffs along Britain's eastern shorelines, through Roman and medieval times, the first villages and towns were gradually est...

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  • HARROGATE & RIPON IN THE GREAT WAR
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    HARROGATE & RIPON IN THE GREAT WAR
    STEPHEN WADE
    Harrogate and Ripon, just a few miles apart in one of the most beautiful localities in Yorkshire, have rarely had their contributions to the Great War told all together, in one volume. Stephen Wade has written an account of their importance, from the Ripon camps, where thousands of infantrymen for Kitcheners new Pals Battalions were trained, to the many Harrogate hospitals wher...

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  • EMPIRE AND ESPIONAGE
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    EMPIRE AND ESPIONAGE
    STEPHEN WADE
    The Anglo-Zulu War may be best remembered for the military blundering that led to the astonishing British defeat at Isandlwana, but as Stephen Wade shows in this book, military action throughout the war was supplemented by the actions of spies and explorers in the field, and was often heavily influenced by the decisions made by diplomats.Examining the roles of both spies and di...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN & AROUND HALIFAX
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN & AROUND HALIFAX
    STEPHEN WADE
    Calderdale has gone down in the annals of crime in England as the birthplace of Christie of Rillington Place, and as the haunt of the Yorkshire Ripper. But there is much more in the criminal history of the Halifax area to interest the reader with a taste for true crime. As a town with a shifting population of labour for the new mills of the Industrial Revolution, Halifax in the...

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  • GOING TO EXTREMES
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    GOING TO EXTREMES
    STEPHEN WADE
    Harry de Windt (1856–1933) was a man who, by any standards, was a personality, a marked presence in the world of Victorian and Edwardian literature and social life. He was a member of the literary circle around Oscar Wilde and his friend and lover, Bosie (Lord Alfred Douglas); he was active in the world of the turf; and he travelled he took on dangerous journeys with relish, cr...

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  • TRACING YOUR POLICE ANCESTORS
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    TRACING YOUR POLICE ANCESTORS
    STEPHEN WADE
    Tracing Your Police Ancestors will help you locate and research officers who served in any of the police forces of England and Wales from the creation of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of how or where to look for such information, Stephen Wade explains and describes the various archives and records and provide...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN DONCASTER
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN DONCASTER
    STEPHEN WADE
    Doncaster has world-wide fame as a railway town. For many years the name was associated with engineering, transport and of course coal. But there is a darker aspect to its history. The sinister side is explored through the research and writing of an experienced crime historian. Sensational tales have been uncovered concerning a variety of dark deeds, including a cloak-and-dagge...

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  • NOTORIOUS MURDERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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    NOTORIOUS MURDERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
    STEPHEN WADE
    The word 'murder' has always attracted widespread local and national media coverage. Once known, the story becomes the subject of discussion in a variety of places throughout the land. Some grisly tales become part of a culture that lives on for generations, whilst others, even by some of the worst serial killers, are soon forgotten. In this book experienced crime historian Ste...

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  • AIR RAID SHELTERS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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    AIR RAID SHELTERS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
    STEPHEN WADE
    This book features the design, creation and use of air raid shelters, including interviews with people who used them during the Second World War. The different types of bunkers/air raid shelters (both public and in peoples gardens) are covered and the strength and weakness of their designs discussed, using original designs and primary material. The nostalgia/social history of t...

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