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  • LANDRU'S SECRET
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    LANDRU'S SECRET
    RICHARD TOMLINSON
    On 12 April 1919, the Paris police arrested a bald, short, 50-year-old swindler at his apartment near the Gare du Nord, acting on a lead from a humble housemaid. A century later, Henri Désiré Landru remains the most notorious and enigmatic serial killer in French criminal history, a riddle at the heart of an unsolved murder puzzle. The official version of Landrus lethal rampage...

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  • SUFFRAGETTES OF KENT
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    SUFFRAGETTES OF KENT
    JENNIFER GODFREY
    A thought-provoking insight into the stories of hope, determination, courage and sacrifice of those involved in the women’s suffrage movement in Kent.   Discover an untold story of a young working-class Kent maid involved in the suffrage movement. See photographs of Ethel and learn of her arrest and imprisonment in March 1912 for participating in the window-smashing militant ac...

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  • THE PEASANTS' REVOLTING CRIMES
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    THE PEASANTS' REVOLTING CRIMES
    TERRY DEARY
    The bestselling author of Horrible Histories “lays bare the kind of crimes peasants would be committing throughout modern history . . . fascinating!” —Books Monthly   Popular history writer Terry Deary takes us on a light-hearted and often humorous romp through the centuries with Mr. & Mrs. Peasant, recounting foul and dastardly deeds committed by the underclasses, as well as t...

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  • NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN'S LEGACY
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    NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN'S LEGACY
    NICHOLAS MILTON
    A biography reassessing the man whose name became a synonym for appeasement: “An important read for anyone with an interest in the prelude to World War II.” —The NYMAS Review   Neville Chamberlain has gone down in history as the architect of appeasement, the prime minister who by sacrificing Czechoslovakia at Munich in September 1938 put Britain on an inevitable path to war.   ...

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  • A CENTURY OF MAN-MADE DISASTERS
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    A CENTURY OF MAN-MADE DISASTERS
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    A pictorial history of the major man-made calamities that shocked the world throughout the twentieth century.   It was a period during which the power and scale of industrialization changed the planet—an unforeseen consequence being the creation of more human-created catastrophes than ever before experienced.   The events recorded here include the needless carnage of history’s ...

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  • THE KRAYS' LONDON
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    THE KRAYS' LONDON
    CAROLINE ALLEN
    A true crime travel guide to the haunts and hangouts of the most notorious gangsters of London’s East End.      There are many conflicting stories about who Ronnie and Reggie Kray were.   Films depicting their lives have made the public vilify them, adore them and even admire them. This guidebook will dig a little deeper into the places they spent their time. Many of the places...

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  • SPINNING AND WEAVING
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    SPINNING AND WEAVING
    LYNN HUGGINS-COOPER
    A look at the extensive history of the folkcraft, its presence in the modern world, and resources to help beginners enter the world of textile artistry.   This book offers a whistle-stop guide to the history of spinning and weaving. The story begins in prehistory when people first wove yarns to create clothing and blankets. The book explores how spinning and weaving have contin...

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  • THE GRIMY 1800S
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    THE GRIMY 1800S
    ANDRE GREN
    In the nineteenth century, as towns grew, Britain became increasingly grimy. The causes of dirt and pollution were defined legally as ‘nuisances’ and, in 1835, the new local authorities very rapidly appointed an army of ‘inspectors of nuisances’. This book is the inspectors’ chronicle: it offers their eyewitness accounts and a plethora of details pertaining to the workings of t...

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  • THE HIDDEN LIVES OF JACK THE RIPPER'S VICTIMS
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    THE HIDDEN LIVES OF JACK THE RIPPER'S VICTIMS
    ROBERT HUME
    An in-depth look at the lives of the women murdered by the infamous, 19th-century London serial killer.   Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly are inextricably linked in history. Their names might not be instantly recognizable, and the identity of their murderer may have eluded detectives and historians throughout the years, ...

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  • LIFE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
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    LIFE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
    DANIÈLE CYBULSKIE
    “A lovely, witty treasure trove of a book, spilling over with historical gems . . . a very human history: sometimes weird, always wonderful.” —Dan Jones, New York Times-bestselling author   Have you ever found yourself watching a show or reading a novel and wondering what life was really like in the Middle Ages? What did people actually eat? Were they really filthy? And did the...

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  • THE TWO ELEANORS OF HENRY III
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    THE TWO ELEANORS OF HENRY III
    DARREN BAKER
    This account of two strong medieval women and their relationship “thoroughly engrosses you in a story hundreds of years past”(Seattle Book Review).    Born in 1223, Eleanor of Provence has come to England at the age of twelve to marry the king, Henry III. He’s sixteen years older, but was a boy when he ascended the throne. He’s a kind, sensitive sort whose only personal attachm...

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  • LOST HEIRS OF THE MEDIEVAL CROWN
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    LOST HEIRS OF THE MEDIEVAL CROWN
    J. F. ANDREWS
    “A fascinating study of the also-rans and almost-made-its of medieval history . . . Beautifully written and well researched, it is an engaging read.” —History . . . The Interesting Bits!   When William the Conqueror died in 1087, he left the throne of England to William Rufus . . . his second son. The result was an immediate war as Rufus’s elder brother Robert fought to gain th...

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  • JOSIAH WEDGWOOD
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    JOSIAH WEDGWOOD
    ANTHONY BURTON
    The story of the innovative genius who became pottery maker to royalty—and to the world: “You don't have to know a glaze from a slip to enjoy this.” —Kirkus Reviews   Born in Staffordshire, England, to a family of traditional potters in 1730, Josiah Wedgwood would grow up to revolutionize the industry, founding the company still world-renowned in the twenty-first century. When ...

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  • SOPHIA: MOTHER OF KINGS
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    SOPHIA: MOTHER OF KINGS
    CATHERINE CURZON
    From the Thirty Years’ War to the formation of Great Britain, the royal mother of the House of Hanover comes to life in this historical biography.   Princess Sophia of Hanover was born to greatness and yet fated to obscurity. The 1701 Act of Settlement made her the heiress presumptive to the thrones of England and Ireland, and yet she died mere weeks before becoming queen. Gran...

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  • THE NHS AT 70
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    THE NHS AT 70
    ELLEN WELCH
    At midnight on 5th July 1948, the National Health Service was born with the founding principle to be free at the point of use and based on clinical need rather than on a persons ability to pay. Seventy years since its formation, these core principles still hold true, although the world we now live in is a very different place to the post war era in which it was formed, and the ...

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