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Stephen Wade is a specialist in the history of crime and law.




86 Ebooks by Stephen Wade

Stephen Wade: Hanged at Lincoln
This intriguing book gathers together the stories of 120 criminals hanged at both Lincoln Castle Prison and HMP Lincoln on Greetwell Road between 1203 and 1961. The condemned featured here range from …
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€9.99
Stephen Wade: Square Mile Bobbies
Square Mile Bobbies is a history and casebook of the City of London Police between 1839, when the force was first established after general recognition that London was not being policed effectively, …
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€9.99
Stephen Wade: A Thief in the Night
London, 1890: A group of seven amateur criminologists based at the Septimus Club in Piccadilly set out to investigate a series of mysterious crimes committed in the capital. Including a professor, a …
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€5.49
Stephen Wade: Victoria’s Spymasters
Covering the lives and achievements of five English intelligence officers involved in wars at home and abroad between 1870 and 1918, this exceptionally researched book offers an insight into spying …
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€18.49
Stephen Wade: Lincolnshire Murders
The murder cases in this book are a mixture of classic narratives of jealousy, elimination and passion, now retold from new perspectives and with more research. The author also includes some …
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€13.99
Stephen Wade: Plain Clothes and Sleuths
The detective is a familiar figure in British history. This work looks at famous cases such as the Ripper murders and the beginnings of the Special Branch and Detective Branch of Scotland Yard. This …
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€13.99
Stephen Wade: Jane Austen’s Aunt Behind Bars
Writers between 1700 and 1900 were always likely to see the inside of British prisons if their work had any kind of radical element, or anything that could be considered libellous or seditious. Even …
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€10.99
Stephen Wade: Spies in the Empire
There have been a great many books written on military intelligence and the secret services rooted in the twentieth century; however there is very little covering the activities of the men involved i …
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€16.99
Stephen Wade: Jane Austen’s Aunt Behind Bars
Writers between 1700 and 1900 were always likely to see the inside of British prisons if their work had any kind of radical element, or anything that could be considered libellous or seditious. Even …
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€10.99
Stephen Wade: Jewish American Literature since 1945
Jewish American writing is an exciting and controversial genre within post-war literature. Jewish American Literature since 1945 offers a student guide to the major writers, their key works, and …
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€43.46
Stephen Wade: Jewish American Literature since 1945
Jewish American writing is an exciting and controversial genre within post-war literature. Jewish American Literature since 1945 offers a student guide to the major writers, their key works, and …
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€43.83
Stephen Wade: Count of Scotland Yard
Bert Hannam was a dapper, charismatic figure in the Scotland Yard of the post-war years. As a young sergeant he made his name in London, and soon became a presence in the world of criminal …
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€17.21
Stephen Wade: Harrogate & Ripon in the Great War
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 …
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€5.00
Wade Stephen Wade: Leeds in the Great War
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 …
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€4.98
Wade Stephen Wade: Leeds in the Great War
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 …
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€4.98
Stephen Wade: Going to Extremes
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 …
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€6.22
Stephen Wade: Leeds at War, 1939-45
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 …
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€5.00
Stephen Wade: Justice Women
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 …
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€4.99
Stephen Wade: Grimsby in the Great War
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 …
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€4.99
Stephen Wade: Tales from the Big House: Normanby Hall
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 …
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€5.04
Stephen Wade: Tales from the Big House: Normanby Hall
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 …
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€5.01
Stephen Wade: Lost to the Sea, Britain’s Vanished Coastal Communities
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 …
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€6.23
Stephen Wade: Lost to the Sea, Britain’s Vanished Coastal Communities
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 …
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€6.23
Stephen Wade: Lost to the Sea, Britain’s Vanished Coastal Communities
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 …
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€6.20
Stephen Wade: Lost to the Sea, Britain’s Vanished Coastal Communities
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 …
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€6.25
Stephen Wade: Write Your Self
We live in an age of information, but very little of this is about the individual. Too often we communicate in no more than ready-made cliches. But now more than ever there is a need to know …
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€7.47
Stephen Wade: Write Your Self
We live in an age of information, but very little of this is about the individual. Too often we communicate in no more than ready-made cliches. But now more than ever there is a need to know …
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€7.48
Stephen Wade: Passion for the Park
Passion for the Park is a celebration of the ordinary lover of the beautiful game, the dedicated lads who turn out week after week in the hope of beating another works or pub team. In Park Football …
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€8.73
Stephen Wade: Passion for the Park
Passion for the Park is a celebration of the ordinary lover of the beautiful game, the dedicated lads who turn out week after week in the hope of beating another works or pub team. In Park Football …
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€8.73
Stephen Wade: Famous Prisoners of Wormwood Scrubs
Wormwood Scrubs is Britain’s most ‘media-soaked’ prison. Its celebrity inmates have provided the tabloids with many good stories, from Rolling Stone Keith Richards – banged up for drugs offences – to …
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€8.11
Stephen Wade: Famous Prisoners of Wormwood Scrubs
Wormwood Scrubs is Britain’s most ‘media-soaked’ prison. Its celebrity inmates have provided the tabloids with many good stories, from Rolling Stone Keith Richards – banged up for drugs offences – to …
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€8.13
Stephen Wade: Victorian Somebody
In the 1880s, George Grossmith was the dazzling comic star of Gilbert and Sullivan’s immensely popular Savoy operas. London theatregoers waited excitedly for the next production, knowing that George …
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€7.48
Stephen Wade: Victorian Somebody
In the 1880s, George Grossmith was the dazzling comic star of Gilbert and Sullivan’s immensely popular Savoy operas. London theatregoers waited excitedly for the next production, knowing that George …
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€7.50
Wade Stephen Wade: Beautiful Music All Around Us
The Beautiful Music All Around Us presents the extraordinarily rich backstories of thirteen performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942 in locations reaching f …
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€18.69
Stephen Wade: Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Liverpool
The disturbing, criminal history of Britain’s “World Capital City of Pop”—home of murderers, thieves, bodysnatchers . . . and The Beatles.   The city of …
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€4.98
Stephen Wade: Air Raid Shelters of the Second World War
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 …
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€6.24
Stephen Wade: Britain’s Most Notorious Prisoners
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 …
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€3.73
Stephen Wade: Empire and Espionage
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 …
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€4.98
Stephen Wade: Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In Dublin
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 centerthe …
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€4.95
Stephen Wade: DNA Crime Investigations
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 …
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€4.95
Stephen Wade: Britain’s Most Notorious Hangmen
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 …
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€3.75
Dick Spottswood: Banjo on the Mountain
Wade Mainer (b. 1907) is believed to be the longest-lived country entertainer ever. His banjo lessons began in childhood and he played informally into his adult years, when he joined his brother, …
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€27.99
Stephen Wade: Notorious Prisons of the World
A captivating history of doing time throughout the centuries: from England’s medieval dungeons to America’s supermax detention facilities.   The first prisons were castle hellholes, …
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€5.00
Stephen Wade: Wharncliffe A-Z of Yorkshire Murder
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 …
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€3.73
Stephen Wade: Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Halifax
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 …
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€5.00
Stephen Wade: Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Scunthorpe
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 …
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€5.00
Stephen Wade: Empire and Espionage
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 …
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€4.96
Stephen Wade: Aspects of Huddersfield 2
"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 …
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€5.00
Stephen Wade: Yorkshire’s Murderous Women
The criminal history of Yorkshire has its share of nasty and brutal murders and the majority of these killers have been men. Statistics show that most homicides are men. But the records over the …
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€5.00
Stephen Wade: Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Doncaster
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 …
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€4.99
Stephen Wade: Air Raid Shelters of the Second World War
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 …
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€6.26
Stephen Wade: Yorkshire’s Murderous Women
Historical accounts of Englishwomen who have killed, their varying motives, and their final fates.   Yorkshire history has its share of nasty and brutal murders, and the majority of these …
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€4.98
Stephen Wade: Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Doncaster
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 …
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€4.99
Stephen Wade: Notorious Murders of the Twentieth Century
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 …
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€6.24
Stephen Wade: Tracing Your Criminal Ancestors
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 …
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€6.23
Stephen Wade: Tracing Your Legal Ancestors
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, …
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€6.22
Stuart Gibbon & Stephen Wade: Comprehensive Guide To Arrest And Detention
A Comprehensive Guide to Arrest and Detention is an essential research companion for crime writers and readers. Crime historian Stephen Wade and former detective Stuart Gibbon examine the subjects of …
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€7.46
Stephen Wade: Notorious Murders of the Twentieth Century
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 …
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€6.25
Stuart Gibbon & Stephen Wade: Comprehensive Guide To Drink And Disorder
A Comprehensive Guide to Drink and Disorder is an essential research companion for crime writers and readers. Crime historian Stephen Wade and former detective Stuart Gibbon examine the subjects of …
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€7.47
Stephen Wade: Cops, Villains And Trials
Cops, Villains and Trials is a collection of case studies and background essays intended to provide guidance and advice for family and social historians. It aims to deal with sources and narratives, …
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€7.49
Stuart Gibbon & Stephen Wade: Comprehensive Guide To Burglary And Robbery
A Comprehensive Guide to Burglary and Robbery is an essential research companion for crime writers and readers. Crime historian Stephen Wade and former detective Stuart Gibbon examine the subjects of …
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€7.43
Stephen Wade & Kate Walker: Emerald Guide To Being A Professional Writer
Being a Professional Writer, by Stephen Wade and Kate Walker, builds on the previous edition and is a guide to all major aspects of working as a full time writer. It is wide ranging and covers all …
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€7.56
Dick Spottswood: Banjo on the Mountain
Wade Mainer (b. 1907) is believed to be the longest-lived country entertainer ever. His banjo lessons began in childhood and he played informally into his adult years, when he joined his brother, …
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€31.12
Stuart Gibbon & Stephen Wade: Straightforward Guide To Catching A Killer
Crime historian Stephen Wade and former detective Stuart Gibbon examine the investigation of Murder from a historical and modern-day perspective, with reference to criminal law, police procedure and …
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€7.47
Marina Bokelman & David Evans: Going Up the Country
At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David Evans, young graduate students from California, made two trips to Louisiana and Mississippi and short trips in their home state to do …
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€32.99
Marina Bokelman & David Evans: Going Up the Country
At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David Evans, young graduate students from California, made two trips to Louisiana and Mississippi and short trips in their home state to do …
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€37.51
Stephen Wade: Tracing Your Prisoner Ancestors
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 …
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€18.68
Stephen Wade: Tracing Your Prisoner Ancestors
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 …
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€18.68
Stuart Gibbon & Stephen Wade: Straightforward Guide To The Crime Writers Casebook
A Straightforward Guide to The Crime Writer”s Casebook, Revised Edition, is a reference work for all crime writers and is an essential companion for research into modern police procedure as well as …
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€8.68
Stuart Gibbon & Stephen Wade: Straightforward Guide To Being A Detective
A Straightforward Guide to Being a Detective An A-Z Readers” and Writers” Guide to Detective Work Past and Present, REVISED EDITION is an essential research companion for all writers of crime …
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€8.83
Stephen Wade: Straightforward Guide To Freelance Writing
This latest book in the Straightforward Guides Series A Guide to Freelance Writing, Revised Edition, by Stephen Wade, is the perfect book for those who wish to concentrate on writing features, …
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€7.47
Stephen Wade: DNA Crime Investigations
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 …
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€5.00
Stephen Wade: Leeds at War, 1939-45
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 …
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€4.99
Stephen Wade: A Straightforward Guide To Creative Writing
A Straightforward Guide to Creative Writing, Revised Edition, updates and builds on the previous edition by introducing new techniques and practical workshops. The reader is given a firm grounding in …
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€7.51
Stephen Wade: A Straightforward Guide To Writing Performance Poetry
A Straightforward Guide to Writing Performance Poetry is the perfect book for those who wish to develop their poetry and performance skills. The reader is given a firm grounding in the art of …
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€7.47
Stephen Wade: Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Liverpool
The disturbing, criminal history of Britain’s “World Capital City of Pop”—home of murderers, thieves, bodysnatchers . . . and The Beatles.   The city of …
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English
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€4.99
Stephen Wade: Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Scunthorpe
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 …
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English
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€5.00
Stephen Wade: Aspects of Huddersfield 2
"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 …
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€5.00