Bloody British History: East End
Erschienen am 3. August 2015
96 Seiten
978-0-7509-6560-6 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Pustules and plague corpses in Smithfield. Women disguised in men's clothing. A shark in the Thames. London's East End has a history soaked in blood. The Great Plague of London can be traced to its streets; Jack the Ripper prowled here, as did the Ratcliffe Highway murderer and the gunmen of the famous Sidney Street siege. Communists, fascists, suffragettes and the Skeleton Army have all fought through the streets of the East End, before it weathered the worst that the Nazi bombers could throw at it during the dark days of the Blitz. Historically viewed as a 'den of iniquity', and once teeming with opium dens, bodysnatchers and paupers, this is a story of dreadful odds and of determination, filled with horror, grim British humour and hundreds of incredible years of history.
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
Stroud
Großbritannien
Illustrationen
60 Illustrations, black and white
Dateigröße
5,81 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7509-6560-6 (9780750965606)
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Dr Samantha L Bird wrote her thesis, published in 2009 as Stepney: Profile of a London Borough, on the history of London's East End. During her research she came across a vast quantity of local pictures and images, many of which may be seen in her book Stepney Then & Now (2013).
Inhalt
- Intro
- Title
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- 600 BC Early History
- AD 43 The Romans
- AD 450 The Saxons
- AD 909-988 St Dunstan and the Devil
- AD 1078 The Building of the Tower of London and the Magna Carta
- AD 1329 The Naming of St Mary Matfelon
- AD 1348 The Black Death
- AD 1381 The Peasants' Revolt
- AD 1483 The Murdered Princes
- AD 1610-1648 Wapping's Famous Soldier: Colonel Thomas Rainsborough
- AD 1649 Charles I's Executioner: Richard Brandon
- AD 1652 The Witch of Wapping
- AD 1683 The Earl of Essex: Suicide or Murder?
- AD 1701 Pirate and Privateer: William Kidd
- AD 1702-1724 Highwayman, Thief and Escapologist: Jack Sheppard
- AD 1723-1792 Young Amazon Snell: Hannah Snell
- AD 1754-1817 William Bligh: Mutiny on the Bounty
- AD 1811 Calamity and Death: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders
- AD 1831 Resurrectionists: Bishop, Head and May
- AD 1875 The Murder of Harriet Lane
- AD 1887 The Whitechapel Mystery: Israel Lipski
- AD 1888 The Whitechapel Murders
- AD 1910-1911 The Houndsditch Murders and the Siege of Sidney Street
- AD 1917 Air Raid on Upper North Street School
- AD 1936 The Battle of Cable Street
- AD 1943 Bethnal Green Shelter Disaster
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Copyright
