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Bloody British History: Chelmsford

Author : Robert Hallmann

Publisher : The History Press

Page : 222 pages

File Size : 16,3 MB

Release : 2012-01-31

Category : History

ISBN : 0752482017

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Witches, martyrs, bodysnatchers, Zulus and rioting peasants! The Black Death in Chelmsford! The horrible true stories of the Moat Farm Murder and the death of Jael Denny! The terrible tragedy of the Great Flood of 1880! The incredible histories of Hylands House and Beaulieu! Nazi bombers over Chelmsford! Chelmsford has one of the darkest histories on record. From the skeletons lying underneath the city – which include a woolly mammoth – to the executions of thieves, witches, martyrs and murderers at Chelmsford's gaol, this book will change the way you see the town forever. Robert the Bruce was most likely born here; Bloody Mary Tudor lived here; infamous murderers Samuel Dougal and Thomas Drory died here. Including more than sixty rare illustrations, plus an eight-page colour section, read it if you dare!





Secret History of Southend

Author : Dee Gordon

Publisher : The History Press

Page : 199 pages

File Size : 16,62 MB

Release : 2014-02-03

Category : History

ISBN : 0750955457

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The Secret History of Southend offers the reader an off-the-beaten-track tour of the city’s landmarks and streets, revealing the forgotten stories of Southend – its people, its visitors, its history, its streets and its buildings. This book is filled with hundreds of little-known facts and historical anecdotes. From the arrival of the ‘Brides in the Bath’ murderer to the famous mountaineer who liked to live at the top of his building, this book will amuse, fascinate and inform all lovers of the area. Southend may not be an ancient town, but it is the largest in Essex, and has a history that may surprise residents and visitors alike. This delightful book delves deeper, bringing history and landscape to life.



Brainwash

Author : Dominic Streatfeild

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 585 pages

File Size : 16,40 MB

Release : 2008-05-27

Category : History

ISBN : 1466834501

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Vivid and disturbing, Brainwash is essential insight into the modern practice of interrogation and torture. With access to formerly classified documentation and interviews from the CIA, U.S. Army, MI5, MI6, and British Intelligence Corps, Dominic Streatfeild traces the evolution of mind control from its origins in the Cold War to the height of today's war on terror. Behind the front lines of every war in the world, prisoners are forced to sit for interrogation: manipulated, coerced, and sometimes tortured--often without ever being touched. Brainwash is a history of the methods intended to destroy and reconstruct the minds of captives, to extract information, convert dissidents, and lead peaceful men to kill and be killed.





Haunted Colleges & Universities of Massachusetts

Author : Renee Mallett

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 169 pages

File Size : 12,35 MB

Release : 2013-08-20

Category : History

ISBN : 1614239738

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Get an education in ghostly history—and meet the spirits that haunt schools in Boston and beyond. Includes photos! Among the throngs of students attending colleges and universities across the state of Massachusetts linger the apparitions of those who met their untimely ends on campus grounds. In 1953, Eugene O’Neill, an Irish American playwright, died in room 401 of the Sheraton Hotel—today a Boston University dormitory. Named Writer’s Corridor in O’Neill’s honor, the fourth floor draws students in search of creative inspiration and a sighting of the ghostly writer. A grief-stricken widow roams the halls of Winthrop Hall at Endicott College in her pink wedding gown. She threw herself from her widow’s walk after receiving news of her husband's death at sea, and is known to students today as the “pink lady.” Author Renee Mallett reveals the stories behind these “school spirits”—and offers eerie stories from over two dozen colleges and universities throughout the Bay State.







Secret History of Chelmsford

Author : Paul Wreyford

Publisher : The History Press

Page : 169 pages

File Size : 28,1 MB

Release : 2014-08-04

Category : History

ISBN : 0750958693

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Charles Dickens described Chelmsford as the ‘dullest’ place on earth and added that there was not a lot to see here. He was wrong.This book does not focus on what you already know about Chelmsford, but what you don’t. See the county town of Essex in a new light. Did you know Chelmsford was once close to staging the British Grand Prix, or that two churches fell down in the same year? Meet the jailer who ended up the wrong side of the bars, or marvel at Skeleton Man. You can even relive the day a bull went ‘shopping’ in the high street. Shocking, mysterious, curious and bizarre, Chelmsford has a rich history waiting to be truly discovered.



A History of Lowell

Author : Charles Cowley

Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag

Page : 254 pages

File Size : 19,73 MB

Release : 1868

Category : History

ISBN :

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Lowell was founded by the ‘Merrimac Manufacturing Company’ in 1822, and named after Francis C. Lowell. The village grew very rapidly from the first. In 1820 it was incorporated as a town and ten years later was chartered as a city. This book tells the story of this very important textile center from the beginning until the 1870s.