Takes the reader on a sinister journey from the religious persecutions of Queen Mary's time to the twentieth century, meeting villains, cut-throats, arsonists and lunatics along the way. The book is based on original research and recalls many grisly events and sad or unsavoury individuals whose fate has hitherto been forgotten.
“ English pre - industrial urban economies , ” in The Tudor and Stuart town : a reader in English urban history , 1530–1688 , 63–73 . Edited by Jonathan Barry . New York : Longman , 1990 . “ Household size and structure in early ...
indulgence , the street - corner loitering , prostitution and numerous other indications that the values and approved way of life of Victorian England were being widely disregarded among the classes constituting the majority of its ...
... Essex in the Age of Enlightenment (Lulu: 2009). Therefore these three volumes of Colchester People: The John Bensusan Butt Biographical Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century Colchester, are the final stage in this project. Volumes 1 and 2 ...