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Discover 366 gruesome tales from Birminghams past. With appalling accidents, frightful crimes and extraordinary deaths, theres something to surprise even the most hardened reader. Featured here is the man who deliberately swallowed his wooden walking stick, a nineteenth-century horsemeat scandal, a drunken dispute that led to a man being stabbed in the eye with a table fork, and the lightning storm which hit a fog-signalling factory, setting off 43,000 explosions. True accounts of fires, catastrophes, murders, executions and a variety of nasty goings-on in the Birmingham of yesteryear await you within.

A Grim Almanac of Glasgow is a day-by-day catalogue of 366 ghastly tales from around the city. Full of dreadful deeds, strange disappearances and a multitude of mysteries, this almanac explores the darker side of Glasgows past. Here are stories of tragedy, torment and the truly unfortunate with diverse tales of brutal murders, tragic suicides, and macabre events, including the experiments of Dr Andrew Ure, who, in 1818, applied electricity to the dead body of an executed murderer, animating the corpse and convincing spectators that the murderer had come back to life! All these, plus tales of fires, explosions and bizarre accidents, are here. Generously illustrated, this chronicle is an entertaining and readable record of Glasgows grim past. Read on... if you dare!

A Grim Almanac of Herefordshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 365 ghastly tales from around the county. Full of dreadful deeds, strange disappearances and a multitude of mysteries, this almanac explores the darker side of Herefordshires past. Here are stories of tragedy, torment and the truly unfortunate with diverse tales of murderers, bodysnatchers, duelists, poachers, rioters and rebels. Joining them are accounts of tragic suicides, accidents and bizarre deaths, including William Prosser, who died in Clodock in 1893 as the result of a practical joke; the farmer bitten to death by his horse in 1887; and the young man from Colwall who allegedly sat on a spike. Also here is the case of a Yorkshire tramp, whose body was found in Weobley in 1894, and the murders and suicide of Charles Hankins and his two young children in Ledbury in 1896. Some killers were lucky to get away with charges of manslaughter, such as Thomas Carlyle, who shot a coachman near Leominster in 1871, and George Hatton, who rid himself of a nagging wife near Ross in 1893. All these, plus tales of fires, catastrophes, explosions and disasters, are here. Generously illustrated, this chronicle is an entertaining and readable record of Herefordshires grim past. Read on... if you dare!

Jostling for position in this cornucopia of the criminal and the curious are diverse tales of baby farmers, garrotters, murderers, poisoners, prostitutes, pimps, rioters and rebels. Other tales tell of those who walked the poverty-stricken streets of the abyss, trying to earn a few honest coppers by the most unusual and desperate occupations, from tater man to tosher. This colourful cast of characters is accompanied by accounts of prisons and punishments, as well as a liberal smattering of funerals, executions, disasters and bizarre events. If its horrible, if its ghastly, if its strange, its here - and if you have the stomach for it, then read on.

A Grim Almanac of Manchester collects together 365 of the darkest tales from Manchesters history terrifying true tales of riot, assault, murder and crime, of slums, disease, death and disaster. Compiled by Manchester historian and genealogist Michala Hume, this book is filled with amazing historical horrors ranging from the bizarre such as the night a poisoned cake caused a sickness to sweep through Ancoats to the horrific, like the tragic time twenty-three people were crushed to death attempting to escape a fire in the overcrowded Victoria Music Hall. Some of these incidents were resolved, but many remain mysteries to this day. Generously illustrated, this chronicle is an entertaining and absorbing record of Manchesters grim past. Read on if you dare!

In 1826 resurrection men stole thirty bodies from the graveyard of St Marys Church in Nottingham to sell to unscrupulous medical establishments in London. It emerged they had been shipping their cargo to the capital in wicker baskets booked aboard stagecoaches, but they were never caught. In 1908 Mansfield tattooist Arthur Scott attacked a customer who refused to pay his bill. Scott tracked his quarry down after two days and attempted to shoot him. He failed, but it didnt take the police long to find Scott - the only tattooist in Mansfield. On 7 June 1865 Thomas Whittaker left the bar of a Newark pub to visit the toilet in the backyard. As he returned he slipped from the top of a flight of wooden stairs and fell head first into a water butt. He drowned. When Retford eccentric John Clifton died in 1816 he left a deadly legacy. He had a life-long fascination for fireworks and made them for his friends. While sorting through Johns things his sister found a tin of black powder, which she thought was worthless, and threw it on the fire. The resulting explosion killed her and demolished the house.A Grim Almanac of Nottinghamshire is a collection of stories from the countys past, some bizarre, some fascinating, some macabre all absorbing. Revealed here are the dark corners of Nottinghamshire, where witches, body snatchers, highwaymen and murderers have stalked. Within the Almanacs pages we plumb the depths of past despair and peer over the rim of that bottomless chasm where demons lurk. Author Kevin Turton has pored over the historic records of the county to bring together these extraordinary accounts of past events.

A Grim Almanac of Shropshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 366 macabre moments from the countys past. Featured here are such diverse tales as mining disasters, suicides, miscarriages of justice, axe murders, executions and tragic accidents, including the Meadow Pit Mining Tragedy of 1810, when four men suffocated from sulphur fumes after the pit caught fire, and the mysterious disappearance of a Lancaster bomber - and its crew - over Shropshire more than sixty years ago. Generously illustrated, this chronicle is an entertaining and readable record of Shropshires grim past. Read on... if you dare!

A Grim Almanac of South Yorkshire is a collection of stories from the countys past, some bizarre, some fascinating, some macabre, but all equally absorbing. Revealed here are the dark corners of the county, where witches, body snatchers, highwaymen and murderers, in whatever guise, have stalked. Accompanying this cast of gruesome characters are old superstitions, omens, strange beliefs and long-forgotten remedies for all manner of ailments. Within the Almanacs pages we visit the dark side, plumb the depths of past despair and peer over the rim of that bottomless chasm where demons lurk, with only a candles light to see by... metaphorically speaking of course. You are invited to take that journey, if you are brave enough, and meet some of the people that populated the past... while author Kevin Turton holds the candle at arms length.

A Grim Almanac of Staffordshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 366 ghastly tales from around the county. Full of dreadful deeds, strange disappearances and a multitude of murders, this almanac explores the darker side of Staffordshires past. Here are stories of tragedy, torment and the truly unfortunate with diverse tales of freak weather, bizarre deaths and terrible accidents, including the young girl cut to pieces by a machinery explosion, the tragic deaths of 155 men in the Minnie Pit disaster of 1918, and the theatre performance where the gun really did go off, mangling the actors hand and causing a severed finger to fly across the stage. Uncover tales of fires, catastrophes, suicides, thefts and executions its all here. Generously illustrated, this chronicle is an entertaining and readable record of Staffordshires grim past. Read on ... if you dare!

This day-by-day account of gruesome tales from Yorks past reveals the seedy underbelly of what was historically the most important city in the North. Inside these pages you will find true stories of murder and intrigue, battles and conspiracies, witches and religious martyrs, gruesome executions and horrible accidents. Read about Margaret Clitherow, tortured to death for her beliefs, Richard Scrope, the archbishop executed for treason, and of course the notorious highwayman Richard Dick Turpin and his moonlight ride. If you have ever wondered what nasty goings-on occurred in the York of yesteryear, then read on if you dare!

A DEVASTADORA REPORTAGEM HISTÓRICA SOBRE A PARANOIA DAS CAMPANHAS PARA PROIBIR A LEITURA DE QUADRINHOS NO BRASIL ENTRE AS DÉCADAS DE 1930 E 1960.Adolfo Aizen e Roberto Marinho, principais personagens desta historia, so os maiores responsaveis pela chegada ao Brasil de uma novidade americana que a partir dos anos de 1930 se tornou uma febre entre crianças e adolescentes e mobilizou presidentes da Republica, juristas, parlamentares, intelectuais, educadores, escritores, magnatas e artistas: as historias em quadrinhos.Embora fizessem a festa da garotada e de editores como Aizen e Marinho, os gibis causavam arrepios nos guardies da moral, polemistas de planto, tubares da imprensa e raposas da politica, que, em coro, pediam censura urgente as revistinhas "se no quisermos fazer das proximas geraçes brasileiras sucessivas fornadas de cretinos", na sentença de Carlos Lacerda. Outros viam potenciais educativos nos gibis: Gilberto Freyre queria uma verso da Constituiço de 1946 em quadrinhos para difundir os direitos dos cidados brasileiros.Grandes figuras da vida nacional, entre 1933 e 1964, se engajaram na heroica Guerra dos Gibis. Do Suplemento Infantil de Adolfo Aizen aos catecismos de Carlos Zefiro, Gonçalo Junior narra uma aventura repleta de absurdos, intolerancia, preconceito e ferocidade, feita de herois e viles de papel e de carne e osso.Agora, a consagrada saga de Gonçalo Junior volta em ediço integral, revista e ampliada pela Conrad. Aventure-se neste livro inesquecivel.

O livro A hipnose sem segredos, do psicólogo André Percia traz uma compilação de estudos sobre as obras de Richard Bandler, Steve G. Jones, Paul Mckenna, Sofia Bauer, Stephen Gilligan entre outros gr

Saudade é a palavra que eu defino para este foto-livro A Ilha do Governador que Não Vivi – Um Século de Fotos. Sim, saudade de um tempo em que não vivi. Esta obra é mais um sonho realizado: são 800 f

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