Bloody British History: LeedsThe History Press, 1 feb 2013 - 96 páginas Phantom in the library! The bizarre true story of a Victorian haunting revealed! King cholera! The day that death came to the Dock family! Exploding mummies! The weirdest events of the blitz examined! A Yorkshire tragedy: Fifteenth-century murder at Calverley Hall! Leeds has one of the darkest histories on record. From the fatal Dripping Riot of 1865, sparked by the theft of two pounds of congealed fat, to the violin-playing killer Charles Peace, said to still haunt the city's prison cells, you will find all manner of horrible events inside this book. With plague and disease in the city slums, dreadful disasters in Roundhay Park, and riots in the city centre, this is the real story of Yorkshire's first city. |
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Title Page AD 51 The Battle for Brigantia | |
River of Blood | |
Hunted Down and Butchered By Their Own King | |
The Wandering White Monks | |
The Murdered King and the Forgotten Castle | |
Slaughter at Calverley Hall | |
AD 16421643 Tom Fairfaxs War The Taking of Leeds the Slaughter on the Moor and the Miracle at Wakefield | |
The Plague Comes to Leeds | |
The Black River Rises | |
The Yorkshire Witch | |
Invasion of the BodySnatchers | |
The Resurrectionists Return | |
King Cholera Strikes | |
Horror in Holbeck | |
Fearless Firefighters or Drunk on Duty? | |
Tragedy in Roundhay | |
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