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Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain, Adams, Bless
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- ISBN
- 8500223
- Publication Name
- William Collins
- Book Title
- Great and Horrible News! : Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins The Limited
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Sociology / General, Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603), Criminals & Outlaws
- Item Width
- 5.7in
- Item Weight
- 14.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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'Grimly fascinating ... engrossing' Daily Mail NINE HISTORIC CRIMES. ONE FAMILIAR OBSESSION. In early modern England, murder truly was most foul. Trials were gossipy events packed to the rafters with noisome spectators. Executions were public proceedings which promised not only gore, but desperate confessions and the grandest, most righteous human drama. Bookshops saw grisly stories of crime and death sell like hot cakes. This history unfolds the true stories of murder, criminal investigation, early forensic techniques, high court trials and so much more. In thrilling narrative, we follow a fugitive killer through the streets of London, citizen detectives clamouring to help officials close the net. We untangle the mystery of a suspected staged suicide through the newly emerging science of forensic pathology. We see a mother trying to clear her dead daughter's name while other women faced the accusations - sometimes true and sometimes not - of murdering their own children. These stories are pieced together from original research using coroner's inquests, court records, parish archives, letters, diaries and the cheap street pamphlets that proliferated to satisfy a voracious public. These intensely personal stories portray the lives of real people as they confronted the extraordinary crises of murder, infanticide, miscarriage and suicide. Many historical laws and attitudes concerning death and murder may strike us as exceptionally cruel, and yet many still remind us that some things never change: we are still fascinated by narratives of murder and true crime, murder trials today continue to be grand public spectacles, female killers are frequently cast as aberrant objects of public hatred and sexual desire, and suicide remains a sin within many religious organisations and was a crime in England until the 1960s. Great and Horrible News! explores the strange history of death and murder in early modern England, yet the stories within may appear shockingly familiar.
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Publisher
HarperCollins The Limited
ISBN-10
0008500223
ISBN-13
9780008500221
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28058807094
Product Key Features
Book Title
Great and Horrible News! : Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Sociology / General, Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603), Criminals & Outlaws
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.7in
Item Weight
14.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hv6535
Reviews
Early Praise for Great and Horrible News: 'Perfect for fans of true-crime, this is a bone-chilling and brilliantly researched account of murder, cruelty, and scandal in Tudor and Stuart Britain. I couldn't put it down, but I sincerely regret reading it alone in the countryside. A fantastic debut' Gareth Russell, author of Do Let's Have Another Drink
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Trade
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Yes
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