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  • The Worlds of Dorothy L. Sayers

    The Life and Works of the Crime Writer and Poet

    by Stephen Wade ...
    This biography explores Dorothy L. Sayers' legacy as a crime writer, feminist, scholar, and advertising pioneer, highlighting her lasting influence.Dorothy L. Sayers: the name conjures images of Lord Peter Wimsey's sleuthing adventures, and masterful translations of Dante. Yet, she was more than a literary luminary of the interwar Golden Age of crime fiction; she was a trailblazer, a feminist, and ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Dictionary of True Crime

    A Reference Guide to the Dark and Curious Crimes of British History

    by Stephen Wade ...
    A comprehensive A-Z guide to notorious and lesser-known extreme crimes, criminals, and legal cases from the 17th century to today.A Dictionary of True Crime is a guide to the most compelling cases of extreme and violent crime in the writing files, from the 17th century to present day. Amongst notorious criminals like Jack the Ripper and the Moors Murderers, lesser-known but provoking cases which ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From the Battle of Britain to the Korean War

    Serving in the Women's Voluntary Service and Auxiliary Air Force, 1940–1954

    by Stephen Wade ...
    In 1941, Beryl Baxter, a dressmaker from Grimsby, signed up to do her bit in the Battle of Britain. She was to serve as a plotter as aircraftswoman in the WAAF and, upon discharge in 1949 she began life as a welfare worker for the Women's Voluntary Service. Her postings included the Korean War, Japan, Hong Kong and Iraq. Throughout these years of service she fulfilled the roles of mother, sister ... Read more

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  • Jane Austens Aunt Behind Bars

    Writers and their Criminal Relatives and Associates, 17001900

    by Stephen Wade ...
    Writers between 1700 and 1900 were always likely to see the inside of British prisons if their work had any kind of radical element, or anything that could be considered libellous or seditious. Even the great and successful novelists, poets and journalists of those years fell foul of the law, or perhaps knew others who did so.‘Jane Austen’s Aunt Behind Bars: Writers and Their Criminal Relatives ... Read more

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  • Jane Austen’s Aunt Behind Bars

    Writers and their Criminal Relatives and Associates, 1700–1900

    by Stephen Wade ...
    The collected essays explore the lives of several writers in Georgian and Victorian Britain, in terms of their knowledge and experience of prison life. This book focuses on the lives of the writers themselves, or on the prison stretches endured by their relatives or acquaintances. Some of these writers were locked up for debt, while others were deprived of liberty for sedition or treason. Here the ... Read more

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  • The Justice Women

    The Female Presence in the Criminal Justice System 1800-1970

    by Stephen Wade ...
    The first policewomen were established during the Great War, but with no powers of arrest; the first women lawyers did not practise until the early twentieth century, and despite the fact that women worked as matrons in Victorian prisons, there were few professional women working as prison officers until the 1920s. The Justice Women traces the social history of the women working in courts, prisons ... Read more

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  • DNA Crime Investigations

    Solving Murder and Serious Crime Through DNA and Modern Forensics

    by Stephen Wade ...
    A crime historian explores groundbreaking cold-case investigations, the advent of DNA evidence, and its role in long-delayed convictions and exonerations.When geneticist, Professor Alec Jeffreys worked with Leicestershire police on the 1986 case against Colin Pitchfork—the first person convicted of murder based on DNA evidence—a revolution started in the application of forensic expertise. Since ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Halifax

    by Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    Calderdale has gone down in the annals of crime in England as the birthplace of Christie of Rillington Place, and as the haunt of the Yorkshire Ripper. But there is much more in the criminal history of the Halifax area to interest the reader with a taste for true crime. As a town with a shifting population of labour for the new mills of the Industrial Revolution, Halifax in the nineteenth century ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tracing Your Legal Ancestors

    A Guide for Family Historians

    by Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    The law had as much influence on our ancestors as it does on us today, and it occupies an extraordinary range of individuals, from eminent judges and barristers to clerks and minor officials. Yet, despite burgeoning interest in all aspects of history and ancestry, lawyers and legal history have rarely been looked at from the point of view of a family historian. And this is main purpose of Stephen ... Read more

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  • Britain's Most Notorious Hangmen

    by Stephen Wade ...
    A breathtaking history of Britain's executioners—from the seventeenth court of King Charles II to the UK's last official hangman of the twentieth century.In 1663, Jack Ketch delighted in his profession and gained notoriety not only because of those he executed—dukes and lords—but for how often he botched the job. Centuries later, in 1965, after nearly six hundred trips to the gallows, Albert ... Read more

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  • Grimsby in the Great War

    by Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    Grimsby in the Great War is a detailed account of how the experience of war impacted on the seaside town of Grimsby from the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, to the long-awaited peace of 1918.Grimsby and Cleethorpes were among the most vulnerable and exposed British towns in August 1914 when the Great War broke out. Situated on the North Sea, and facing the German Baltic fleet, their vessels ... Read more

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  • Notorious Prisons of the World

    by Stephen Wade ...
    A captivating history of doing time throughout the centuries: from England's medieval dungeons to America's supermax detention facilities.The first prisons were castle hellholes, places of neglect, oblivion, and slow death. Every civilization has had its dissenters, deviants, and political offenders, and so prisons became essential to the retention of power. As the centuries passed, and prisons ... Read more

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