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Bobby On The Beat : The True Story of a 1950s Policewoman
Bobby On The Beat : The True Story of a 1950s Policewoman
A fascinating slice of 1950s life Pamela Rhodes, tells her story of life as a policewoman in Bobby on the Beat. When Pam joined in the 1950s the force's female r...
Britain's Most Notorious Prisoners
Britain's Most Notorious Prisoners
Prison is an unknown world for most of us. It is a place where time stops and lives are held in suspension, taken out of circulation. Amongst the gaol population are the dangerous inma...
Capital Crimes : Seven Centuries of London Life and Murder
Capital Crimes : Seven Centuries of London Life and Murder
Over seven centuries London has changed dramatically - from walled medieval settlement to bustling modern metropolis. But throughout its history there has been ...
Crime Archive:The Krays
Crime Archive:The Krays
Ronnie and Reggie Kray were kings of the Sixties underworld – gangland bosses whose escalating crimes of fraud, extortion, violence and murder spanned over a decade in London’s East End. Comp...
Doctor Crippen
Doctor Crippen
In 1910 Cora Crippen, an unsuccessful music-hall artiste known as Belle Elmore, was murdered by her husband Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, an American quack doctor, at their London home. During a search of the...
John Christie of Rillington Place
John Christie of Rillington Place : Biography of a Serial Killer
Sixty years ago, the discovery of bodies at 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill, London, led to one of the most sensational, shocking and controversial se...
Murder On The High Seas
Murder On The High Seas
Great Britain has for many centuries been one of the world's great sea-faring nations. The Royal Navy has defended her territory and the merchant fleet has been instrumental in creating the natio...
Scourge Of Soho
Scourge of Soho : The Controversial Career of SAS Hero Detective Sergeant Harry Challenor MM
Detective Sergeant Harry Challenor is undoubtedly one of the most controversial policeman of all time. Born into grinding pove...
Square Mile Bobbies 1839-1949
Square Mile Bobbies 1839-1949
"Square Mile Bobbies" is a history and casebook of the City of London Police between 1839, when the force was first established after general recognition that London was not being policed e...
The Curious Habits Of Doctor Adams
Curious Habits of Doctor Adams: a 1950s Murder Mystery
'Was rich Mrs Gertrude Hullett murdered at her luxurious 15-room home on Beachy Head? Detectives are tonight trying to establish the cause of the 50-year-old widow'...
The Disinherited
The Disinherited : A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal
In the small hours of the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. It was only when the identity...
The Great Train Robbery : A New History
The Great Train Robbery : A New History
On 8 August 1963, just about 30 miles north of London, a red light brought the 'Up' Travelling Post Office to a halt. A few minutes later the locomotive and the first two carriage...
The Great War, Memory And Ritual
The Great War, Memory and Ritual : Commemoration in the City & East London 1916-39
The modern idea that the Great War was regarded as a futile waste of life by British society in the disillusioned 1920s and 1930s is her...
Undercover : The Truse Story of Britain's Secret Police
Undercover : The True Story of Britain's Secret Police
"Undercover lays bare the deceit, betrayal and cold-blooded violation practised again and again by undercover police officers - troubling, timely and brilliantly ex...
Violent London : 2000 Years of Riots,Rebels and Revolts
Violent London : 2000 Years of Riots,Rebels and Revolts
This title charts the story of London through centuries of popular insurrection and protest. It is a story of political acitivism expressed in street fighting and ...