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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and around Newcastle (Paperback)

P&S History > True Crime Photographic Books World History

By Maureen Anderson
Imprint: Pen & Sword True Crime
Series: Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781903425343
Published: 31st May 2004
Last Released: 20th September 2017

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Newcastle, Gateshead, Morpeth, Tynemouth and North and South Shields were towns of great wealth because of the many natural resources in the area. Certainly by the eighteenth century, Newcastle had become the most important commercial centre in the north, but, along with the wealth of the merchants and the factory owners there was the dire poverty of the working class. A pall of dark fog would linger over the buildings caused by the pollution spouting out from the chimneys of the ironworks and other industries. Bad housing, sanitation, overcrowding and low wages bred superstition, ignorance and illiteracy. Alcohol was often the only release the poorer classes had from their otherwise hum-drum daily drudge. It was not only the men who would spend all their money in the many beer houses, women also would drink themselves into oblivion, even if it meant their children went hungry. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and around Newcastle spans three hundred years of grisly events beginning with the execution of so-called witches. The stories will show the reader the depraved side of their fellow man and give an insight into the darkest side of the history of the area.

Three hundred years of historical misdeeds in and around Newcastle are covered in Maureen Anderson's compelling social history of the North East of England. Mesmerising!

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About Maureen Anderson

Maureen Anderson was born in Scotland but spent many years in Australia, returning to Teesside in the 1970s where she has written many local and social history books. She now lives at Seaton Carew.

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