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This fascinating, and often disturbing, book illustrated how easy it was to be committed to an asylum. The treatments that patients were subjected to so early on in our understanding of mental health care with nothing short of barbaric. This didn't feel to me to be a book you would read in one sitting, but more of something you would dip in and out of as you go.
NetGalley, John Dixon

This fascinating, and often disturbing, book illustrated how easy it was to be committed to an asylum. The treatments that patients were subjected to so early on in our understanding of mental health care with nothing short of barbaric. This didn't feel to me to be a book you would read in one sitting, but more of something you would dip in and out of as you go.
NetGalley, John Dixon

[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars This book starts out at the time of Victoria’s birth. Since, at the time of her birth, she was fifth in line for the British throne, she was not expected to ascend to the throne. However, a series of unfortunate deaths led to her becoming Queen Victoria when she was one month shy of her eighteenth birthday. She was to sit on the throne for sixty-three years and seven months. Her reign led its name to the “Victorian Age.” This book has fantastic pictures of various palaces and other places of interest related to Victoria’s reign. It also has copious footnotes, so that the reader may further explore her life and times. It outlines the assassination attempts on her life, of which there were many. It describes the fairytale story of her romance with Prince Albert, a cousin of hers. It sounds absolutely wonderful. The reader is told about her nine children, beginning with her first daughter Victoria or “Vicky.” (Although she hated being pregnant.).. Read more
NetGalley, Joyce Fox

[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars This book starts out at the time of Victoria’s birth. Since, at the time of her birth, she was fifth in line for the British throne, she was not expected to ascend to the throne. However, a series of unfortunate deaths led to her becoming Queen Victoria when she was one month shy of her eighteenth birthday. She was to sit on the throne for sixty-three years and seven months. Her reign led its name to the “Victorian Age.” This book has fantastic pictures of various palaces and other places of interest related to Victoria’s reign. It also has copious footnotes, so that the reader may further explore her life and times. It outlines the assassination attempts on her life, of which there were many. It describes the fairytale story of her romance with Prince Albert, a cousin of hers. It sounds absolutely wonderful. The reader is told about her nine children, beginning with her first daughter Victoria or “Vicky.” (Although she hated being pregnant.).. Read more
NetGalley, Joyce Fox

Robin Jones’ writing style tells a complex story in way that is both easy to follow and a pleasure to read. Altogether it is a pleasing work, and recommended.
Ffestiniog Railway Magazine, Autumn 2021

Robin Jones’ writing style tells a complex story in way that is both easy to follow and a pleasure to read. Altogether it is a pleasing work, and recommended.
Ffestiniog Railway Magazine, Autumn 2021

Essential reading and a valuable resource for research, for anyone whose ancestors worked in the coal mining industry or researching the history of South Yorkshire.
Village Publications (Bradway Bugle)

Essential reading and a valuable resource for research, for anyone whose ancestors worked in the coal mining industry or researching the history of South Yorkshire.
Village Publications (Bradway Bugle)

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The Victorian Guide to Sex

An exciting factual romp through sexual desire, practises and deviance in the Victorian era. The Victorian Guide to Sex will reveal advice and ideas on sexuality from the Victorian period. Drawing on both satirical and real life events from the period, it explores every facet of sexuality that the Victorians encountered. Reproducing original advertisements… Read more...

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British Music Hall

'The music hall ...had no place for reticence; it was downright, it shouted, it made noise, it enjoyed itself and made the people enjoy themselves as well.' W.J. MACQUEEN POPE Music Hall lies at the root of all modern popular entertainment. With stars such as Marie Lloyd, Harry Lauder and Dan Leno, it reached its glorious, brassy height between 1890… Read more...

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The Sinking of RMS Tayleur

'The moment they fell into the water the waves caught them and dashed them violently against the rocks, and the survivors on shore could perceive the unfortunate creatures...struggling amidst the waves, and one by one sinking under them.' (Hereford Times, 28 January 1854) The wrecking of the RMS Tayleur made headlines nearly 60 years before the Titanic.… Read more...

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Breach of Promise to Marry

'The marriage day was fixed, the wedding dresses were bought, the wedding tour was planned out, the wedding guests were invited. The day came but not the bridegroom...' While Dickens' embittered spinster Miss Havisham stopped all her clocks on her wedding day and 'never since looked upon the light of day', the reality was much brighter for thousands… Read more...

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Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer

For a hundred and twenty years, the identity of the Whitechapel murderer known to us as Jack the Ripper has both eluded us and spawned a veritable industry of speculation. This book names him. Mad doctors, Russian lunatics, bungling midwives, railway policemen, failed barristers, weird artists, royal princes and white-eyed men. All of these and more… Read more...

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Mary Ann Cotton - Dark Angel

A female thief, with four husbands, a lover and, reportedly, over twelve children, is arrested and tried for the murder of her step-son in 1872, turning the small village of West Auckland in County Durham upside down. Other bodies are exhumed and when they are found to contain arsenic, she is suspected of their murder as well. The perpetrator, Mary… Read more...

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Angel Meadow

'It is all free fighting here. Even some of the windows do not open, so it is useless to cry for help. Dampness and misery, violence and wrong, have left their handwriting in perfectly legible characters on the walls.' - Manchester Guardian, 1870 Step into the Victorian underworld of Angel Meadow, the vilest and most dangerous slum of the Industrial… Read more...

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Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer

For a hundred and twenty years, the identity of the Whitechapel murderer known to us as Jack the Ripper has both eluded us and spawned a veritable industry of speculation. This book names him. Mad doctors, Russian lunatics, bungling midwives, railway policemen, failed barristers, weird artists, royal princes and white-eyed men. All of these and more… Read more...

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