Portsmouth Point

Portsmouth Point
Author: Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1948-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780853231394

Portsmouth Point has always been synonymous with British Naval history, inspiring everything from William Walton's overture to Rowlandson's watercolor. Portsmouth Point: The British Navy in Fiction, 1793-1815 is a timeless anthology of seafaring action that offers a fascinating glimpse of British naval life set against the thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Each of the stories here covers a distinct part of everyday life on the high seas during wartime, from the daily routines of officers and men on the lower deck to the mysteries of rigging and the perilous nuances of naval battle. All of the authors included in this collection witnessed firsthand both the harsh and humorous realities of serving in the British navy. Portsmouth Point thus reveals both the bawdry revelry and anonymous warfare that occupied the lives of countless sailors. This illuminating look into British naval history will interest scholars of English literature, military historians, and seafaring enthusiasts alike.

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths around Portsmouth

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths around Portsmouth
Author: Sarah Quail
Publisher: Wharncliffe
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2008-04-17
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1845630467

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Portsmouth takes the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting villains of all sorts along the way - cut-throats and poisoners, arsonists and assassins, mutineers, duellists and marauders, prostitutes and thieves, and the brawling seamen and common murderers who moved through the cruel underworld of this historic town. Sarah Quail has selected over 20 notorious episodes that give a fascinating insight into criminal acts and the criminal mind. She recalls intriguing and shocking cases dating from medieval times to the present day. In the process she uncovers an extraordinary variety of misdeeds, some motivated by brutal impulse or despair, others by malice, which taint the history of every age. Most of the cases she recounts involve ill-fated individuals who are only known to us because they were caught up in crime, but she also reconsiders more famous episodes like the murder of the Duke of Buckingham and the disappearance of the Cold War frogman Buster Crabb. The human dramas that are played out in these pages often take place in the most commonplace of circumstances, but others are so odd as to be stranger than fiction.

Portsmouth The Postcard Collection

Portsmouth The Postcard Collection
Author: Alan Spree
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2019-11-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1445696916

A fascinating portrait of Portsmouth and Southsea presented through a remarkable collection of historical postcards.

A-Z of Portsmouth

A-Z of Portsmouth
Author: Philip MacDougall
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1445681803

Explore the fascinating history of Portsmouth in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to the city's people and places.

The Pubs of Portsmouth From Old Photographs

The Pubs of Portsmouth From Old Photographs
Author: Ron Brown
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2009-07-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1445631571

This book provides a unique and charming look at some of Portsmouth's most famous pubs.

Lost Portsmouth

Lost Portsmouth
Author: R. J. Cook
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2023-01-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1445699044

A fully illustrated look back in time at Portsmouth, its people and how life has changed in the city over the last century.

England

England
Author: Findlay Muirhead
Publisher:
Total Pages: 826
Release: 1923
Genre: England
ISBN:

Point of Graves

Point of Graves
Author: J. Dennis Robinson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2021-08-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781737573609

Museum caretaker Levi Woodbury's solitary lifestyle is shattered when reporter Claire Caswell enlists her ex-lover to unravel a mysterious death in a historic New England seaport. Could the dead man and his missing "manifesto" connect to growing fears that an ancient cemetery lies beneath the site of the city's next high-rise parking garage? Set in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.