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Author | : Susanna Gregory |
Publisher | : Sphere |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2013-01-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0748121064 |
Superspy of Restoration London, Thomas Chaloner foils an uprising in his eighth outing ------------------------------------- Five years after Charles II's triumphant return to London there is growing mistrust of his extravagant court and of corruption among his officials - and when a cart laden with gunpowder explodes outside the General Letter Office, it is immediately clear that such an act is more than an expression of outrage at the inefficiency of the postal service. As intelligencer to the Lord Chamberlain, Thomas Chaloner cannot understand why a man of known incompetence is put in charge of investigating the attack while he is diverted to make enquiries about the poisoning of birds in the King's aviary in St James's Park. Then human rather than avian victims are poisoned, and Chaloner knows he has to ignore his master's instructions and use his own considerable wits to defeat an enemy whose deadly tentacles reach into the very heart of the government: an enemy who has the power and expertise to destroy anyone who stands in the way ...
Author | : John Heneage Jesse |
Publisher | : BoD - Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2024-02-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
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"Historical and Literary Memorials of the City of London" is a work by John Heneage Jesse. Published in the 19th century, this book is a collection of historical and literary accounts focused on the city of London. John Heneage Jesse was an English historian and writer known for his works on historical topics. In this particular volume, Jesse likely delves into various aspects of London's history, including notable events, landmarks, literary connections, and perhaps the social and cultural development of the city. For readers interested in the history of London, especially during the 19th century, "Historical and Literary Memorials of the City of London" by John Heneage Jesse could provide valuable insights and a glimpse into the city's rich past.
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Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Indexes |
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Author | : Edgar Sheppard |
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Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : George Ripley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Author | : Bernard Burke |
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Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : Heraldry |
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Author | : John Timbs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1026 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : London (England) |
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Author | : Craig Spence |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783271353 |
"Between the mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth century more than 15,000 Londoners suffered sudden violent deaths. While this figure includes around 3,000 who were murdered or committed suicide, the vast majority of fatalities resulted from unexplained violent deaths or accidents. In the early modern period, accidental and "disorderly" deaths - from drowning, falls, stabbing, shooting, fires, explosions, suffocation, and animals and vehicles, among others - were a regular feature of urban life. This book is a critical study of the early modern accident. Drawing on the weekly London Bills of Mortality, parish burial registers, newspapers and other related documents, it examines accidents and other forms of violent death in the city with a view to understanding who among its residents encountered such events, how the bureaucracy recorded and elaborated their circumstances and why they did so, and what practical responses might follow. Additionally, the book explores the way in which these events were transformed to become a recurring cultural trope in oral, textual and visual narratives of metropolitan life and how sudden deaths were understood by early modern mentalities. By the mid-eighteenth century, providential explanations were giving way to a more "mechanically" rational view that saw accident events as threats to be managed rather than misfortunes to be explained."--
Author | : Henry Benjamin Wheatley |
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Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : London (England) |
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Based upon the Handbook of London, by the late Peter Cunningham.
Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
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Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Bills, Legislative |
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