Manchester Murders And Misdemeanours

This collection of true life crime stories gives a vivid insight into life in Manchester in the past.

A compelling collection of true crime stories from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Lancashire city of Preston.

This collection of true-life crime stories gives a vivid insight into life in Cheshire in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Nineteenth century crime and punishment in West London.

A gruesome look at the crimes and mysteries of Yorkshire.

Nineteenth century crime and punishment in Durham.

Manchester of the late C19th was a grisly and challenging place to live. The slums of the city were rife with crime, and the very worst of those crimes are detailed in this book.

Murder Capital is a historical study of unexpected deaths whose circumstances required official investigation in mid-twentieth-century London. Suspicious deaths – murders in the family and by strangers, infanticides and deaths from illegal abortions – reveal moments of personal and communal crisis in the social fabric of the city. The intimate details of these crimes revealed in police investigation files, newspaper reports and crime scene photographs hint at the fears and desires of people in London before, during and after the profound changes brought by the dislocations of the Second World War. By setting the institutional ordering of the city against the hidden intimate spaces where crimes occurred and were discovered, the book presents a new popular history of the city, in which urban space circumscribed the investigation, classification and public perceptions of crime.