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Product Description: Wade Mainer (b. 1907) is believed to be the longest-lived country entertainer ever. His banjo lessons began in childhood and he played informally into his adult years, when he joined his brother, fiddler J. E. Mainer (1898-1971), in Mainer's Mountaineers...read more
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9781604735772 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, July 8, 2010, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Wade Mainer (b.

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9781604734980 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, July 8, 2010, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Wade Mainer (b.

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Product Description: Hanged at Lincoln gathers together the stories of criminals hanged at both Lincoln Castle Prison and HMP Lincoln on Greetwell Road between 1716 and 1961. The condemned featured here range from coiners and forgers to thieves, highwaymen, and poisoners...read more

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9780750951104 | History Pr Ltd, February 1, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Hanged at Lincoln gathers together the stories of criminals hanged at both Lincoln Castle Prison and HMP Lincoln on Greetwell Road between 1716 and 1961.

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Product Description: Did you have a criminal in the family, an ancestor who was caught on the wrong side of the law? If you have ever had any suspicions about the illicit activities of your relatives, or are fascinated by the history of crime and punishment, this is the book for you...read more

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9781848840577 | Pen & Sword, January 19, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Did you have a criminal in the family, an ancestor who was caught on the wrong side of the law?

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Product Description: Yorkshire Murders & Misdemeanours invites the reader to take a look at the dark side of life. This gruesome collection of historical murders and misdemeanours vividly brings to life a selection of true crimes; crimes which took place on the streets, on public transport, in homes, pubs, prisons, workhouses and brothels...read more

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9781848685598 | Gardners Books, August 6, 2009, cover price $21.80 | About this edition: Yorkshire Murders & Misdemeanours invites the reader to take a look at the dark side of life.

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Product Description: Tracing Your Police Ancestors will help you locate and research officers who served in any of the police forces of England and Wales from the creation of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of how or where to look for such information, Stephen Wade explains and describes the various archives and records and provides a discussion of other sources...read more

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9781844158782 | Pen & Sword, April 19, 2009, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Tracing Your Police Ancestors will help you locate and research officers who served in any of the police forces of England and Wales from the creation of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel in 1829.

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Product Description: Covering the lives and achievements of five English intelligence officers involved in wars at home and abroad between 1870 and 1918, this exceptionally researched book offers an insight into spying in the age of Victoria. Including material from little-known sources such as memoirs, old biographies, and information from M15 and the police history archives, this book is a more detailed sequel to Wade’s earlier work, Spies in the Empire...read more

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9780752445359 | History Pr Ltd, March 1, 2009, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Covering the lives and achievements of five English intelligence officers involved in wars at home and abroad between 1870 and 1918, this exceptionally researched book offers an insight into spying in the age of Victoria.

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Product Description: "Heroes, Villains and Victims of Bradford" tells the stories of some of the people who have helped to shape Bradford, both in terms of the place itself and its reputation for producing remarkable and talented individuals. Here we have another way of looking at what has been called 'Worstedopolis' - the story of Bradford through its people, both famous and infamous...read more

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9781859836286 | Gardners Books, July 1, 2008, cover price $27.05 | About this edition: "Heroes, Villains and Victims of Bradford" tells the stories of some of the people who have helped to shape Bradford, both in terms of the place itself and its reputation for producing remarkable and talented individuals.

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Product Description: Square Mile Bobbies is a history and casebook of the City of London Police between 1839, when the force was first established after general recognition that London was not being policed effectively, and World War II. During this time the City Police were involved in a succession of major cases, from the attempted assassination of the Rothschilds in 1862 and detective’s pursuit of forgers in 1873, to Jack the Ripper’s brutal killing of Catherine Eddowes in 1888 and the notorious siege of Sidney Street in 1911...read more

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9780750949521, titled "Square Mile Bobbies: The City of London Police 1839-1949" | History Pr Ltd, June 1, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Square Mile Bobbies is a history and casebook of the City of London Police between 1839, when the force was first established after general recognition that London was not being policed effectively, and World War II.

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Product Description: Dublin has always been a city of paradoxes, opposites and conflicts. Its population expanded rapidly throughout the nineteenth century, despite the great famine and emigration to England, America and elsewhere. Even if we leave out the crime related to political upheavals and dissensions, as the author does in this book, there is still a long and fascinating social history of crime in the story of this wonderful,energetic and cultural city - the pride of Irish achievement in the arts and literature...read more

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9781845630676 | Gardners Books, April 22, 2008, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Dublin has always been a city of paradoxes, opposites and conflicts.

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9781845630508 | Gardners Books, March 20, 2008, cover price $15.45

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Product Description: The criminal history of Yorkshire has its share of nasty and brutal murders and the majority of these killers have been men. Statistics show that most homicides are men. But the records over the centuries have tales of women killers and in these tales the murders are often cases of poisoning...read more

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9781845630232 | Gardners Books, February 15, 2007, cover price $17.70 | About this edition: The criminal history of Yorkshire has its share of nasty and brutal murders and the majority of these killers have been men.

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9781845630195 | Gardners Books, January 19, 2007, cover price $17.00

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9781903425602 | Gardners Books, September 1, 2004, cover price $15.45

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Product Description: There is a profound sense of discovery for each generation that comes to read the work of the war poets. The reader has to comprehend the sheer enormity and loss of life in a theatre of war that was at once hellish and yet paradoxically a cause for massive social change...read more

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9781842850305 | Ill edition (Studymates Ltd, October 1, 2003), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: There is a profound sense of discovery for each generation that comes to read the work of the war poets.

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Product Description: An overview of 19th- and 20th-century writing from the British Isles shows a constant interplay between metropolitan centers and regional peripheries--an interplay that points to the basic importance of place and belonging in literary creation and evaluation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780313321825 | Praeger Pub Text, December 30, 2002, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: An overview of 19th- and 20th-century writing from the British Isles shows a constant interplay between metropolitan centers and regional peripheries--an interplay that points to the basic importance of place and belonging in literary creation and evaluation.

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Product Description: Stephen Wade offers a guide to major writers, their key works, and influential background factors including the postmodern, the master-narrative and metafiction. The themes, issues, and philosophies of writers including Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and Isaac Bashevis Singer are inter-related and wider literary and historical topics are alluded to and explained...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781579581961, titled "Jewish American Literature Since 1945: An Introduction" | Routledge, May 1, 1999, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: First Published in 1999.

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9781853312267 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $55.95 | About this edition: Stephen Wade offers a guide to major writers, their key works, and influential background factors including the postmodern, the master-narrative and metafiction.

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