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If it's grim, ghastly, grisly or gruesome and it happened in Berkshire in the last 1,500 years, chances are Roger Long has investigated it. He has spent many, many hours searching the archives for evidence of the darker side of Berkshire life and brings his findings together in this day-by-day guide. Almanac entries include: - A publican with a special tilting bed that dropped his victims into a pot of boiling fat - A farmer who slew three wives and boiled up the remains of one of them - The story of Danny Grimshaw, the bogey man conjured up by mothers to threaten their children - The man hanged for forging a GBP1 cheque - The gruesome display of a murder victim's body where his family charged a penny a look Roger Long describes his collection of true stories as 'Not for the squeamish'.

Covers many historic hostelries along the Thames. This title features over sixty inns, with potted histories, illustrations and directions on how to find them. It begins in the capital and wends its way along the course of the river, working its way back to the source. It is useful to those with an interest in local and social history.

A guide to more than 100 sights, incidents and legends from the various parts of Oxfordshire. It features the tales of unsolved murders, witchcraft, hangings, poltergeists, underground caves and passages, 'cunning men', backswording and riots.

Curious Buckinghamshire is a guide to over 100 unusual and extraordinary sights from all parts of the county. Featured here are tales of unsolved murders, witchcraft, hangings, poltergeists, ‘cunning men’, underground caves, backswording and riots, as well as myths, legends and folklore from around Buckinghamshire. Illustrated with a range of photographs and original drawings, Roger Long’s entertaining stories will inspire Buckinghamshire residents and visitors alike to greater exploration of both familiar and unknown sights of this historically rich and curious county.

A Grim Almanac of Old Berkshire is a day-by-day catalogue of ghastly tales dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. Full of torment and torture, heinous homicides and cataclysms of nature, these pages contain multiple murders, horrendous hauntings and audacious thefts. Have you heard the story of the pub landlord who attempted to end it all by leaping down his own well? All he achieved was a broken ankle. Also featured here are the Watchfield farmer who tried to turn his wife into cooking fat, the family who charged people to view their relative’s decapitated body, and the violent poltergeist activity that took place at the old forge at Finchampstead and made national news headlines in 1926.This compilation of grim deeds contains a veritable plethora of poisonings, assaults, drownings, kidnappings, suicides and disasters. If you have ever wondered about what nasty goings-on occurred in the Berkshire of yesteryear, then look no further – it’s all here. But do you have the stomach for it?

For such a small county, reports of supernatural happenings around Berkshire are surprisingly plentiful and varied. The haunting figures range from shades of kings, queens and dukes to apparitions of sobbing maidens and moaning men. They haunt all manner of places such as castles, mansions, churchyards, cottages, follies and grottoes. The ghosts are sometimes victims such as wretched murdered children; other times they are the criminals like murderous policemen and thieving highwaymen. Supposedly less scary are the reports of phantom vicars, landlords and nuns. This intriguing and very readable volume contains numerous reported sightings of ghosts across one of the oldest counties in England.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT045075Dicaiophilus Cantabrigiensis = Roger Long. With a half-title and a final leaf of advertisements. The ornaments are those used by Henry Woodfall.London: printed for J. Senex, 1731. 4],50, 2]p.; 8

In the strange and wondrous land of Everlight, a battle rages . . .Five children learn a family secret that takes them into the land of Everlight--a strange and wondrous place of talking tigers, a dragon that must undo a terrible wrong, and one Theophilos Pott who helps the children not just read a story but be the story.Come along with Theophilos, an ageless bookstore owner, into his doorway to this mysterious land. Join thirteen-year-old Felicia, sisters Mallary and Sara, nine and eight; ten-year-old twins James and Jeremy; Samson the talking tiger, and Princess Gwyn, as they become a part of a battle far larger than themselves.As spreading darkness threatens to destroy the power of the Light, the children come to the aid of Princess Gwyn, learn to face difficulties with courage, the value of friendship, and how to live a life of purpose.Five children learn to listen with their hearts to truly see.