Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern BritainNINE HISTORIC CRIMES. ONE FAMILIAR OBSESSION. In early modern England, murder truly was most foul. Trials were gossipy events packed to the rafters with noisome spectators. Executions were public proceedings which promised not only gore, but desperate confessions and the grandest, most righteous human drama. Bookshops saw grisly stories of crime and death sell like hot cakes. This history unfolds the true stories of murder, criminal investigation,

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This is a funny and touching exploration of how Art - its beauty and its value - touches the life of one little boy and his big family in a very small town

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ambitious poet and protg of the kings powerful son John of Gaunt

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James Thackeray

What she finds amid childhood memorabilia is an old undelivered letter