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Jul 9, 2010 · 25th November, 2024 in True Crime. Christmas is the cruellest time for murder. But why is it so common at the sweetest moment in the year? Simon Farquhar’s new book, A Deafening Silence: Forgotten British Murders, led him down dark roads as he trudged the wintry countryside trying to understand forgotten tragedies and talking to those whose lives had been affected by them.
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24th November, 2023 in Biography & Memoir, History, Special Editions. Solving the mystery of the Princes in the Tower. Following seven years of investigation and intelligence gathering, including archival searches around the world, Phase One of The Missing Princes Project is complete.The evidence uncovered suggests that both sons of Edward IV …
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27th August, 2024 in Biography & Memoir, History. How ‘The King’s Loot’ uncovered the murky past of the Windsor Jewellery. The Duchess of Windsor’s notorious jewellery collection was, and still is, the subject of intense speculation regarding not only its murky provenance (were the gems originally sourced clandestinely from the English monarchy’s vast royal collection?), but also its ...
Windrush: A landmark in the history of modern Britain
Jun 22, 2018 · On 21 June 1948, the former German cruise liner HMT Empire Windrush arrived in the UK at Tilbury Docks, Essex carrying passengers from the West Indies.The following day, in what has become a landmark in the history of modern Britain, Caribbean migrants from countries including Jamaica, Bermuda, Trinidad and British Guiana exited the Windrush and were among the first to be recruited to rebuild ...
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13th June, 2024. Front page for The Princes in the Tower. The Princes in the Tower by the esteemed producer and Ricardian Philippa Langley has made the front cover of the July/August issue of National Geographic History magazine (out now).The magazine includes a full-page editorial from Amy Briggs, Editor-in-Chief, for her last iss…
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Who we are The History Press is an independent non-fiction publisher based in the heart of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire – home also to one of the most prestigious literary festivals in the country. Our bestsellers include Victoria and Abdul, Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire, The Princes in the Tower, prettycitylondon […]
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13th June, 2024 in Archaeology, Local & Family History ‘A Gallery of Sculpture’: Bath Abbey, Bath’s forgotten Georgian tourist attraction. Dr. Oliver Taylor author of the new book Bath Abbey’s Monuments: An Illustrated History tells the full story of Bath Abbey’s monuments for the first time and highlights the significance of the collection.By the beginning of the 1800s, Bath had one ...
Slavery in history - The History Press
Nov 28, 2018 · Slavery has existed for millennia in varying forms in all parts of the world. Affecting all races, gender and age groups. It is only in recent times that it has been globally outlawed with the United Nations General Assembly adopting the declaration of human rights in 1948 that specified that freedom from slavery is a universal human right and it …
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19th September, 2024 in Aviation, Biography & Memoir, Military. To all who fell at Arnhem – Allied and German. In 1934, aged just 16, Louis Hagen was sent to Lichtenberg concentration camp after being betrayed for an off-hand joke by a Nazi-sympathising family maid.
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19th September, 2024 in Aviation, Biography & Memoir, Military. To all who fell at Arnhem – Allied and German. In 1934, aged just 16, Louis Hagen was sent to Lichtenberg concentration camp after being betrayed for an off-hand joke by a Nazi-sympathising family maid.