How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England by Ruth Goodman
Mudlarking by Lara Maiklem
The Ravenmaster by Christopher Skaife
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The Feather Thief by Kirk W Johnson
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The Five – Hallie Rubenhold – This book turned the Jack the Ripper story upside down for me. It reclaims the stories of the five women who were murdered in way more detail than I would have thought possible. At the same time it is a social history of working class London. Couldn’t drag my eyes away from the book.
The Ghost Map – Steven Johnson – This is a tense book about a mass murderer, Cholera. A scientist and a vicar team up to backtrack a Cholera epidemic, mapping it’s victims back to it’s point of outbreak. To prove once and for all how this disease spreads.
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher – Kate Summerscale – In the early days of Scotland Yard Mr Whicher is sent to investigate a troubling murder in a respectable middle class country house. Uncovering a tale so dark Victorians found it hard to believe. But was it the full story?
The Professor and the Madman – Simon Winchester – You wouldn’t think creating a dictionary would involve so much drama. But the twists and turns in the story of the creation of the Oxford English dictionary, is bonkers.
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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England by Ruth Goodman
Mudlarking by Lara Maiklem
The Ravenmaster by Christopher Skaife
[removed]
The Feather Thief by Kirk W Johnson
The Five – Hallie Rubenhold – This book turned the Jack the Ripper story upside down for me. It reclaims the stories of the five women who were murdered in way more detail than I would have thought possible. At the same time it is a social history of working class London. Couldn’t drag my eyes away from the book.
The Ghost Map – Steven Johnson – This is a tense book about a mass murderer, Cholera. A scientist and a vicar team up to backtrack a Cholera epidemic, mapping it’s victims back to it’s point of outbreak. To prove once and for all how this disease spreads.
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher – Kate Summerscale – In the early days of Scotland Yard Mr Whicher is sent to investigate a troubling murder in a respectable middle class country house. Uncovering a tale so dark Victorians found it hard to believe. But was it the full story?
The Professor and the Madman – Simon Winchester – You wouldn’t think creating a dictionary would involve so much drama. But the twists and turns in the story of the creation of the Oxford English dictionary, is bonkers.
Black and British by David Olusoga
Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell.