Glasgow: The Real Mean City: True Crime and Punishment in the Second City of Empire
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There cannot be many cities where crime could mean anything from stealing a ship to singing a...
Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First-Century Companion
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What is it like to travel to Berlin today, particularly as a Jew, and bring with you the baggage of...
The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders
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A series of bizarre disappearances filled the citizens of early nineteenth-century Scotland with...
Robert Burns in Edinburgh: An Illustrated Guide to Burns' Time in Edinburgh
Jerry Brannigan, John McShane and Alexander David
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A reader-friendly, fully illustrated colour guide to Robert Burns' time in Edinburgh, with fresh...
The Fortune Hunter: A German Prince in Regency England
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The two decades after Waterloo marked the great age of foreign fortune hunters in England. Each year...
Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art
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In 1959, Richard Bellamy was a witty, poetry-loving beatnik on the fringe of the New York art world...