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Title: FOUL DEEDS AND SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN AND AROUND NEWCASTLE
By: Maureen Anderson
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 1903425344
ISBN 13: 9781903425343
Publisher: PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 31 May, 2004
Pages: 176
Description: By the 18th century, Newcastle had become one of the wealthiest cities in Britain. However, the city was also host to great poverty and social problems amongst the working classes, with alcohol being the only escape for many. This book explores the dark history of the city and the surrounding region.
Synopsis: Newcastle, Gateshead, Morpeyh, Tynemouth and North and South Shields were towns of great wealth because of the many natural resources in the area. Certainly by the eighteenth century, Newcastle had become the most important commercial centre in the north, but, along with the wealth of the merchants and the factory owners there was the dire poverty of the working class. A pall of dark fog would linger over the buildings caused by the pollution spouting out from the chimneys of the ironworks and other industries. Bad housing, sanitation, overcrowding and low wages bred superstition, ignorance and illiteracy. Alcohol was often the only release the poorer classes had from their otherwise hum-drum daily drudge. It was not only the men who would spend all their money in the many beer houses, women also would drink themselves into oblivion, even if it meant their children went hungry. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and around Newcastle spans three hundred years of grisly events beginning with the execution of so-called witches. The stories will show the reader the depraved side of their fellow man and give an insight into the darkest side of the history of the area.
Illustrations: Illustrations, maps, 2 ports.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Wharncliffe Books
Returns: Returnable
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