Northamptonshire Murders

Again, a mix of solved and unsolved cases covering 1850-1952, starting with the unsolved murder of Lydia Atley, 1850 at Ringstead, the book covers 14 historical cases from across the county; the Daventry murder of Elizabeth Pinckard (1851); Benjamin Cheney, Rothwell (1855); Mary Addington, Holcote, (1871); John Newitt, Towcester, (1873); Mary Ann Tite, Stoke Bruerne (1885) and the locally famous body in the bag murder of Annie Pritchard, East Haddon(1892).

Others include murders at Sulgrave, Northampton, Kettering, Higham Ferrers and the Ashton Village double murder in 1952.

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Northampton in the Great War

No murder here- this is a history book and one I greatly enjoyed writing.

It tells the story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in a time of war.

It is about what the people of Northampton and its surrounding areas did to help the war effort against a backdrop of some of the greatest military battles ever fought.

It is a serious book looking at the way this war shaped peoples lives and how they responded to the huge losses of local men on the battlefields of Europe across five years of conflict.

It tells how the war effort, at a local level, became a part of people’s everyday existence and of the personal losses they had to endure.

If local history is your thing this is for you.

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