See this lady? You would NOT want to lock horns with her. You certainly wouldn't give her your baby. But in the late nineteenth century, that's exactly what a lot of women did. Why? Because in an era when having a child out of wedlock was so severely frowned upon, Amelia Dyer took advantage of this. She advertised in the press offering to "adopt" unwanted babies, charged the poor grief-stricken mums GBP 10 for the privilege, took the wee babes off their hands - and then drowned them in the River Thames. Pocketing the cash, she strangled her victims with white tape, then wrapped their bodies either in brown parcel paper or in a carpet bag, to be recovered only weeks - or months - later. As well as relating the story, the authors explore the circumstances that enabled such crimes to be committed. Unregulated "adoption" was a widely acknowledged problem. The Child Protection Act did not yet exist. In Mrs Dyer's case, though, such shameless profiteering did not, ultimately, go unpunished: the police finally located Mrs Dyer, kept her under surveillance and then mounted a "sting" operation, using a young woman to pose as a potential customer. Amelia Dyer was arrested when she opened her front door to find two policemen on her doorstep. Finally confessing, she said, "You'll know all mine by the tape around their necks." She was hanged in 1896.

Amelia Dyer, Angel Maker: The Woman Who Murdered Babies for Money

Alison Rattle

Biographies & Memoirs

Andre Deutsch

This frank and fascinating book ransacks the remarkable history of forty of Europe's most dumb,deluded, and downright dangerous monarchs, to reveal a legion of kins and queens who have sat upon the pedestal of power and abused it in spectacular style.

Mad Kings & Queens

Allison Vale

Historical

Barnes_and_Noble

A fast read - facts and information about famous historical events

History: 501 Things You Should Have Learned About History

Alex Woolf

Metro

American History in BIte-Sized Chunks

American History in BIte-Sized Chunks

Metro_Books

An entertaining and informative romp through America’s history, without the boring bits. For most people the details of the American Revolution, the history of Thanksgiving and the Battle of the Alamo are sketchy at best. However, help is at hand. Remember the Alamo? contains all the American history you learnt at school and promptly forgot, and perhaps some things that you were never taught in the first place. Broken down into easily digested bite-sized chunks, this book will teach you the basics of over 150 key events from Columbus to Nixon and from cowboys to cosmonauts. This helpful guide assumes no other knowledge of world history and doesn't contain anything but the most salient points, so that anyone can become clued up on the history of one of the world's most developed nations. Concise and informative, yet entertaining and engagingly written, Remember the Alamo? contains everything you will ever need to know about the United States.

Remember the Alamo?: American History in Bite-Sized Chunks

History

Americas

Michael O Mara Publications

Mamma mia! Didn't think mums could make you laugh? Think again. "Mothers' Wit" is full of classic one-liners from a rich variety of red-hot mammas such as Victoria Wood, Joan Rivers, Roseanne and Marge Simpson. Covering all the joys of motherhood, these celebrated matriarchs deliver belly laughs and offer pearls of maternal wisdom on such topics as morning sickness and stretch marks, playground politics and raising hormonal teenagers, frenzied mealtimes and dreary household chores. Complemented with sharp insights from family members, "Mothers' Wit" will give every mother the one thing she really needs (apart from an uninterrupted night's sleep): a good laugh.

Mothers' Wit

Parenting & Relationships

Family Relationships

Prion Books Ltd

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Amelia Dyer, Angel Maker: The Woman Who Murdered Babies for Money

Mad Kings & Queens

History: 501 Things You Should Have Learned About History

American History in BIte-Sized Chunks

Remember the Alamo?: American History in Bite-Sized Chunks

Mothers' Wit