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  • Arsenic Was Her Weapon
    Brian Jenkins
    Female poisoners were so prolific in 19th century Britain that their form of homicide became known as a women’s crime, despite there being no shortage of male poisoners. Between the bookending executions of women murderers at the beginning and end of the century, a succession of others dispatched multiple victims, most frequently by use of arsenic. Building on previous st...
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  • The Trial of Emma Cunningham
    Brian Jenkins
     The alleged 1857 murder of a wealthy Bond Street dentist by Emma Cunningham, a mature widow he was believed to be sexually involved with, served to distract many New Yorkers from the deepening national crisis over slavery in the United States. Public anxieties seemed well founded--domestic murders committed by women were believed to be increasing sharply, jeopardizing socie...
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  • Madeleine Smith on Trial
    Brian Jenkins
     In 1855, Glasgow socialite Madeleine Smith began a flirtation with Pierre L’Angelier, a handsome clerk--for her a mere diversion. But L’Angelier sought social mobility. Their class disparity gave her control of the intrigue but when the relationship turned sexual, the power imbalance shifted.The Scots recognized irregular unions in certain cases. L’Angelier considered Smith...
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  • Mill Road
    Brian Jenkins
    Brian Jenkins tells his story of life as a child, living in a gas board cottage with no electricity or bathroom, sandwiched between a refuse tip and gasworks. The story takes us through the trials and tribulations of life growing up in the South Wales valleys, with the successes and failures of school, college and work, interlinked with the joys and sadness of family life. ...
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  • France in the Era of Fascism
    Brian Jenkins
    France’s response to the rise of European fascism during the 1930s, and subsequently to the Nazi occupation 1940-44, has been a difficult subject for the nation’s historians. The consensus amongst leading French authorities on the period has been the claim that France was largely ’immune’ to fascism in the 1930s, and that the Vichy regime was an aberration produced by defeat an...
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  • Aviation Terrorism and Security
    Brian Jenkins / Paul Wilkinson
    First Published in 1999. The recent conviction of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef for plotting what prosecutors called ’48 hours of terror in the sky’ by conspiring to bomb a dozen US airliners, the increasing number of man portable SAM attacks on aircraft, and the recent crash of a hijacked Ethiopian airliner off the Comoro Islands causing 127 deaths, show that aviation confronts a wide ra...
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