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The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer, for the Rugeley Poisonings, Which Lasted Twelve Days

"The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer, for the Rugeley Poisonings, which lasted Twelve Days" by Anonymous. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten?or yet undiscovered gems?of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The People of the Abyss

This antiquarian book contains an account of Jack London's time spent in the underworld of London in the late nineteenth-century. This thought-provoking and insightful account of life in London's underbelly highlights the chronic starvation and lack of shelter causing so much misery for so many city-dwellers. This text is recommended for those with an interest in nineteenth-century English life, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of London's seminal work. John Griffith "Jack" London (1876 - 1916) was an American writer and activist. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

The Queen’s Favourite: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

Born into an ambitious family, Robert Dudley is determined to climb high. Thrust into the world of the Tudor court when still a boy, he learns to cultivate useful relationships, and he finds none more so than his friendship with the young Princess Elizabeth. But when his father's attempt to steal the throne from Mary Tudor and crown Lady Jane Grey in her place ends in failure, the Dudley family are branded traitors and imprisoned in the dreaded Tower of London, some never to leave it. Pardoned and released, an unhappy Robert retires to the country. But when Queen Mary dies, hope revives and he heads for London. For England has a new queen. Elizabeth Tudor is on the throne and she has not forgotten her childhood friend. But their friendship soon deepens and Robert finds himself the object of the virgin queen's desire. The throne of England seems to be within Robert's grasp. Only Elizabeth stands in his way. Can Robert fulfil his father's ambition to see a Dudley on the throne of England? Can Robert ever become King?

The Romance of Book-Collecting

"The Romance of Book-Collecting" by J. Herbert Slater. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten?or yet undiscovered gems?of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Sanitary Evolution of London

Example in this ebookCHAPTER IThe health of the people of a country stands foremost in the rank of national considerations. Upon their health depends their physical strength and energy, upon it their mental vigour, their individual happiness, and, in a great degree, their moral character. Upon it, moreover, depends the productivity of their labour, and the material prosperity and commercial success of their country. Ultimately, upon it depends the very existence of the nation and of the Empire.The United Kingdom can claim no exemption from this general principle; rather, indeed, is it one which, in the present period of our history, affects us more vitally than it has ever done before, and in a more crucial manner than it does many other nations.The more imperative is it, therefore, that every effort should be made to raise the health of our people to the highest attainable level, and to maintain it at the loftiest possible standard.The subject is so vast and complicated that it is impossible, within reasonable limits, to treat more than a portion of it at a time.London, the great metropolis, the capital of the Empire itself, constitutes, by the number of its inhabitants, so large a portion of the United Kingdom, that the health of its people is a very material factor in that of the kingdom. It has a population greater than either Scotland or Ireland, greater than any of our Colonies, except Canada and Australasia, greater than that of many foreign States? ??the greatest aggregate of human beings that has ever existed in the history of the world in the same area of space.?And, in a measure too, it is typical of other of our great cities.A narrative of the sanitary history and conditions of life of the people of London, therefore, would be a material contribution to the consideration of the general subject in its national aspect, whilst it cannot but be of special interest to those more immediately concerned in the amelioration of the existing condition of the masses of the people of the great capital.Such a narrative is attempted in the following pages.It is, in the main, based upon the experiences, and inferences, and conclusions, of men who, more than any others, were in a position closely to observe the circumstances in which the people lived, their sanitary condition, and the causes leading thereto and influencing the same.It includes the principal measures from time to time passed by the Legislature to create local governing authorities in sanitary matters?the various measures designed and enacted to improve the condition of the people?and the administration of those measures by the local authorities charged with their administration.It is a narrative, in fact, of the sanitary?and, therefore, to a great extent of the social?evolution of this great city.It is doubtful how long a time would have elapsed before the condition of the people came into real prominence had it not been for the oft-recurring invasions of the country by epidemic disease of the most dreaded and fatal forms. Ever-present diseases, disastrous and devastating though they were, did not strike the imagination or appeal to the fears of the public as did the sudden onslaught of an awe-inspiring disease such as cholera.An epidemic of that dreaded disease swept over London in 1832, and there were over 10,000 cases and nearly 5,000 deaths in the districts then considered as metropolitan?the population of those districts being close upon 1,500,000.For the moment, the dread of it stimulated the people, and such governing authorities as there were, to inspection, and cleansings, and purifications, and to plans for vigorous sanitary reform; but the instant the cholera departed the good resolutions died down, and the plans disappeared likewise.To be continue in this ebook

The Skirts of the Great City

"The Skirts of the Great City" by N. D'Anvers. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten?or yet undiscovered gems?of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Third Annual Report of the Kensington Parochial Institute

“Third Annual Report of the Kensington Parochial Institute” by Anonymous. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range