A Grim Almanac of Birmingham

"Discover 366 gruesome tales from Birmingham's past. With appalling accidents, frightful crimes and extraordinary deaths, there's something to surprise even the most hardened reader."--Back cover.

About the author

Karen Evans has been a teacher for more than 20 years and is currently the deputy head of a primary school. She is a genealogist and has had articles published in Family Tree magazine. She is the author of A Grim Almanac of Staffordshire.

Summary

Discover 366 gruesome tales from Birmingham’s past.Featured here is the man who deliberately swallowed his wooden walking stick, a nineteenth-century horsemeat scandal, a drunken dispute that led to a man being stabbed in the eye with a table fork, and the lightning storm which hit a fog-signalling factory, setting off 43,000 explosions.

Product details

• Authors: Evans, Karen Evans
• Publisher: The History Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780750959605
• ISBN: 978-0-7509-5960-5
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Illustrations: 60 Illustrations, black and white
• Series: Grim Almanacs; Grim Almanacs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Regional and national histories