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(0)Stephen Bates
Author
Publisher
Duckworth Overlook
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The greatest villain who ever stood trial at the Old Bailey, as Charles Dickens described him, William Palmer was convicted in 1856 of murdering his best friend, but was suspected of poisoning more than a dozen other people, including his wife and children. He was a new kind of murderer: respectable, middle class, and consequently more terrifying, Britain's most infamous figure until Jack the Ripper. 'The Poisoner' takes the reader into the very psyche...
Author
Publisher
Haus
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Herbert Asquith's administration laid the foundations for Britain's welfare state, but his government was eventually to fall in 1916 as a result of the 'Shell's Scandal'. This book looks at the life and career of the man who would eventually become the Earl of Oxford and Asquith.