This book is the third in a series of story collections about the author's home town, Conisbrough. The stories range from ancient times to the mid-twentieth century, including the experiences of a Conisbrough blacksmith at the battle of Lincoln, a tournament at Pontefract, in which the Sir John Eland, Constable of Conisbrough Castle, wins the prize, and the experiences of a Conisbrough miner during the 'Bag Muck' strike.

These stories of old Conisbrough begin with the legend of the Holy Well in pre-Roman times and go on to include England's founding father, Hengest fighting his last battle at Maes Belli (near Mexborough), the siege of Conisbrough Castle in 1317 and Robin Hood in Barnsdale Forest. Stories from more recent times include the author's reminiscences of Station Road School and Conisbrough Brickyard, and more recently still, of a blind date.

This lucid and comprehensive collection of essays by an international group of scholars constitutes a photo-historical survey of select photographers who embraced National Socialism during the Third Reich. These photographers developed and implemented physiognomic and ethnographic photography, and, through a Selbstgleichschaltung (a self-co-ordination with the regime), continued to practice as photographers throughout the twelve years of the Third Reich.The volume explores, through...

This expanded and updated new edition reflects the growing importance of the structured professional judgement approach to violence risk assessment and management. It offers comprehensive guidance on decision-making in cases where future violence is a potential issue.Includes discussion of interventions based on newly developed instrumentsCovers policy standards developed since the publication of the first editionInterdisciplinary perspective facilitates c...

Spring 1665, London. Sam was just a young boy when his master took him out of the orphanage. When he was old enough, he was going to become his master’s apprentice. But that was before the plague arrived. Now, Sam finds himself nailed into his workshop home with only his dying master and pet dog Budge for company. Can Sam escape? And even if he does, will he be able to survive?

‘In sixteen hundred and sixty-six, London burned like rotten sticks.’Left alone and homeless by the Great Plague, Sam struggled to survive. He was lucky to get a job working for the Giraud family. But Andre, the son of his boss, doesn't make life easy. Then a fire breaks out on Pudding Lane. Before anyone fully realises what's happening, London's burning... and this fire can't be put out. Now it's time for Sam to prove what he's really worth. If he can get out alive...

This is a retelling of key scenes from Beowulf in rhyming fourteeners (just for a change!). It includes the main story, all the women of Beowulf, several episodes, and ends with three verse essays on aspects of the poem.

After decades of neglect, researchers have begun to focus attention on the development and outcomes of girlhood aggression. This comprehensive volume provides an account of some of the pioneering research in the field. Its central aims are to highlight current understanding, identify key components for preventing and treating the complex array of problems experienced by aggressive girls, and raise new questions for future research.The perspectives presented by the authors highlight...

This book explores ideas, attitudes, and behaviors that keep us trapped and in bondage to ourselves. It brings an understanding of individual patterns that keep us from being the best possible version of ourselves. We invite you to walk down the dark halls of your mind to find out who you really are. To cause this profound transformation of your being, requires in-depth exploration, keen self-observation, and finally, integration of every aspect of yourself. You only need to be willing to ...

In Blood, the Civil War, the most dramatic moment in this nation's history, also produced some of our greatest literature. From tragic charges to prison escapes to the desolation wrought on those who stayed behind, Blood is an extraordinary collection of reminiscences, fiction, and excerpts from diaries and letters by an array of soldiers, writers and observers that includes Abraham Lincoln, General George Pickett, Walt Whitman, Ulysses S. Grant and Stephen Crane. In The War, no one knew i...

"I'll do anything," she said, smiling seductively. "Anything," she emphasised the word, "if you will plead with Vortigern, and persuade him to come back to me."Bishop Germanus is sent to Britannia to fight heresy and heathenism. But powerful forces are ranged against him, the most irresistible being Hengest's daughter, Rowena, who tries to break his power by seducing him.

Thruppence and Tim don't know what to expect when they ring the bell at the house with dusty windows. The Ministry of Ghosts has been given three months to prove the existence of ghosts! As it seems that children are particularly magnetic to ghosts, Thruppence and Tim are added to their ghost-catching team. And although neither of them are scared by talk of ghosts or monsters, they could never have imagined what happens next…