Blogs in January 1970

The Sealed Letter 1st January 1970

This wonderful book is set in Victorian London loosely based on a scandalous divorce case, and there are features and facts that are even stranger than fiction: friends turn against each other, a stained dress, false evidence…..Helen Codrington has...

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The Yard 1st January 1970

A year after Jack the Ripper claimed his last victim, Victorian London is in the grip of a wave of crime and murder, with its citizens no longer able to trust the police to protect them. The newly formed...

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On Brick Lane 1st January 1970

An assemblage of stunning characters who have populated this much written about street in London. Jewish jewellers, workers at the old Truman Brewery, market workers, artists and writers who live around the street.

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London Calling 1st January 1970

Can you win an election and cover up murder at the same time? When Inspector John Carlyle finds a body in a luxury London hotel room he begins a journey through the murky world of the British ruling classes...

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The Streets 1st January 1970

In 1882, David Wildeblood, a 21-year-old from rural Norfolk, arrives in London to start work at the offices of a famous man. As an ‘inspector’ for Henry Marchmont’s hugely successful weekly The Labouring Classes of London, his job is...

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