Author: Ruth Stratton
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752487035
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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This fascinating book, enriched by archive photographs from private collections, contains a terrifying assortment of true-life tales from Hertford and its surrounding villages. Featuring stories of unexplained phenomena, phantoms and poltergeists – including a blood-soaked policewoman seen in a mirror, the numerous ghosts of Haileybury College, and spectral Cromwellian soldiers – discover what lurks in the shadows of this historically rich county town. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, and accounts which have never before been published, Haunted Hertford is sure to enthral everyone interested in the supernatural history of the area.
Author: Jenni Kemp
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1528954483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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Ghosts are ubiquitous! This guide has 62 tours, which incorporate over 280 towns and villages, and more than 800 sites. Directions are given in each tour to enable the investigator to find the sites. Map references have been included using Ordnance Survey Maps, together with the map numbers, to enable the investigator to find the haunted sites. The purpose of the guide is to enable the enthusiast to seek and observe. There are notes of interest and history notes as the counties are awash with fascinating stories and legends. So decide which tour you are going to tackle first. You may wish to meet the phantom army at Thundridge Church ruins, the screaming woman in Water Lane, Bishop’s Stortford, the Witchfinder General, Mathew Hopkins at Manningtree, or maybe the ghostly monks carrying a coffin at Belchamp Walter.
Author: Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316712540
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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This is the first full-length critical study of country house entertainment, a genre central to late Elizabethan politics. It shows how the short plays staged for the Queen at country estates like Kenilworth Castle and Elvetham shaped literary trends and intervened in political debates, including whether women made good politicians and what roles the church and local culture should play in definitions of England. In performance and print, country house entertainments facilitated political negotiations, rethought gender roles, and crafted regional and national identities. In its investigation of how the hosts used performances to negotiate local and national politics, the book also sheds light on how and why such entertainments enabled female performance and authorship at a time when English women did not write or perform commercial plays. Written in a lively and accessible style, this is fascinating reading for scholars and students of early modern literature, theatre, and women's history.
Author: Graham R. Irwin
Publisher: CityScape Books
ISBN: 0953333191
Category : Brickendon Region (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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A history of the parish of Brickendon Liberty, Hertfordshire, including the village of Brickendon and the hamlet of Wormley West End. Illustrated with over 26 photographs.
Author: Jennifer Westwood
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141959533
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Watch out for a ghostly ship and its spectral crew off the coast of Cornwall Listen for the unearthly tread and rustling silk dress of Darlington's Lady Jarratt Shiver at the malevolent apparition of 50 Berkeley Square that no-one survives seeing Beware the black dog of Shap Fell: a sighting warns of fatal accidents England's past echoes with stories of unquiet spirits and hauntings, of headless highwaymen and grey ladies, indelible bloodstains and ghastly premonitions. Here, county by county, are the nation's most fascinating supernatural tales and bone-chilling legends: from a ghostly army marching across Cumbria to the vanishing hitchhiker of Bluebell Hill, from the gruesome Man-Monkey of Shropshire to the phantom congregation who gather for a 'Sermon of the Dead' ...
Author: Ruth Stratton
Publisher: Book Castle Publishing
ISBN: 9781903747711
Category : Ghosts
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Author: Herbert Winckworth Tompkins
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Category : Hertfordshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Author: Walter Thornbury
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Category : Occultism
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Author: William Page
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Category : Hertfordshire
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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