One morning in May 1671, a man disguised as a parson entered the Tower of London and stole the Crown Jewels. When caught, Colonel Thomas Blood, conspirator, turncoat and spy, was not executed for treason but granted a generous income in the service of the King. Against the sinister intrigues of the Stuart court, this biography paints a vivid picture of this wily, ambitious and reckless adventurer, whom Charles II found more useful alive than dead.

The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood: The Spy Who Stole the Crown Jewels and Became the King's Secret Agent

History

Robert Hutchinson

Europe

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015

During the late 1930s, the Lancashire cotton town of Bolton (Worktown) became the subject of a groundbreaking social experiment: the anthropological fieldwork of Tom Harrisson that was to develop into Mass-Observation. David Hall tells the story of Mass-Observations emergence from the social, intellectual and political climate of the 1930s; he looks at how Harrisson, his co-founders and his co-workers crossed the rigid class divide in pre-war Britain; and he assesses the enduring value of Mass Observations anthropology of ourselves.

Worktown: The Astonishing Story of the Project that launched Mass Observation

David Hall

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The Witches: Salem, 1692

Religion & Spirituality

STACY SCHIFF

New Age & Spirituality

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