Murder, Poaching and Lemonade: Crimes and court cases from nineteenth century West Lothian - Softcover

Adamson, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1466353570 ISBN 13: 9781466353572

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

Synopsis

Since newspapers began journalists have known that crime stories sell copies. People can be fascinated, horrified or simply entertained by the scandals and wrong-doings of their fellows. This book gathers together a selection of stories which span the period 1801 to 1900. With a few digressions, they relate to the people and places of Linlithgowshire, the administrative area of the time which roughly corresponds to today’s West Lothian. As well as the human interest in the people, and the crimes which they may, or may not, have committed, these stories offer a window into everyday life in a period when Linlithgowshire, along with the rest of Britain, was being transformed in many ways.

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About the Author:

Alex lives in Linlithgow, Scotland, with his wife and two children. He has been the Project Manager of the Buildings at Risk Register since 2007, first at the Scottish Civic Trust and since April 2011 at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. He has an honours degree in History from Edinburgh University and a post graduate diploma in European Urban Conservation from Dundee University. Other books by the author: Linlithgow 1851: A Moment in Time Linlithgow - Architecture and History of a Scottish Royal Burgh - (Historical introduction by Alex Adamson, main text by Ron Smith), Linlithgow Civic Trust Scotland's Senior Moment, Masterpoint Press (with Harry Smith)

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1466353570
• ISBN 13: 9781466353572
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 182