Commemorative Book
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Crime Edition
Price: £49.99
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A macabre record of Britain’s most notorious acts of crime from the last 200 years as reported in The Times.
Read about the horrors and tragedies of some of the most heinous criminal acts of the last two centuries. Each story is reproduced from The Times, recording as they were witnessed the trials and acts of some of our most infamous criminals.
Each story is categorised in chapters such as “Murders and Massacres” which includes the news reports on Jack the Ripper, the Moors Murders, the Yorkshire Ripper, Hungerford, Dennis Nielsen, Dunblane, Shipman and many more. Also included are “Kidnappings and Hijackings” including Lindbergh, Princess Anne, McCarthy, Terry Waite etc. “Terrorist & Political Attacks” from the 1867 Gunpowder plot to free Fenian prisoners to IRA bombings, Lockerbie, and the July 7th 2005 attacks in London. And famous “Robberies” such the Great Train Robbery in 1963, the Millennium Dome Diamond heist and the recent £40m cash robbery in southern England.
The news reports are recreated and bound in this beautiful handmade Leatherette book. The Times Book is 43cm x 32cm and Navy Blue.
Click on contents list below for news stories and events covered
"Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness
life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost
exclusively in the newspapers?"
- Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal (1950)
The book opens with a front
page montage surrounding your
own personalised label containing the recipient’s name
and greetings.
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