Bloody British History: Buckinghamshire

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Eddie Brazil digs into the darker side of Buckinghamshire’s past in this fast-moving local history of violence, disaster, rebellion and scandal. The book moves from Romans and Saxons through plague, religious persecution and the Civil War to the Great Train Robbery, Bletchley Park and the county’s wartime airfields. Along the way Brazil introduces some of Buckinghamshire’s strangest historical figures, including the Dinton Hermit, Gunpowder Plot conspirator Sir Everard Digby and the apocalyptic preacher of Water Stratford.