The History Press Ltd Bloody British History: Salisbury

Saxons of Old Sarum buried alive!The plague pits of Salisbury!Cathedral organist intent on murder!The book bound in human skin!Locked in a cage with criminal lunatics!A monocled killer!Salisbury has one of the most gruesome histories on record.Human remains filled its barrows, its nobles were tortured, its witches hanged and a deadly disease once lurked in its murky waters.There was no safety in its inns either, for one was plagued with suicides and another hid a severed hand.Even the introduction of the railways led to death and destruction.With more than sixty illustrations, hundreds of years of terrible true history are waiting for you inside this book!