Bloody British History: Peterborough

• RAZED by VIKINGS! Deadly Danish assaults and demolitions • NEOLITHIC MURDERS! The tragic tale of Britain’s earliest recorded homicide! • A DEADLY GAME of THRONES! The last remains of two royal victims in the Abbey • MURDERED by the RIPPER! Was one of Jack the Ripper’s victims from Peterborough? Find out inside! • ‘I Can’t Stop While There Are Lives to be Saved’: The incredible story of BRITISH SPY NURSE EDITH CAVELL There is the darker side to Peterborough’s history. All manner of incredible events have occurred in the city: Roman occupations; Saxon murders and miracles; riots and revolts; battles, diseases, disasters and plagues. Including more than 60 illustrations, and with the history of institutions such as the prisoner-of-war camps of the Napoleonic era and the slums and workhouses of the Victorian age, you’ll never see the city in the same way again.