The Gallows Pole [electronic resource]
Benjamin Myers2019
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From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and
land-workers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy
and become the biggest fraud in British history.
They are the Cragg Vale Coiners and their business is 'clipping' – the forging
of coins, a treasonous offence punishable by death. When an excise officer vows
to bring them down and with the industrial age set to change the face of England
forever, Hartley's empire begins to crumble.
Forensically assembled, The Gallows Pole is a true story of resistance and a
rarely told alte...
Main title:
The Gallows Pole [electronic resource] / Benjamin Myers
Author:
Benjamin Myers, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (384 pages)
Audience:
General / adult
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781526611147
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
450802
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