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What Do Coronavirus, Euthanasia & Eyewitness Evidence Have In Common?
David Holding, that's what. Our most prolific writer, David Holding, has been extra-prolific this last year or so. His books: Live Or Let...
Lesley Atherton
Jul 5, 20221 min read


Crime in Bolton - Do Things Really Change?
Blog by David Holding, author of 'The Dark Figure' and other local history and non-fiction titles published by Words are Life / Scott...
David Holding
Jan 26, 20212 min read


Malicious Intent - Harold Shipman
Blog by David Holding, author of Doctors in the Dock and The Last Temptation. Harold Shipman was an English doctor who killed an...
David Holding
Jan 26, 20212 min read


Wow - a Real Witch's House?
Blog by David Holding, author of “The Pendle Witch Trials of 1612". An interesting article appeared in the Lancashire press in December...
David Holding
Jan 26, 20212 min read


Review of '344 A Story of the Pretoria Pit Disaster' by Andrea Jane Finney
Below is a review of a book published in 2011 about the Pretoria Pit Disaster which appeared in Wigan Heritage Service’s Bulletin "PAST...
Lesley Atherton
Jan 26, 20212 min read


Forensic Anthropologists - What They Do
The role a Forensic Anthropologist plays in a death investigation is crucial to the field of forensic science as a whole. ...
David Holding
Jan 26, 20212 min read
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