Heroes & Villains of Worcestershire

The great, the good, and the very, very bad from Worcestershire's past live again in this informative, lively, and entertaining collection of more than 460 mini-biographies of county men and women from across the centuries. All of human life is here, from composers to conmen, from military men—and a woman—to medical pioneers and nineteenth-century manufacturers, from daring explorers to one of the great entertainers of the music hall era. The county can claim many more who were either born or li