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In the Tudor age the murder rate was five times higher than it is today. Now, in this unique true crime guide, the Tudor Murder Files reveals just how bloody and brutal this fascinating era really was. From the dark days of Henry VIII to the turbulent times of Shakespeare, James Moore's new book is the first to chart the period's most gripping murder cases in all their grizzly detail. Featuring tales of domestic slaughter, sexual intrigue and cunning assassinations, as well as murder mysteries worthy of Agatha Christie, the book vividly brings to life the violent crime wave that gripped the 16th century both at home and abroad. Enter a world in which stabbings were rife, guns were used to kill victims for the first time and in which culprits frequently escaped justice. The book also reveals just how severe some of the penalties could be, with gruesome punishments for those who dared to commit the gravest of crimes. Discover how one murderer was gruesomely 'pressed to death', another boiled alive for poisoning his victims and meet some of history's most notorious serial killers, including one considered so barbaric she was labelled a vampire

In which pub did the Krays murder George Cornell and so achieve notoriety as Britain's most feared gangsters? Where is the hostelry in which Jack the Ripper's victims drank? How did Burke and Hare befriend their victims in a Scottish watering hole before luring them to their deaths? What is the name of the pub where the Lord Lucan mystery first came to light? And how did a pub become the scene of the murder that led to Ruth Ellis going to the gallows? For centuries, the history of beer and pubs has gone hand in hand with some of the nation's most despicable and fascinating crimes. Packed with

Did you know that Winston Churchill narrowly avoided assassination in the Second World War? Or that Prince Albert helped Britain avoid war with the United States in the 19th century from his deathbed? In their new book James Moore and Paul Nero reveal fifty of history's most dramatic narrow escapes. From wars that were averted to invasions, revolutions and apocalyptic scenarios that we avoided by the skin of our teeth, included here are the stories of how a Soviet Army colonel stopped the Third World War in 1983 and how Nelson's heroics at The Battle of Trafalgar might never have happened

Abstract
Open Montage (OM) is an interactive video project problematizing the position of the moving image in contemporary network culture. Digital communication systems afford the possibility for user experience designers to reflect on a weakening of hierarchical narratives of power and representation; yet, the tendency towards an unthinking remediation of prior (televisual) media types and hierarchies persists. As a consequence of new, yet often aesthetically primitive communication design formations manifesting online, it is argued that tactics of image assembly and montage must be developed to afford users a wider and more expressive range of visual language building communication tools. If the interaction design imperative is not to suspend but encourage disbelief as a condition in the user, how can this be approached as a design problem?