Crime And Criminals Of Victorian London
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Crime And Criminals Of Victorian London
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Author : Adrian Gray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Crime And Criminals Of Victorian London written by Adrian Gray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Crime categories.
In this fascinating exploration of the seedy underside of London life in the Victorian era, Adrian Gray provides a rich picture of the sheer variety of criminal activity in the city. While taking care to cover the familiar Dickensian themes of grisly murders and ragged street urchins, he also uses a range of dramatic but forgotten cases as evidence for patterns of crime, and to illustrate the causes and effects of changes in criminal law. Starting with murder and other violent crimes, he shows how pure greed and genuine mental illness were both responsible for unpleasant cases - such as the murder of an elderly aristocrat in his bed or the poisoning of a series of 'working girls'.
Crime And Criminals Of Victorian England
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Author : Adrian Gray
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2011-01-11
Crime And Criminals Of Victorian England written by Adrian Gray and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-11 with True Crime categories.
Dark and foggy Victorian streets, the murderous madman, the arsenic-laced evening meal - we all think we know the realities of Victorian crime. Adrian Gray's thrilling book recounts the classic murders, by knife and poison, but it also covers much more, taking the reader into less familiar parts of Victorian life, uncovering the wicked, the vengeful, the foolish and the hopeless amongst the criminal world of the nineteenth century. Here you will encounter the women who sold their children, corrupt bankers, smugglers, highwaymen, the first terrorists, bloodthirsty mutineers and petty thieves; you will meet the 'mesmerists' who fooled a credulous public, and even the Salvation Army band that went to gaol. Gray journeys through the cities, villages, lanes, mills and sailing ships of the period, ranging from Carlisle to Cornwall, showing how our laws today have been shaped by what the Victorians considered acceptable - or made illegal.
Crime And Punishment In Victorian London
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Author : Ross Gilfillan
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2014-03-03
Crime And Punishment In Victorian London written by Ross Gilfillan and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-03 with History categories.
Discover the seamy history of nineteenth-century England that has inspired countless crime novels and films. Victorian London: All over the city, watches, purses, and handkerchiefs disappear from pockets; goods migrate from warehouses, off docks, and out of shop windows. Burglaries are rife, shoplifting is carried on in West End stores, and people fall victim to all kinds of ingenious swindles. Pornographers proliferate and an estimated eighty thousand prostitutes operate on the city’s streets. Even worse, the vulnerable are robbed in dark alleys or garroted, a new kind of mugging in which the victim is half-strangled from behind while being stripped of his possessions. This history takes you to nineteenth-century London’s grimy rookeries, home to thousands of the city’s poorest and most desperate residents. Explore the crime-ridden slums, flash houses, and gin palaces from a unique street-level view—and meet the people who inhabited them.
Capital Offenses
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Author : Simon Joyce
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2003
Capital Offenses written by Simon Joyce and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Crime categories.
By 1900 crime appears as a distinctively modern problem, requiring large-scale solutions and government intervention in place of an older approach rooted in personal morality or philanthropic paternalism.".
The Good Old Days
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Author : Gilda O'Neill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Good Old Days written by Gilda O'Neill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
The Good Old Days
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Author : Gilda O'Neill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-10
The Good Old Days written by Gilda O'Neill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10 with categories.
Crime And Criminals In Victorian Lincolnshire
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Author : Adrian Gray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Crime And Criminals In Victorian Lincolnshire written by Adrian Gray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Crime categories.
Criminal Conversations
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Author : Judith Rowbotham
language : en
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Release Date : 2005
Criminal Conversations written by Judith Rowbotham and has been published by Ohio State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
"The essays in this book set out to explore the ways in which Victorians used newspapers to identify the causes of bad behavior and its impacts, and the ways in which they tried to "distance" criminals and those guilty of "bad" behavior from the ordinary members of society, including identification of them as different according to race of sexual orientation. It also explores how threats from within "normal" society were depicted and the panic that issues like "baby-farming" caused." "Victorian alarm was about crimes and bad behavior which they saw as new or unique to their period - but which were not new then and which, in slightly different dress, are still causing panic today. What is striking about the essays in this collection are the ways in which they echo contemporary concerns about crime and bad behavior, including panics about "new" types of crime. This has implications for modern understandings of how society needs to understand crime, demonstrating that while there are changes over time, there are also important continuities."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
London S Shadows
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Author : Drew D. Gray
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-07-01
London S Shadows written by Drew D. Gray and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-01 with History categories.
In 1888 London was the capital of the most powerful empire the world had ever known, and the largest city in Europe. In the west a new city was growing, populated by the middle classes, the epitome of 'Victorian values'. Across the city the situation was very different. The East End of London had long been considered a nether world, a dark and dangerous region outside the symbolic 'walls' of the original City. Using the Whitechapel murders of Jack the Ripper as a focal point, this book explores prostitution, poverty, revolutionary politics, immigration, the creation of a criminal underclass and the development of policing. It also considers how the sensationalist 'new journalism' took the news of the Ripper murders to all corners of the Empire and to the United States. This is an important book for those interested in the history of Victorian Britain.
The Good Old Days Poverty Crime And Terror In Victorian London
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Author : Gilda O'Neill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-12-21
The Good Old Days Poverty Crime And Terror In Victorian London written by Gilda O'Neill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-21 with categories.
Were things really better in the 'good old days'. The Victorian era is often thought of as an age of propriety, inventions and the British stiff upper lip. However, in a world of extremes between the rich and poor, for most people it was often hellish, violent and filled with death. In The Good Old Days she reveals exactly what it was like for those on the streets that history has forgotten. Meet: The madame whose mysterious East End chambers were visited nightly by the aristocracy. The psychic who 'solved' the Jack the Ripper murders. The conwoman, bigamist and murderer who left twenty-one bodies in her wake. The Lambeth Poisoner, sewer-hunters, oyster sellers and many other colourful characters. O'Neill leads us through fog-bound streets into rat-infested slums, boozers, penny gaffs and brothels to expose the teeming underbelly of London in the reign of Queen Victoria. Praise for The Good Old Days 'A world of hunger, squalor, disease and pain' - Daily Telegraph 'Terrific. A delightful foray through nineteenth century murder and mayhem' - Spectator 'Packed with shocking and tragic tales' - Big Issue Praise for Gilda O'Neill '[Gives a] voice to memories of a changing East End' - The Guardian 'A shocking book which, for once, should dispel the myth that life in the East End was one long knees-up' - Daily Express 'O'Neill chronicles the filth and poverty with leery aplomb, then sobers things up with sharp social commentary' - The Scotsman Gilda O'Neill (1951-2010) took three university degrees and was awarded an honorary doctorate for her work on the East End. In 1990 O'Neill began writing full-time. She published thirteen novels and six works of non-fiction, including East End Tales. She also broadcasted, gave talks and wrote articles about east London history. She tragically died in 2010 from a sudden illness.