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History of Judicial Hanging in Britain
www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hanging1.html
Excellent historical information on hanging in Britain from Anglo-Saxon times. Covers the hanging of children and juveniles in the 18th century. |
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Newgate Prison
http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgate_Prison
Wikipedia article of the infamous prison. |
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The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834
www.oldbaileyonline.org/
A fully searchable digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1834, making more than 100,000 trials available. You can search for Jack Sheppard under the name 'Joseph Sheppard' and read an account of his trial. A search of 'thief-taker general' Jonathan Wild reveals well over 40 trials in which he acted as crucial witness. |
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The Origins of the Industrial Revolution in England
www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture17a.html
Fascinating account of how the Industrial Revolution of 18th-century Britain led to massive population shifts to the cities where support from families and communities was lost, and sources of income were unpredictable. This, in turn, resulted in rising levels of crime. |
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The Workhouse
www.workhouses.org.uk
Excellent enthusiast's site with all you could want to know about workhouses in England and Wales and the laws that created them and by which they were run. |
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Con Men and Cutpurses: Scenes from the Hogarthian underworld edited by Lucy Moore (Penguin, 2002)
Presents the 18th-century criminal underworld, with extracts from popular journalism and biographical accounts of infamous thieves and murderers, whores and highwaymen, pirates and fraudsters.
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Crime in Early Modern England 1550-1750 by J A Sharpe (Longman, 1998)
Exploration of the incidence, causes and control of crime in early modern England. Court archives are used to look at gender and crime; changes in punishment; and literary perspectives on crime.
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The Floating Brothel by Sian Rees (Review, 2002)
Compelling account of penal history when transportation from England to the colonies was a commonplace alternative to the death sentence. Taking her readers into the squalor of Newgate prison and the injustices of the Old Bailey, Rees follows the 237 women convicts who left England for Australia in July 1789 on a ship destined to provide sexual services and a breeding bank for the men already there.
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The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English people 1770-1868 by Vic Gatrell (Oxford Paperbacks, 1996)
Using eyewitness accounts, pamphlets and broadsheets of the time, Gattrell vividly depicts what life was like for those witnessing or awaiting execution at Tyburn or Newgate. Executions rose to almost epidemic proportions in the 1770s for a vast range of crimes that today would warrant no more than a period of community service.
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The Regency Underworld by Donald A Low (Sutton Publishing, 2000)
During the Regency period there existed a pulsating underworld where crime and vice of every kind flourished. This work is illustrated with a variety of contemporary prints, portraits and cartoons to bring the early 1800s and its characters to life.
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The Thieves' Opera: The remarkable lives and deaths of Jonathan Wild, thief-taker, and Jack Sheppard, house-breaker by Lucy Moore (Penguin, 1998)
Fascinating account of two criminals as famous in their time as Dick Turpin, and of the criminal underworld of London in the early 18th century, which they inhabited.
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