Underworld London

Author : Catharine Arnold
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857201171

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Beginning with an atmospheric account of Tyburn, we are set up for a grisly excursion through London as a city of ne'er do wells, taking in beheadings and brutality at the Tower, Elizabethan street crime, cutpurses and con-men, through to the Gordon Riots and Highway robbery of the 18thcentury and the rise of prisons, the police and the Victorian era of incarceration. As well as the crimes, Arnold also looks at the grotesque punishments meted out to those who transgressed the law throughout London's history - from the hangings, drawings and quarterings at Tyburn over 500 years to being boiled in oil at Smithfield. This popular historian also investigates the influence of London's criminal classes on the literature of the 19thand 20thcenturies, and ends up with our old favourites, the Krays and Soho gangs of the 50s and 60s. London's crimes have changed over the centuries, both in method and execution. Underworld London traces these developments, from the highway robberies of the eighteenth century, made possible by the constant traffic of wealthy merchants in and out of the city, to the beatings, slashings and poisonings of the Victorian era.

Author : Catharine Arnold
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857201164

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Underworld London by Catharine Arnold Pdf

A quirky, fascinating portrait of the English capital's dark and criminal underbelly throughout history Beginning with an atmospheric account of Tyburn, this grisly excursion through London as a city of ne'er do wells takes in beheadings and brutality at the Tower, Elizabethan street crime, cutpurses and con-men, 18th century highway robbery, and the rise of prisons, the police, and the Victorian era of incarceration. It also examines the influence of London's criminal classes on the literature of the 19th and 20th century, through to the Krays and Soho gangs of the 1950s and 1960s. London's crimes have changed over the centuries, both in method and execution. This lively popular history traces these developments, from the highway robberies of the 18th century, made possible by the constant traffic of wealthy merchants in and out of the city, to the beatings, slashings, and poisonings of the Victorian era.

Author : Fergus Linnane
Publisher : Portico
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781911042037

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London's Underworld by Fergus Linnane Pdf

London’s Underworld takes us on the nightmarish last journeys of condemned criminals to the gallows at Tyburn. We enter death-trap eighteenth century prisons, one of which the novelist Henry Fielding described as a ‘prototype of hell’. We walk the crowded streets of Victorian London with its swarms of prostitutes and follow the ingenious villains who carried out the first great train robbery in 1854. We see the rise and fall of the interwar racecourse gangs and the bloody battle for control of the Wes End. This fascinating book illustrates how crime in the capital has evolved from the extreme violence of the early eighteenth century to the vastly more complex and lucrative, but no less brutal, gangland of today.

Author : Thomas Holmes
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368401641

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London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes Pdf

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Author : Henry Mayhew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Crime
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00003076

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London's Underworld by Henry Mayhew Pdf

Author : Thomas Holmes
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843312192

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London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes Pdf

A thrilling exposé and a considered anthropological review of London's seedy underbelly.

Author : Heather Shore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137313911

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London's Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720 - c. 1930 by Heather Shore Pdf

This book offers an original and exciting analysis of the concept of the criminal underworld. Print culture, policing and law enforcement, criminal networks, space and territory are explored here through a series of case studies taken from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author : Iain McCalman
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1988-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521307554

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Radical Underworld by Iain McCalman Pdf

This highly acclaimed study draws on information from spy reports and contemporary literature to look at English popular radicalism during the period between the anti-Jacobin government "Terror" of the 1790s and the beginnings of Chartism. The book traces for the first time the history of theunderground revolutionary-republican grouping founded by the agrarian reformer, Thomas Spence. Challenging conventional distinctions between "high" and "low" culture, McCalman illuminates the darker, more populist sides of Romanticism. Radical Underworld broadens the conventional boundaries ofpopular politics and culture by exploring a political underworld connected with poverty, crime, prophetic religion, and literary culture.

Author : Marcus Sedgwick,Julian Sedgwick
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781536207965

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Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black by Marcus Sedgwick,Julian Sedgwick Pdf

Harry Black is lost between the world of war and the land of myth in this illustrated novel that transports the tale of Orpheus to World War II–era London. Brothers Marcus and Julian Sedgwick team up to pen this haunting tale of another pair of brothers, caught between life and death in World War II. Harry Black, a conscientious objector, artist, and firefighter battling the blazes of German bombing in London in 1944, wakes in the hospital to news that his soldier brother, Ellis, has been killed. In the delirium of his wounded state, Harry’s mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of war-torn London, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel, and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Driven by visions of Ellis still alive and a sense of poetic inevitability, Harry sets off on a search for his brother that will lead him deep into the city’s Underworld. With otherworldly paintings by Alexis Deacon depicting Harry’s surreal descent further into the depths of hell, this eerily beautiful blend of prose, verse, and illustration delves into love, loyalty, and the unbreakable bonds of brotherhood as it builds to a fierce indictment of mechanized warfare.

Author : Turner, Jo,Taylor, Paul,Sharon Morley,Karen Corteen
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447325864

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A Companion to the History of Crime and Criminal Justice by Turner, Jo,Taylor, Paul,Sharon Morley,Karen Corteen Pdf

This companion addresses the history of crime and punishment through entries by expert contributors that select and define the central vocabulary and terminology for the study of the history of crime and punishment. Organized alphabetically, with useful cross-references and bibliographies, it goes beyond mere definitions to offer rigorous critical analysis of the terms and their use within the field, both now and in the past. It will be essential to students, researchers, and teachers in the field.

Author : James Morton
Publisher : Little Brown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Crime
ISBN : 0751503932

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Gangland by James Morton Pdf

The spectacular trial of the high-profile Kray brothers blew the lid off the London Underworld of the 1950s and 60s. But what of the great city's gangland before and since? In this comprehensive and thoroughly researched history of London's secret life, James Morton exposes some startling conclusions about exactly who lurked - and still lurks - in the powerhouses of the Underworld. From the Dover Road Gang of the 1880s to the era of the Krays and up to the Triads and Yardies of the present, GANGLAND reveals the people who ruled, robed and regulated vast areas of the capital - and those who hold ominous power today. Fascinating accounts are recorded - many from contemporaries of the controllers of vice in Soho, of contract killers, bank robbers, drug dealers, grasses and supergrasses - and of the crooked police officers and lawyers who helped them perpetuate the Underworld structure.

Author : Mark Roodhouse
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191636882

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Black Market Britain by Mark Roodhouse Pdf

Britain's underground economy flourished during the 1940s and early 1950s thanks to rationing and price control, producers, traders, and professional criminals helped consumers to get a little extra on the side, from under the counter, or off the back of a lorry. Yet widespread evasion of regulations designed to ensure fair shares for all did not undermine the austerity policies that characterised these years and its vital role in securing compliance with economic regulation. In Black Market Britain, Mark Roodhouse argues that Britons showed self-restraint in their illegal dealings. The means, motives, and opportunities for evasion were not lacking. The shortages were real, regulations were not watertight, and enforcement was haphazard. Fairness, not patriotism and respect for the law, is the key to understanding this self-restraint. By invoking popular notions of a fair price, a fair profit, and a fair share, government rhetoric limited black marketeering as would-be evaders had to justify their offences both to themselves and others. Black Market Britain underlines the importance of fairness to those seeking a richer understanding of economic life in modern Britain.

Author : Julia Wardhaugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351897167

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Sub City: Young People, Homelessness and Crime by Julia Wardhaugh Pdf

Youth homelessness increased rapidly during the late 1980s and early 1990s, at a time when street homelessness in particular became increasingly associated in the popular mind with dangerousness and criminality. This book analyzes the construction of homelessness as a social and legal 'problem' and documents young people’s own experiences of homelessness, crime and danger. Drawing on the authors’ own field work in a range of urban and rural locations, the book addresses themes of home and homelessness, of exclusion and marginality and of risk and urban incivilities.

Author : David Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798216098942

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Hooligans, Harlots, and Hangmen by David Taylor Pdf

This detailed study of the criminal justice system in Victorian Britain highlights the dilemmas facing those responsible for administering justice and protecting society from "the criminal." Encompassing the crimes of the never-identified Jack the Ripper, as well as many other equally intriguing criminals, Hooligans, Harlots, and Hangmen: Crime and Punishment in Victorian Britain is a detailed study of the criminal justice system as it evolved from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to the outbreak of the "Great War" in 1914. The first section of the book considers crimes and criminals, while the second looks at the ways in which the Victorians sought to explain this deviant behavior. The third section focuses on the creation of criminals through the work of the constabulary and the courts. The final section considers the changing ways in which criminals were punished as the scaffold gave way to the prison as the dominant means of punishment. A brief introduction and conclusion set Victorian crime into its broader sociopolitical context and relates the issues society grappled with then to those of the present day.

Author : Kellow Chesney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01
Category : Criminals
ISBN : 0140139702

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The Victorian Underworld by Kellow Chesney Pdf

Beneath the respectable surface of Victorian England lay a criminal world as diverse, turbulent and vicious as any. This begins by looking at that age and its penal methods and it then recreates the showmen, religious fakes, garrotters, pickpockets, prostitutes and magsmen who thronged the murky rookeries and lays of the cities.