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Author: Judith Rowbotham
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-10-16
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1137317973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing together examples from broadsheet and tabloid newspapers this account of English crime reportage takes readers from the late eighteenth century to the present day. In the post-Leveson world, it is a timely and engaging contextualisation of the history of printed crime news and investigative journalism.
Author: Patrick Low
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-29
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1000095819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK, many specifically related to the fundamental change in capital punishment culture as the execution moved from the public arena to behind the prison wall. By examining a period of dramatic change in punishment practice, this collection of essays provides a fresh historical perspective on nineteenth century execution culture, with a focus on Scotland, Wales and the regions of England. From Public Spectacle to Hidden Ritual has two parts. Part 1 addresses the criminal body and the witnessing of executions in the nineteenth century, including studies of the execution crowd and executioners’ memoirs, as well as reflections on the experience of narratives around capital punishment in museums in the present day. Part 2 explores the treatment of the execution experience in the print media, from the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. The collection draws together contributions from the fields of Heritage and Museum Studies, History, Law, Legal History and Literary Studies, to shed new light on execution culture in nineteenth century Britain. This volume will be of interest to students and academics in the fields of criminology, heritage and museum studies, history, law, legal history, medical humanities and socio-legal studies.
Author: George Robb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-07-18
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780521526128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the period between the 1840s and the 1920s the British economy was transformed, from small-scale capitalism dominated by individual traders and partnerships to a complex financial structure dominated by large, joint-stock companies. The tremendous growth of big business created a world of new opportunities for criminal exploitation. The promotion and management of public companies and the trading of commercial securities proved vulnerable to the white-collar crimes of fraud and embezzlement. Problems of financial fraud were exacerbated by a climate of laissez-faire which championed the most permissive commercial legislation in the world, and white-collar crime wreaked havoc on the modern British economy. This new book examines the spread of white-collar crime from the Victorian period to the early twentieth century and offers a new perspective on modern scandals.
Author: Christopher R. Moran
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 1107000998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFascinating account of the British state's post-war obsession with secrecy and the ways it prevented secret activities from becoming public.
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis highly illustrated volume traces the social and cultural history of Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Author: Elizabeth Speller
Publisher: Virago
Published: 2011-04-07
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 074812697X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1920. The Great War has been over for two years, and it has left a very different world from the Edwardian certainties of 1914. Following the death of his wife and baby and his experiences on the Western Front, Laurence Bartram has become something of a recluse. Yet death and the aftermath of the conflict continue to cast a pall over peacetime England, and when a young woman he once knew persuades him to look into events that apparently led her brother, John Emmett, to kill himself, Laurence is forced to revisit the darkest parts of the war. As Laurence unravels the connections between Captain Emmett's suicide, a group of war poets, a bitter regimental feud and a hidden love affair, more disquieting deaths are exposed. Even at the moment Laurence begins to live again, it dawns on him that nothing is as it seems, and that even those closest to him have their secrets . . .
Author: Peter Bromhead
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLife in Modern Britain is an introductory discussion of British life and institutions and is intended for advanced students of English. The fifth edition has been extensively revised and incorporates the social, economic and political developments in Britain during the late 1970s. -4e de couv.
Author: Clive Emsley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-01-24
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0199653712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first serious investigation of criminal offending by members of the British armed forces both during and immediately after the two world wars of the twentieth century.
Author: Peter Catterall
Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Company
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9781855219007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary Britain: An Annual Review contains some 40 essays of analysis and review of the contemporary scene, from health to housing to agriculture to the arts, written by academics who are experts in their field and leading journalists.
Author: Garthine Walker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-06-12
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1139435116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn extended study of gender and crime in early modern England. It considers the ways in which criminal behaviour and perceptions of criminality were informed by ideas about gender and order, and explores their practical consequences for the men and women who were brought before the criminal courts. Dr Walker's innovative approach demonstrates that, contrary to received opinion, the law was often structured so as to make the treatment of women and men before the courts incommensurable. For the first time, early modern criminality is explored in terms of masculinity as well as femininity. Illuminating the interactions between gender and other categories such as class and civil war have implications not merely for the historiography of crime but for the social history of early modern England as a whole. This study therefore goes beyond conventional studies, and challenges hitherto accepted views of social interaction in the period.
