Underworld London
Author: Catharine Arnold
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Limited
Published: 2013-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781849832922
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London's Underworld
Author: Fergus Linnane
Publisher: Portico
Published: 2016-01-28
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1911042033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLondon’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.
London's Underworld
Author: Thomas Holmes
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRadical Underworld
Author: Iain McCalman
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1988-03-03
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780521307550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2019-09-03
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1536207969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarry 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.
The Victorian Underworld
Author: Kellow Chesney
Publisher:
Published: 1991-01
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780140139709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeneath 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.
London's Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720 - c. 1930
Author: Heather Shore
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-03-14
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1137313919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Dandy in the Underworld
Author: Sebastian Horsley
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2008-03-11
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 0061461253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the honorable tradition of the eccentric dandyism of Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, and Quentin Crisp comes Sebastian Horsley's disarming memoir of sex, drugs, and Savile Row.
A Companion to the History of Crime and Criminal Justice
Author: Jo Turner
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2017-06-21
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1447325869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Gangland
Author: James Morton
Publisher: Little Brown
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780751503937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
