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 EBOOKVoyages 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wounded state, Harry’s mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of war-torn London, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel, and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.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.
Radical 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.
Britain's Underworld
Author: Billy Hill
Publisher: Billy Hill Family
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780956095800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBilly Hill writes about an extraordinary life of crime and punishment and his rise to the top of Britain's gangland. This book details Billy's sensational heists in the 1950s, for which no one was ever convicted. It's an entertaining read, giving the reader insight into what made Billy tick.
Queens of the Underworld
Author: Caitlin Davies
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2021-10-14
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 075099911X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'This book is an extremely important part of women's social history. Read it!' - Maxine Peake Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, Ronnie Biggs, the Krays ... All have become folk heroes, glamorised and romanticised, even when they killed. But where are their female equivalents? Where are the street robbers, gang leaders, diamond thieves, gold smugglers and bank robbers? Queens of the Underworld reveals the incredible story of female crooks from the seventeenth century to the present. From Moll Cutpurse to the Black Boy Alley Ladies, from jewel thief Emily Lawrence to bandit leader Elsie Carey and burglar Zoe Progl, these were charismatic women at the top of their game. But female criminals have long been dismissed as either not 'real women' or not 'real criminals', and in the process their stories have been lost. Caitlin Davies unravels the myths, confronts the lies and tracks down modern-day descendants in order to tell the truth about their lives for the first time.
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.
The Social Order of the Underworld
Author: David Skarbek
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 019932851X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen most people think of prison gangs, they think of chaotic bands of violent, racist thugs. Few people think of gangs as sophisticated organizations (often with elaborate written constitutions) that regulate the prison black market, adjudicate conflicts, and strategically balance the competing demands of inmates, gang members, and correctional officers. Yet as David Skarbek argues, gangs form to create order among outlaws, producing alternative governance institutions to facilitate illegal activity. He uses economics to explore the secret world of the convict culture, inmate hierarchy, and prison gang politics, and to explain why prison gangs form, how formal institutions affect them, and why they have a powerful influence over crime even beyond prison walls. The ramifications of his findings extend far beyond the seemingly irrational and often tragic society of captives. They also illuminate how social and political order can emerge in conditions where the traditional institutions of governance do not exist.
