Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City (Catharine Arnold's London #4)

Catharine Arnold

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4.00 · 8 ratings · 320 pages · Published: 15 Mar 2012
Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City by Catharine Arnold
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.
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