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19th Century…

Review: “The 19th-Century Underworld: Crime, Controversy & Corruption” by Stephen Carver

10 May 2019
By Stephen Basdeo Everyone nowadays seems fascinated by the Victorian criminal underworld. From Ripper Street to Peaky Blinders, it seems people cannot get enough of murdered sex workers and brutal…
19th Century…

Crime in a Communist Utopia

18 Apr 2019
“Up at the League, says a friend, there had been one night a brisk conversational discussion, as to what would happen on the Morrow of the Revolution, finally shading off…
18th century…

Victor Hugo’s “The Last Day of a Condemned Man” (1829)

7 Jul 2017
Last week Google celebrated the life of Victor Hugo (1802-85) with some quirky illustrations on its masthead, so I thought I would do the same by writing a post on…
14th Century…

Book Review: “The Art of Law: Three Centuries of Justice Depicted” (2017)

23 Feb 2017
Stefan Huygebaert et al (eds.), The Art of Law: Three Centuries of Justice Depicted (Tielt: Lannoo, 2016), 205pp. ISBN9789401440417 RRP £20. This lavishly illustrated book is related to a recent…

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