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Category: Newgate Calendar

18th century…

Hanging the Slave Traders

1 Oct 2020
Books with the title of The Newgate Calendar were published as early as the mid-eighteenth century. Mostly they were collections of “Last Dying Speeches” of criminals and short biographies of…
18th century…

Jack ‘Sixteen-String’ Rann (1750–74)

23 Apr 2018
The eighteenth century was without a doubt the golden age of highwaymen, being the era in which robbers such as Jack Sheppard (1702–24), Dick Turpin (1705–39), and James Maclaine (1724–50).…
17th century…

Criminality and Animal Cruelty in 18th-Century England

17 Dec 201717 Dec 2017
I am currently in the final stages of editing a book chapter I have written for Prof. Alexander Kaufman’s and Penny Vlagopoulos’s forthcoming work entitled Food and Feasting in Post-1700…
18th century…

‘The Prince of Pick-Pockets’: George Barrington (1755-1804)

12 May 201712 May 2017
George Waldron, alias Barrington, was born into a poor family at Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. Although destitute, his mother and father made sure to learn that he could read and…
18th century…

Unruly Apprentices

9 Apr 20179 Apr 2017
During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, many criminals recorded in works such as Alexander Smith’s History of the Highwaymen (1714), and Charles Johnson’s History of the Highwaymen (1734), as…
18th century…

Indicted for Publishing FAKE NEWS!!! The Trial of Alexander Scott

3 Mar 20173 Jan 2019
Given that the term “fake news” has recently been bandied around by some very prominent public figures on social media (hurled as a term of abuse at various media outlets,…

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