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An English Republican’s View of Crime and its Causes

By Stephen Basdeo on May 19, 2018 • ( 5 Comments )

G. W. M. Reynolds, the “vicious republican” of the Victorian era, attributed the cause of all crime to the the existence of the royal family and the political establishment.

Organised Crime in “The Mysteries of London” (1844)

By Stephen Basdeo on March 1, 2015 • ( 10 Comments )

The Mysteries of London was a long-running penny dreadful serial which ran between 1844 and 1846 and was the biggest selling novel of the Victorian era. Read the ebook here. A version […]

Here Begynneth A Lytell Geste of Robin Hood…

Being A General and True History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Rogues, Cheats, Murderers and Rebel Leaders from the Medieval Period to the 19th Century

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Organised Crime in “The Mysteries of London” (1844)

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