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Crime Among the Puritans … and the penalties therefor
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsMassachusetts in the seventeenth century. You weren’t afraid to walk the streets. Drugs and pornography hadn’t yet become stylish, and the big overcrowded prison hadn’t been invented. Some of us might long to return to that morally unambiguous, less violent age. But before giving in to such yearnings, let’s take a closer look at Law and order in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. -
The Damnation Of John Donellan
Posted on January 24, 2013 | No CommentsIn August 1780 Sir Theodosius Boughton, a dissolute Old Etonian twenty-year-old and heir to a Warwickshire fortune, died in painful convulsions after taking his medicine. The following year after an inquest and trial which became a cause celebre, his brother-in-law, Captain John'Diamond'Donellan, Irish soldier of fortune and man about town, was tried for his murder -
Life in Montgomeryshire during the Tudor and Stuart periods
Posted on September 27, 2012 | No CommentsMontgomeryshire is fortunate in that the records of its Court of Great Sessions are good for the 290 years existence of the court -
Violent Crime in Victorian England: A Gender Analysis of Sherlock Holmes
Posted on March 21, 2012 | No CommentsIn many ways, Sherlock Holmes serves as a mirror for the attitudes of Victorian England in regards to women and their involvement in crime; as both victims and perpetrators. -
Dear Boss: Hoax as Collective Narrative in the Case of the Jack the Ripper Letters
Posted on November 11, 2011 | No CommentsWhat I am suggesting, however, is that virtually everything we know, or think we know, about Jack the Ripper is based on one sort of fiction or another. To put it another way, Jack the Ripper is a hoax. -
“Most Barbarous and Damnable Treason”: The Gunpowder Plot and how it is viewed in the Past and Present
Posted on October 10, 2011 | No CommentsThe gunpowder plot of 1605 is an event in England's history that many people may not even be aware of. The plot was conceived by a group of Catholics who wanted to blow up King James I of England and VI of Scotland because of his Protestant faith and also his Scottish ancestry. T -
The Threat of Otherness in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Posted on October 9, 2011 | No CommentsThe Threat of Otherness in Bram Stoker’s Dracula Muskovits, Eszter Trans— No 10 (2010) Abstract Hand in hand with scientific research on sexuality for modern culture, gothic fiction became immensely... -
“If he be Mr Hyde…I shall be Mr Seek”: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and its place within crime fiction
Posted on October 4, 2011 | No Comments“If he be Mr Hyde...I shall be Mr Seek”: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and its place within crime fiction Kristinsdóttir ,Fríða Háskóli Íslands,... -
“This Death Some Strong and Stout Hearted Man Doth Choose”: The Practice of Peine Forte et Dure in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century England
Posted on April 10, 2011 | No Comments“This Death Some Strong and Stout Hearted Man Doth Choose”: The Practice of Peine Forte et Dure in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century England By Andrea McKenzie Law and History Review,... -
Rural and urban poaching in Victorian England
Posted on February 16, 2010 | No CommentsRural and urban poaching in Victorian England By M.J. Winstanley and H. Osborne Rural History, Vol. 17:2 (2006) Abstract: Poaching is commonly portrayed as the archetypal nineteenth-century ‘rural’ crime, particularly...
















