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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. -
Women Thieves in Early Modern England: What Can We Learn from Narrative Sources?
Posted on February 28, 2012 | No CommentsAccording to the Assize records for Sussex which cover the entire reign of Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603), 12 women were tried in that county and over that period of time for witchcraft, 24 for infanticides and 127 for all kinds of theft. -
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. -
The Hunt for Jack the Ripper
Posted on October 16, 2011 | No CommentsWilliam D. Rubinstein reviews the achievements of the ‘Ripperologists’ and lends weight to the argument surrounding the Ripper Diaries. -
“Most Barbarous and Damnable Treason”: The Gunpowder Plot and how it is viewed in the Past and Present
Posted on October 10, 2011 | No Comments“Most Barbarous and Damnable Treason”: The Gunpowder Plot and how it is viewed in the Past and Present York, Jill B.A. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, (2008) Abstract This paper will discuss... -
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... -
William Herle and the English Secret Service
Posted on October 6, 2011 | No CommentsWilliam Herle and the English Secret Service Gill, Michael Patrick M.A. Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington (2010) Abstract This thesis examines William Herle‘s life through his surviving letters to William... -
Aberrant Accounts: William Dugdale’s Handling of Two Tudor Murders in The Antiquities of Warwickshire
Posted on October 5, 2011 | No CommentsAberrant Accounts: William Dugdale’s Handling of Two Tudor Murders in The Antiquities of Warwickshire Broadway, Jane Midland history, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring (2008) Abstract This article examines two accounts... -
“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,... -
The case of Aaron Kosminski: was he Jack the Ripper?
Posted on October 4, 2011 | No CommentsThe case of Aaron Kosminski: was he Jack the Ripper? S. K. Lekh, A. Langa, P. Begg and B. K. Puri Psychiatric Bulletin (1992), 16:786-788 Abstract The Whitechapel murders of... -
“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,... -
Violence and violent crime in the North East, c. 1650-1720
Posted on August 30, 2010 | No CommentsViolence and violent crime in the North East, c. 1650-1720 By Joanna Bath PhD Dissertation, Newcastle University, 2001 Abstract: This thesis focuses on the violent actions, illegal and semi-legal, of... -
Justices of the Peace in Mid-Tudor Devon Circa 1538-1570
Posted on July 17, 2010 | No CommentsJustices of the Peace in Mid-Tudor Devon Circa 1538-1570 By Rebecca Jane Zmarzly Master’s Thesis, Texas State University (2007) Introduction: The mid-Tudor era of English history is characterized by larger... -
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... -
Give Me Not Poverty, Lest I Steal
Posted on January 21, 2010 | No CommentsGive Me Not Poverty, Lest I Steal Backscheider, Paula R The Eighteenth Century, Volume 48, Number 1, Spring 2007 Abstract “The Judges sat Grave and Mute, gave me an easy... -
The Old Bailey proceedings and the representation of crime and criminal justice in eighteenth-century London
Posted on December 17, 2009 | No CommentsThe Old Bailey proceedings and the representation of crime and criminal justice in eighteenth-century London By R.B. Shoemaker Journal of British Studies, Vol.47:3 (2008) Introduction: The Proceedings of the Old...