Dark London brings together the history of the city’s seamier side, picking out the most scandalous, curious and bizarre aspects to portray London’s shadowy and fascinating underbelly.
Dark London brings together the history of the city’s seamier side, picking out the most scandalous, curious and bizarre aspects to portray London’s shadowy and fascinating underbelly.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Dr. Drew Gray is a social historian of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who specialises in the history of crime and punishment. Drew is Head of Subject for Culture (Humanities, Media, & Performance) at the University of Northampton and teaches modules on both the History and Criminology programmes. His previous works include Murder Maps: Crime Scenes Revisited; Phrenology to Fringerprint 1811-1911 and London's Shadows: The Dark Side of the Victorian City.
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Intro Chapter 1: Crime and Punishment To include famous and scandalous crimes and criminals, such as Jack the Ripper, as well as details of notorious prisons, workhouses, executions, and the police force. Chapter 2: Superstition and Belief To include elements of hauntings and belief in the spirit world and the dark arts, as well as Victorian attittudes toward death and its associated pageantry. Chapter 3: Dens of Vice and Iniquity Opium dens, houses of disrepute, radical groups with a dark side, Chapter 4: The Destitute and the Desparate Slums, public health disasters, the pollution-filled Thames
Intro Chapter 1: Crime and Punishment To include famous and scandalous crimes and criminals, such as Jack the Ripper, as well as details of notorious prisons, workhouses, executions, and the police force. Chapter 2: Superstition and Belief To include elements of hauntings and belief in the spirit world and the dark arts, as well as Victorian attittudes toward death and its associated pageantry. Chapter 3: Dens of Vice and Iniquity Opium dens, houses of disrepute, radical groups with a dark side, Chapter 4: The Destitute and the Desparate Slums, public health disasters, the pollution-filled Thames
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