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Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City
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Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City Hardback - 2012

by Catharine Arnold

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Beginning with an atmospheric account of Tyburn, we are set up for a grisly excursion through London as a city of ne'er do wells, taking in beheadings and brutality at the Tower, Elizabethan street crime, cutpurses and con-men, through to the Gordon Riots and Highway robbery of the 18thcentury and the rise of prisons, the police and the Victorian era of incarceration. As well as the crimes, Arnold also looks at the grotesque punishments meted out to those who transgressed the law throughout London's history - from the hangings, drawings and quarterings at Tyburn over 500 years to being boiled in oil at Smithfield. This popular historian also investigates the influence of London's criminal classes on the literature of the 19thand 20thcenturies, and ends up with our old favourites, the Krays and Soho gangs of the 50s and 60s.

London's crimes have changed over the centuries, both in method and execution. Underworld London traces these developments, from the highway robberies of the eighteenth century, made possible by the constant traffic of wealthy merchants in and out of the city, to the beatings, slashings and poisonings of the Victorian era.

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  • Title Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City
  • Author Catharine Arnold
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster (UK), London
  • Publication date 2012-06
  • ISBN 9780857201164 / 0857201166
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.3 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 3.30 cm)
  • Category True Crime / Espionage
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.942

About the author

Catharine Arnold's previous books include "Bedlam: London and Its Mad" and "Necropolis: London and Its Dead."

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