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Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Charles Peace; Or, The Adventures of a Notorious Burglar written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Various
Publisher : Gale and the British Library
ISBN 13 : 9781535802543
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Charles Peace written by Various and published by Gale and the British Library. This book was released on 1880 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Charles Peace, or The Adventures of a Notorious Burglar written by Anonymous and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 3624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Peace was an English burglar and murderer, who embarked on a life of crime after being maimed in an industrial accident as a boy. Settling in London, he carried out multiple burglaries before being caught in the prosperous suburb of Blackheath.
Author : H. B. Irving
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781532768750
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (687 download)
Download or read book A Book of Remarkable Criminals written by H. B. Irving and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Book of Remarkable Criminals Incipit The Life of Charles Peace "Charles Peace, or the Adventures of a Notorious Burglar," a large volume published at the time of his death, gives a full and accurate account of the career of Peace side by side with a story of the Family Herald type, of which he is made the hero. "The Life and Trial of Charles Peace" (Sheffield, 1879), "The Romantic Career of a Great Criminal" (by N. Kynaston Gaskell, London 1906), and "The Master Criminal," published recently in London give useful information. I have also consulted some of the newspapers of the time. There is a delightful sketch of Peace in Mr. Charles Whibley's "Book of Scoundrels." I HIS EARLY YEARS Charles Peace told a clergyman who had an interview with him in prison shortly before his execution that he hoped that, after he was gone, he would be entirely forgotten by everybody and his name never mentioned again. Posterity, in calling over its muster-roll of famous men, has refused to fulfil this pious hope, and Charley Peace stands out as the one great personality among English criminals of the nineteenth century. In Charley Peace alone is revived that good-humoured popularity which in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries fell to the lot of Claude Duval, Dick Turpin and Jack Sheppard. But Peace has one grievance against posterity; he has endured one humiliation which these heroes have been spared. His name has been omitted from the pages of the "Dictionary of National Biography." From Duval, in the seventeenth, down to the Mannings, Palmer, Arthur Orton, Morgan and Kelly, the bushrangers, in the nineteenth century, many a criminal, far less notable or individual than Charley Peace, finds his or her place in that great record of the past achievements of our countrymen. Room has been denied to perhaps the greatest and most naturally gifted criminal England has produced, one whose character is all the more remarkable for its modesty, its entire freedom from that vanity and vaingloriousness so common among his class. The only possible reason that can be suggested for so singular an omission is the fact that in the strict order of alphabetical succession the biography of Charles Peace would have followed immediately on that of George Peabody. It may have been thought that the contrast was too glaring, that even the exigencies of national biography had no right to make the philanthropist Peabody rub shoulders with man's constant enemy, Peace. To the memory of Peace these few pages can make but poor amends for the supreme injustice, but, by giving a particular and authentic account of his career, they may serve as material for the correction of this grave omission should remorse overtake those responsible for so undeserved a slur on one of the most unruly of England's famous sons.
Author : Eloise Moss
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198840381
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Night Raiders written by Eloise Moss and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night Raiders is the first history of burglary in modern Britain. Until 1968, burglary was defined in law as occurring only between the 'night-time' hours of nine pm and six am in residential buildings. Time and space gave burglary a unique cloak of terror, since burglars' victims were likely to be in the bedroom, asleep and unawares, when the intruder crept in, prowling near them in the darkness. Yet fear sometimes gave way to sexual fantasy; eroticized visions of handsome young thieves sneaking around the boudoirs of beautiful, lonely heiresses emerged alongside tales of violence and loss in popular culture, confounding social commentators by casting the burglar as criminal hero. Night Raiders charts how burglary lay historically at the heart of national debates over the meanings of 'home', experiences of urban life, and social inequality. The book explores intimate stories of the devastation caused by burglars' presence in the most private domains, showing how they are deeply embedded within broader histories of capitalism and liberal democracy. The fear and fascination surrounding burglary were mobilized by media, state, and market to sell insurance and security technologies, whilst also popularising the crime in fiction, theatre, and film. Cat burglars' rooftop adventures transformed ideas about the architecture and policing of the city, and post-war 'spy-burglars' theft of information illuminated Cold War skirmishes across the capital. More than any other crime, burglary shaped the everyday rhythms, purchases, and perceptions of modern urban life.
Author : E. S. Turner
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571287883
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
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Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A Book of Remarkable Criminals written by Henry Brodribb Irving and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you fascinated by the nefarious figures in history who have opted to walk a darker path in life? Armchair criminologists will take devilish delight in this gruesome collection of true-crime tales. The volume brings together concise biographies of depraved, delusional, and just plain evil louts, ne'er-do-wells and murderers, along with gripping accounts of their misdeeds.
Author : Colour the Classics
Publisher : Colour the Classics Publishing Corp.
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Total Pages : 69 pages
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004322256
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
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Publisher : John Libbey Eurotext
ISBN 13 : 9780861966578
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (665 download)
Download or read book Visual Delights Two written by Vanessa Toulmin and published by John Libbey Eurotext. This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Papers taken from the ... second Visual Delights conference held at the University of Sheffield in 2002"--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Dave Thompson
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1480386154
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)
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Author : Nicholas Freeman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748650849
Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book 1895 written by Nicholas Freeman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry and its disastrous repercussions dominated British newspapers during the spring of 1895, but as this innovative study reveals, the Wilde scandal was by no means the only event to capture the public's imagination. Freak weather, a flu epidemic, a General Election, industrial unrest, 'sex novels' and New Women, trials of murderers and fraudsters, accidents, anarchists, bombers, balloonists and bicyclists were all topics of interest and alarm. Drawing on strikingly diverse primary sources, Nicholas Freeman examines the recurrent preoccupations of a turbulent year, showing how 1890s' Britain is at once far removed from our own day and yet strangely familiar.
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Author : Christopher Frayling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783198206
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Inside the Bloody Chamber written by Christopher Frayling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading cultural historian and broadcaster Christopher Frayling reflects on gothic themes in literature, art and popular culture, through the lens of his friendship and correspondence with Angela Carter during her formative ‘Bath years’, during which she wrote most of her key works; The Bloody Chamber, The Sadeian Woman, The Passion of New Eve. Inside the Bloody Chamber collects Frayling’s articles, essays and lectures written since then on various aspects of the Gothic—several in hard-to-find places, many never published before, but all revised for this new book. The subjects match Angela’s interests, are mirrored in the stories within The Bloody Chamber—and mesh with his memories of their time together in Bath in the 1970s.
Author : Bethany Usher
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000934942
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Journalism and Crime written by Bethany Usher and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-27 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a critical, transdisciplinary approach, Journalism and Crime offers a chronological interrogation of crime journalism from its first origins in 16th century print, to a transatlantic phenomenon in the 19th century and through to the complex networked digital spheres of the current day. This is the first book to historicise the development of journalism and crime together in relation to the people on both sides of the exchange. Taking a 470-year historical sweep, it tracks the cultural, political and social significance of crime journalism and its place as the longest sustained genre of media. It emphasises how crime journalism both reflects and drives shifts in media ownership, the priorities of profit, use of new technologies and legal and political governance. Written in an accessible style, this is essential reading for courses that consider the development and nature of journalism as well as supplementary reading for broader courses within journalism, communication, media studies, criminology, sociology and history.
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ISBN 13 : 9780285629097
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
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