Much of our knowledge of Victorian poverty comes from the writings of Dickens, But Victorian London had other social historians, like this piece from James Grant who wrote about Beggars. Feel free to donate on ko-fi.com/historicalcrimespodcast email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com If you want to listen to subscribers only episodes, for less than the price of a cup of coffee you can access these via the link: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-connelly/subscribe

The World has many Pubs with unusual and quirky stories behind their names, and nowhere is this more true than the UK and Ireland. In todays episode we look a few of these stories. Feel free to donate on ko-fi.com/historicalcrimespodcast email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com If you want to listen to subscribers only episodes, for less than the price of a cup of coffee you can access these via the link: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-connelly/subscribe

For Many criminal cases one person has a role of uttermost importance.....that of Pathologist. in todays episode we look at what Police and Criminals lawyers need from Pathologists. If you want to listen to subscribers only episodes, for less than the price of a cup of coffee you can access these via the link: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-connelly/subscribe Feel free to donate on ko-fi.com/historicalcrimespodcast email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com Thanks to:The concise encyclopaedia of crime and criminals by Sir Harold Scott

Today we look at John 'Swift Nick' Nevison, a 17th Century Highwayman who's famous 200mile ride was attributed to Dick Turpins Legend in a later book. However Nevison also had a most ingenious Prison Escape from Leicester Gaol. If you want to hear more stories from the podcast you will find them on subscriber only episodes

In the first part of the 18th Century, the south coast of England had many Smuggling gangs; perhaps the most notorious was the Hawkhurst Gang. Today we read a chapter from Joseph Dragovich's book 'Hawkhurst Murder, corruption and Britains most notorious Smuggling Gang' Many thanks to Joseph for permission to read from his book and it is available in bookshops. If you want to listen to subscribers only episodes, for less than the price of a cup of coffee you can access these via the link: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-connelly/subscribe Feel free to donate on ko-fi.com/historicalcrimespodcast email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com

In English Law during the 1920s and 30s gaining a Divorce wasn't easy, but a technique was devised to secure one. It became known as a Brighton Quickie

In the 1960's a book was published which took a sideways glance at London life. One of the area's it looked at was the life of Prostitutes in their many varied forms. If you want to listen to subscribers only episodes, for less than the price of a cup of coffee you can access these via the link: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-connelly/subscribe Feel free to donate on ko-fi.com/historicalcrimespodcast email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com

England in 1971 saw an 19 year old man convicted of Burglary with intent to commit rape on an 18 year old woman. The case and subsequent appeal has been studied and debated by students of Law ever since. If you want to listen to subscribers only episodes, for less than the price of a cup of coffee you can access these via the link: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-connelly/subscribe Feel free to donate on ko-fi.com/historicalcrimespodcast email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com

Samuel Pepys Diaries give us an insight to Daily life through the early Restoration period and he documents life during a Plague and the Great Fire of London....but his Diaries also contain his accounts of his sexual activities and they paint a picture of what we would now view as a Sexual predator. If you want to listen to subscribers only episodes, for less than the price of a cup of coffee you can access these via the link: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-connelly/subscribe Feel free to donate on ko-fi.com/historicalcrimespodcast email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/article/women-and-the-history-of-samuel-pepyss-diary/8470046189D88A8805F8B1ACC886475F Pimm, G. The Dark Side of Samuel Pepys, Pen and Sword History (2018)

Merry Christmas dear listeners and as is now custom we have a fictional Christmas crime story. This year its Cyril Hare's 1949 short story about a man who is being Blackmailed and is determined to find and gain revenge on his Blackmailer. If you want to listen to subscribers only episodes, for less than the price of a cup of coffee you can access these via the link: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steven-connelly/subscribe Feel free to donate on ko-fi.com/historicalcrimespodcast email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com