The historical crimes and criminals podcast

steven connelly
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Oct 6, 2020 • 8min

Victorian Jobs(Part 1)

The first of a few episodes over the coming months when we look at Victorian Jobs. Email:thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast http://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/08/31/dog-feces/ http://www.blackstockleather.com/history-of-the-leather-tanning-industry/ Peter Ackroyd. London Under. London: Vintage, 2012 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/quite-likely-the-worst-job-ever-319843/ Henry mayhew, london labour and the London poor, oxford press 2010
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Sep 29, 2020 • 14min

Old Bailey trials and the creation of a modern justice system

Historically there were no lawyers present in courtrooms. in todays episode we will look at the movement towards a modern criminal system that we are familiar with now. email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com twitter:the historical crimes and criminals podcast www.digitalpanopticon.org
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Sep 8, 2020 • 18min

Deacon Brodie; The Real Life Jekyll and Hyde

Deacon Brodie was an 18th Century Scottish Criminal and the real life inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's Novella Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde(1886). Twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast www.deaconbrodie.com/ www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/b/deaconbrodie.html deaconbrodie.com/8-april-1788-brodie-leter.html reedomfactsandstories.com/tag/deacon-brodie/
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Sep 1, 2020 • 14min

The theft of the Mona Lisa

In 1911 the Mona Lisa was stolen. the subsequent 2 year search would make it the most famous painting in the world. view the photographs on our growing twitter group: the historical crimes and criminals podcast Email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com The mysterious theft of the Mona Lisa, Scotti R.A, vintage 2010 www.surinenglish.com/lifestyle/202008/21/august-1911the-mona-lisa-20200821113243-v.html www.britannica.com/topic/Mona-Lisa-painting thedayswelivefor.com/the-mona-lisa-theft-and-vandalism/ samsoriginalart.com/mona-lisa-stolen/ www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/10/20/how-theft-mona-lisa-made-it-worlds-most-famous-painting/
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Aug 25, 2020 • 14min

The Berners street hoax

In 1809 the most audacious hoax ever happened in London.  pictures on the twitter group: historical crimes and criminals podcast email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com http://www.victorianweb.org/history/leisure/pubgambling.html https://www.abouttimemagazine.co.uk/london/about-time-discovered-history-gambling-london/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/london/articles/surprising-history-of-london-chocolate-houses/ bizarrevictoria.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/berners-street-hoax/ husheduphistory.com/post/181564571593/special-delivery-the-bet-and-bedlam-on-berners https://jimcofer.com/2013/02/04/the-berners-street-hoax/
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Aug 18, 2020 • 21min

The murder of Stan the Spiv

A look at 1940's London and the murder of a Black marketeer.... follow me on twitter on the historical crimes and criminals podcast email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/donald-hume-the-setty-case www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/10-facts-about-crime-on-the-home-front-in-the-second-world-war/ www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3165954/How-Blitz-sent-Britain-sex-mad-New-book-reveals-Hitler-s-bid-bomb-surrender-startling-effect.html www.nickelinthemachine.com/2013/04/warren-street-and-the-murder-of-stan-the-spiv-setty-by-brian-donald-hume-in-1949/
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Jul 22, 2020 • 7min

the Winchester Geese

The story of the Winchester Geese: prostitutes in medieval Londons south bank thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com www.smithsonianmag.com/history/london-graveyard-s-become-memorial-citys-seedier-past-180953104 pastinthepresent.net/2012/11/22/remembering-the-winchester-geese-on-bankside/ thetemplarknight.com/2012/09/09/the-winchester-geese-medieval-prostitution/
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Jul 22, 2020 • 22min

Coffee and the south seas bubble

The story of coffee, coffee shops and the south seas bubble thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com https://www.bl.uk/restoration-18th-century-literature/articles/newspapers-gossip-and-coffee-house-culture https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_coffeehouses_in_the_17th_and_18th_centuries Henri Misson, M. Misson’s Memoirs and Observations in his Travels over England(1719) https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/history-coffee-facts-discovery-use-drink-social-revolution/ https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/South-Sea-Bubble/ https://www.managementstudyguide.com/south-sea-bubble.htm https://sites.google.com/site/davesmant/monetary-economics/famous-first-bubbles/south-sea-bubble
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Jul 22, 2020 • 11min

Dentistry and the battle of Waterloo

The dentists plundered the battlefields of Europe looking for the teeth of the dead...all to make false teeth! thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com www.historyhome.co.uk/c-eight/france/teeth.htm www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/history/brace-yourself-painful-terrifying-history-25906
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Jul 22, 2020 • 23min

Dick Turpin

Dick Turpin is Englands most famous highwayman, yet most of what we know about him is based on legend. this is the true story of Dick Turpin thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com stand-and-deliver.org.uk/highwaymen/dick-turpin www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/bynpwllr/roads3.htm www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency-converter/living-in-the-17th-century

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