The historical crimes and criminals podcast

A bonus episode this week and the curious story of Mary Toft twitter: the historical crimes and criminals podcast email: thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/exhibns/month/aug2009.html brewminate.com/the-rabbit-birthing-hoax-of-mary-toft-in-the-18th-century/

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/

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/

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/

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/

a Gristly tale of Cannibalism in 19th Century Australia.... email:thehistoricalcrimespodcast@yahoo.com www.thestatworld.com/2016/08/death-of-richard-parker-shipwreck-cannibalism www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/we-ate-each-other-by-one-the-gruesome-story-of-alexander-pearce-the-cannibal-convict/news-story/5795fecf611d6194e3d187ce1c71ee11 Collins, Paul Hells gates:the terrible journey of Alexander Pearce, Van Diemans land cannibal. south Yarra 2002 www.theage.com.au/national/a-journey-through-hells-gate-20021029-gduqih.html www.historic-uk.com/historyuk/historyofscotlannd/sawney-bean-scotlands-most-famous-cannibal/

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/

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

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

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