The historical crimes and criminals podcast
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a podcast looking back at historical crimes, criminals and social stories that created the world we now live!
Latest episodes
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.
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www.digitalpanopticon.org
Sep 11, 2020 • 8min
The Woman who gave birth to Rabbits
A bonus episode this week and the curious story of Mary Toft
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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/
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).
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www.deaconbrodie.com/
www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/b/deaconbrodie.html
deaconbrodie.com/8-april-1788-brodie-leter.html
reedomfactsandstories.com/tag/deacon-brodie/
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.
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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/
Aug 25, 2020 • 14min
The Berners street hoax
In 1809 the most audacious hoax ever happened in London.
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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/
Aug 18, 2020 • 21min
The murder of Stan the Spiv
A look at 1940's London and the murder of a Black marketeer....
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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/
Aug 4, 2020 • 21min
Alexander Pearce and tales of Cannibalism
a Gristly tale of Cannibalism in 19th Century Australia....
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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/
Jul 22, 2020 • 7min
the Winchester Geese
The story of the Winchester Geese: prostitutes in medieval Londons south bank
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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/
Jul 22, 2020 • 22min
Coffee and the south seas bubble
The story of coffee, coffee shops and the south seas bubble
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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
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!
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www.historyhome.co.uk/c-eight/france/teeth.htm
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/history/brace-yourself-painful-terrifying-history-25906
