Criminal London
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A Pictorial History from Medieval Times to 1939
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Author_Mark Herber
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conspiracies
conspiracy
crime & punishment
crime and punishment
crimes
criminal
criminal gangs
dark history
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fight
fights
forgery
gang
judge
judges
local history
London
magistrate
medieval records
middle ages
murder
murders
Phillimore
real crime
revolt
revolts
riot
riots
robber
robbers
the police|magistrates
thief
thieves
true crime
vagrancy
vagrant
Product details
- ISBN 9781860771996
- Weight: 1110g
- Dimensions: 210 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 02 Oct 2002
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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London has always had more than its fair share of criminals, and medieval records are full of murders, fights, forgery and vagrancy. As the capital, it was the obvious centre for conspiracies, riots and revolts, while its wealth and anonymity made it a magnet for thieves, robbers and criminal gangs from the entire kingdom.
In addition to the criminals and their crimes, the author also provides a well-researched and illustrated account of those who spent their lives pursuing them: the police, thief-takers, magistrates and judges.
MARK HERBER read history and politics at University; then trained as a lawyer, qualifying as a solicitor in 1984. He specialised in fraud and insolvency litigation and investigations, until 1996 at Allen & Overy, in the City of London, and then at the Serious Fraud Office. A member of the Society of Genealogists, he is the author of Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History (1997) which was awarded the Library Association's McColvin Medal for an outstanding work of reference and which included detailed guidance to the records of the English courts. Mark has also had published two volumes of transcripts of the 18th-century marriage registers of the Fleet Prison and the rules of the Fleet, featuring many clandestine marriages.
