Crime and punishment in Victorian London : a street-level view of the City's underworld
Gilfillan, Ross2014
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Crime loomed large in the minds of Victorian Londoners. All over the city, watches, purses and handkerchiefs disappear from pockets, goods migrate from warehouses, off docks and out of shop windows. Burglaries are rife, shoplifting is carried on in West End stores and people fall victim to all kinds of ingenious swindles. Discover Victorian London's grimy rookeries, home to thousands of the city's poorest and most desperate residents. Explore the crime-ridden slums, flash houses and gin palaces from a unique street-level view and meet the people who inhabited them.
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Barnsley : Pen & Sword History, 2014.Barnsley : Pen & Sword History, 2014.
Collation:
157 pages ; 24 cm.
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ISBN:
9781781593424 (hbk)
Dewey class:
364.9'421'09034364.9421
LC class:
HV6950.L7
Local class:
364.9421364.942
Language:
English
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BRN:
1097984
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