Murders In Manchester 1890 1899
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Author | : Joseph Hilditch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2016-06-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781326722074 |
Manchester of the late C19th was a grisly and challenging place to live. The slums of the city were rife with crime, and the very worst of those crimes are detailed in this book.
Author | : Jan Bondeson |
Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2020-10-28 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1800467818 |
Which of Edinburgh’s most gruesome murders has happened in your street? And were they committed by Burke and Hare, by the Stockbridge Baby-Farmer, by the Demon Frenchman of George Street, by the Triple Killer of Falcon Avenue, or perhaps by one of the Capital’s many faceless, spectral slayers
Author | : Melanie Reynolds |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2016-05-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137369043 |
Infant Mortality and Working-Class Child Care, 1850-1899 unlocks the hidden history of working-class child care during the second half of the nineteenth century, seeking to challenge those historians who have cast working-class women as feckless and maternally ignorant. By plotting the lives of northern women whilst they grappled with industrial waged work in the factory, in agriculture, in nail making, and in brick and salt works, this book reveals a different picture of northern childcare, one which points to innovative and enterprising child care models. Attention is also given to day-carers as they acted in loco parentis and the workhouse nurse who worked in conjunction with medical paediatrics to provide nineteenth-century welfare to pauper infants. Through the use of a new and wide range of source material, which includes medical and poor law history, Melanie Reynolds allows a fresh and new perspective of working-class child care to arise.
Author | : J. N. McClintock |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2024-01-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385326885 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author | : Katherine Ebury |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2021-02-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030527506 |
This book examines how the cultural and ethical power of literature allowed writers and readers to reflect on the practice of capital punishment in the UK, Ireland and the US between 1890 and 1950. It explores how connections between ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture seem particularly inextricable where the death penalty is at stake, analysing a range of forms including major works of canonical literature, detective fiction, plays, polemics, criminological and psychoanalytic tracts and letters and memoirs. The book addresses conceptual understandings of the modern death penalty, including themes such as confession, the gothic, life-writing and the human-animal binary. It also discusses the role of conflict in shaping the representation of capital punishment, including chapters on the Easter Rising, on World War I, on colonial and quasi-colonial conflict and on World War II. Ebury’s overall approach aims to improve our understanding of the centrality of the death penalty and the role it played in major twentieth century literary movements and historical events.
Author | : James Gregory |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2011-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0857721062 |
By the time that Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, the list of crimes liable to attract the death penalty had effectively been reduced to murder. Yet, despite this, the gallows remained a source of controversy in Victorian Britain and there was a growing unease in liberal quarters surrounding the question of capital punishment. Unease was expressed in various forms, including efforts at outright abolition. Focusing in part on the activities of the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, James Gregory here examines abolitionist strategies, leaders and personnel. He locates the 'gallows question' in an imperial context and explores the ways in which debates about the gallows and abolition featured in literature, from poetry to 'novels of purpose' and popular romances of the underworld. He places the abolitionist movement within the wider Victorian worlds of philanthropy, religious orthodoxy and social morality in a study which will be essential reading for students and researchers of Victorian history.
Author | : Lionel Rose |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2015-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317370627 |
Before contraception was generally available, and when abortion was fraught with danger, infanticide was a common solution to the problem of unwanted children. Massacre of the Innocents, first published in 1986, shows the causes and consequences of the high tide of infanticide in Victorian Britain. Lionel Rose describes the ways in which unwanted and ‘surplus’ infants were disposed of, and the economic and social pressures on women to rid themselves of their burdens by covert criminal and sub-criminal means. He discusses the activities of infanticidal and abortionist midwives, and shows how the practices of wet nursing and baby farming were closely related to infanticide. Unscrupulous insurance salesman even turned infanticide into a profitable business, in their reckless grab for commissions. Infanticide declined with the growing practice of contraception, the lessening of pressure of unmarried mothers, and as adoption was made easier. This is a hard-hitting, scrupulously documented piece of social history. This title will be of interest to students of history and criminology.
Author | : Helen Grant Cushing |
Publisher | : New York : H.W. Wilson |
Total Pages | : 810 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : Periodicals |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kerry Segrave |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2008-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786438231 |
Perhaps the single medium in which women have been consistently treated as equal to men is the American judicial system. Although the system has met with enormous public condemnation, equality under the law has justified the legal execution of nearly six hundred American women since 1632. This book profiles the lives and cases of selected women sentenced to capital punishment in America between 1840 and 1899, most of whom were executed by hanging. The book is divided into chapters by decades, chronologically following a summary of the long and heated debate regarding women and capital punishment. Also evident is the influence of the 1870s women's rights movement on the issue. Each chapter concludes with a comprehensive list of all women executed in the United States during the respective decade, specifying age, ethnicity and criminal conviction.
Author | : Henry Robert Addison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1112 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Biography |
ISBN | : |