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Mayhem - Post-War Crime and Violence in Britain, 1748-53 by Nicholas Rogers
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Ser.
After the end of the War of Austrian Succession in 1748, thousands of unemployed and sometimes unemployable soldiers and seamen found themselves on the streets of London ready to roister the town and steal when necessary. In this fascinating book Nicholas Rogers explores the moral panic associated with ...Show more
Murder on the Middle Passage - The Trial of Captain Kimber by Nicholas Rogers
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
On 2 April 1792, John Kimber, captain of the Bristol slave ship Recovery, was denounced in the House of Commons by William Wilberforce for flogging a fifteen-year-old African girl to death. The story, caricatured in a contemporary Isaac Cruikshank print, raced across newspapers in Britain and Ireland an ...Show more
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