The amazing 18th-century criminal career of Charles Price, forger, imposter, fraudster, con artist and master of disguise.
human interest
Blue Bell Hill: A young woman lays down to die and is eaten by maggots
Alarming discovery in a forest.
“Guilty – death”: two executions from 1817
Two executions from 1817: burglary and infanticide reported in The Observer
Adrift in London in 1817: Johnson, a dying black seaman is refused medical help
Turned away from St. Thomas’s Hospital.
Dr. Stephen Geary Wilkes: “The assassin of domestic happiness”
The rake’s progress: Dr Stephen Geary Wilkes, a bigamous philanderer who was described in The Observer in Jan 1818 as an “assassin of domestic happiness”
Plus ça change: Starving to death in Cripplegate
1816: The Observer reports on the death of starvation of a pauper in Cripplegate and pleads for the authorities to show more compassion to the poor