Celebrated case of historical child abduction: In 1818 3-year-old Joseph Charles Horsley was abducted in London by his second cousin Charles Rennett
human interest
Dissection in hospitals : Private grief v public good
From The Observer, 1818: A poverty-stricken bereaved mother complains after doctors at Guy’s Hospital dissect her child’s body and is arrested.
Stealing food during the Spa Fields riots
Two Old Bailey cases concerning the stealing of food from shops during the Spa Fields Riots in London in late 1816, and their outcomes.
Observer obituary of Jane Lewson, who may have been the model for Miss Havisham
1816 Observer obituary of Jane Lewson, the 116-year-old eccentric who may have been the model for Dickens’ Miss Havisham
1843: A trans iron miner in Scotland
A 1843 story from the British Newspaper Archive about a young woman who trans in order to find work as an iron miner in Scotland
1817: John Hatchard, slavery and libel
The Observer reported on the trial of bookseller John Hatchard for an alleged libel on 7 aides-de-camp in Antigua for inhumanity against a slave