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human interest
Two cases of child stealing
Both involved callous deception.
Charlotte Long, hanged in 1833, for setting fire to haystacks
A miscarriage of justice – in many ways.
Hannah Palmer: Executed with her brother for the murder of his wife (1801)
A cruel and stupid crime.
Mother of 8 Ann Woodman, condemned to death for uttering forged banknotes
How did the authorities respond?
“A Warning to Thousands”: Sarah Lloyd
The wages of her sin were death
Ann Crampton, who “swept the whole concern away”
A woman takes a drastic course of action
Harriet Skelton – “Chosen for death”
She paid for the crimes of others.
The D’Antraigues murders on Madame Gilflurt’s blog
Horrifying bloodshed at Barnes
Child-stripping and child stealing in the Regency
The clothes stolen children wore could be sold for profit
Black Georgians exhibition at Black Cultural Archives, Brixton
Showing until 9 April 2016
1793: Samuel Taylor Coleridge disappears from Cambridge
Whereabouts given away by a family friend
47 cases of infanticide at the Old Bailey
Stories of denial and desperation
The death of Frances Colpitts – Part 2
The outcome of the murder trial of Esther Hibner
The death of Frances Colpitts
How pauper Frances Colpitts came to be apprenticed to the Hibners.
1829: The cost of executing Jane Jameson
Newcastle was practically en fête
Sydney Smith to Georgiana Morpeth: Advice concerning low spirits
My favourite is “Read amusing books.”
James Scarlett, silver-tongued lawyer
A wit, and sometimes a little bit cruel with it.
Mary Ann Whitby: The role of the Regency nursemaid
Mary Ann Whitby was only thirteen when she arrived to take on duties as a nursemaid.
The remarkable gifts of Miss Margaret McAvoy
She claimed she could see through her fingers.
The premature and lamented death of Sir Samuel Romilly
Grief-stricken after his wife’s fatal illness.
John Townsend and the London Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb
First free school for the deaf in Britain
The Triple Obstetrical Tragedy: Sir Richard Croft
He could not recover from the death of Princess Charlotte
London Bill of Mortality 1743
29 people died of imposthume. No, me neither.