You can guess what they mostly relate to.
human interest
Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: terms for women
Not many were complimentary.
Eliza Fenning: Guest post at All Things Georgian
Innocent but proved guilty.
1817: Margaret Thatcher dies in Soho Square
She was shown compassion, but it was a pitiful demise.
1816: The knife murderer of Shabbington
A murderous attack. An inevitable execution.
1816: The year without a summer
Hunger, riots – and feats of imagination
1810: Annette Paris overdoses on laudanum
Traumatised, mentally disturbed and deeply unhappy
John Keate and the Eton riot of 1818
We’re posh and we’re angry
Luddite attacks in Stockport: Mrs Goodair runs for her life
Disturbances across the country
Child-stealing: The case of Thomas Dellow
Missing for 8 weeks.
1812: A man goes drinking, a child goes missing
A trip to Bristol goes wrong.
1803: A fatal duel at Chalk Farm (no romance involved)
Macho behaviour. Age-old story.
1809: A royal visit to the Great Synagogue of London
To witness a Jewish service of worship
1807: The execution of Holloway and Haggerty: tragedy upon tragedy
Wrongful conviction, followed by execution and multiple deaths.
Life in the King’s Bench Prison
It looked OK but it was really not.
Pride and chemistry: The good work of Professor Klaproth
Chemistry backs up liberal ideas.
The escape of prisoners from Newgate
1816: six men escape on to the roof of Newgate prison.
“Liberty is the greatest blessing” – Eleanor Clift, poor but perfectly informed
Eleanor Clift conducts a one-woman crusade against corruption & greed in public office.
Body snatching in Clerkenwell
1818: An inquisitive child in Clerkenwell makes an alarming discovery.
The murder trial of Robert Hallam
1731: The trial of Robert Hallam for the murder of his heavily pregnant wife Jane who was thrown from a window
The death of an orphan chimney sweep in Somers Town
The plight of London’s chimney sweep apprentices.
A prisoner dies of starvation in Tothill-fields bridewell
The death of John Burden appals the coroner.
1817: Poverty and distress leads to tin miner’s death in a field
The suicide of a Cornishman and the grisly fate of his body.
Regency medicine: Pickling a female head
Regency medicine, 1817: The Lord Mayor helps a sailor when his mother’s head goes missing after she dies in St Thomas’s hospital.
