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Upcoming talk: UGLY AS SIN – Women, looks and criminality

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Upcoming talks

Ugly as Sin: Women, looks and criminality in the Park Lane Murder
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Past talks

The Spectacular Downfall of a Victorian Detective

Chief Inspector Nathaniel Druscovich was the ‘golden boy’ of the Metropolitan Police detective division, who was caught up in a major corruption scandal and died in Vauxhall in disgrace. Druscovich appears as a character in Naomi’s recent true crime novel 13 Park Lane.

Mrs Meredith and the Convict Laundries of Vauxhall and Stockwell

Susanna Meredith was a Victorian philanthropist and social worker who established laundries for the employment of ex-convicts. The talk explores the history of laundry work as punishment and rehabilitation.

Under Fire: the wartime diaries of a Chelsea Volunteer Ambulance driver

Based around my book of the same name, this talk looks at the experiences of a debutante who joined the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service in Chelsea in the summer of 1940. 
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Stockwell War Memorial at 100

For Lambeth History Unlocked
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By Her Own consent: The Murder of Mary Ashford and Rape Culture in the Georgian Era

1817: After the man accused of the rape and murder of a young Birmingham servant was acquitted, outraged local gentlemen funded a private prosecution. So why did they also blame the victim for her own fate? 

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