We are inundated this year with anniversaries, jubilees, centenaries, bicentenaries and a large international sports festival. It’s a shame that some are in danger of being overlooked. One such, perhaps, is the assassination of Spencer Perceval (1762 – 1812) on 11 May 1812, our only Prime Minister to suffer this fate. Perceval was shot at [...]
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Spencer Perceval
Posted in Georgian period, Crime, Government, tagged Prime minister, Ealing, Spencer Perceval, Perceval, John Bellingham, Assassination on 7 May, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Review: Mr Briggs’ Hat
Posted in Book Reviews, Crime, Literature, Public Transport, Reviews, Victorian period, tagged crime and punishment, history, london, murder on 18 November, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A murder, an investigation, a chase, a court case, an execution. That’s what this book is about. On 9 July 1864, Mr Thomas Briggs – a senior bank official in the City – was murdered while travelling home to Hackney on a train from Fenchurch Street. It was the first ever murder on Britain’s railways [...]
Richard Dadd at Orleans House Gallery
Posted in Crime, Victorian period, tagged bedlam, Broadmoor Hospital, history, london, london historians, orleans house gallery, Richard Dadd on 23 August, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Some London Historians arranged to meet for lunch today in Twickenham and then venture to the nearby Orleans House Gallery to see the Richard Dadd (1817 – 1886) exhibition, which runs until 2 October. It’s just a 20 minute drive for me, so I took the bold step of inviting myself along. Despite the proximity [...]
Save Classics at Royal Holloway
Posted in 20th Century, Crime, Victorian period, tagged Boris Rankov, Classics, Mary Beard, Royal Holloway University of London, Save Classics at Royal Holloway, Thomas Holloway on 1 July, 2011 | 7 Comments »
I was shocked to discover yesterday, initially via Twitter, that Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) intends to close its Classics Department, ostensibly to save money. I did my degree in Ancient & Medieval History at RHUL between 1990 – 93, albeit in the History faculty. But we did several modules in the Classics department [...]
Execution of a Baby Farmer
Posted in Crime, Victorian period, tagged Amelia Dyer, Baby farming, history, london, murder, newgate prison, Old Bailey on 10 June, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1896, Amelia Dyer – having been tried and found guilty at the Old Bailey – was hanged at Newgate prison for murder. Her victim was a baby called Doris Marmon. But baby Doris was one of possibly hundreds of babies murdered by Dyer in her role as a “baby farmer”. Baby [...]
“Adept Rogues”: The Great Gold Robbery of 1855
Posted in Crime, Uncategorized, Victorian period, tagged Crime and Justice, great gold robbery 1855, history, london, Paris, Robbery on 15 May, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today marks the anniversary of the Great Gold Robbery of 1855. It appears to be every bit of the epic caper as covered in the 1979 Michael Crichton movie the Great Train Robbery. Perhaps, in the annals of crime, no more romantic circumstances ever occurred than in the case of the great bullion robbery on [...]
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