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  • Shoplifting in Eighteenth-Century England

    by Shelley Tickell ...
    Shoplifting in Eighteenth-Century England examines the nature and impact on society of this commercial crime at a time of rapid retail expansion during the long eighteenth century. As a new consumer culture took root in England and shops proliferated, the crime of shoplifting leaped to public prominence. In 1699 shoplifting became a hanging offence. Yet whether compelled by need or greed, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    by Clare Dyer, Marcel Berlins ...
    The authors explain and discuss how the justice system evolved, the way it operates - including vivid descriptions of the trial process - and how lawyers work. Revised and updated throughout for this fifth edition, THE LAW MACHINE surveys recent developments in the workings of justice and the outlook for the future. 'Refreshingly free of the patronizing attitude and the humbug with which other ... Read more

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  • The Crime Writers Casebook

    A Straightforward Guide

    by Stephen Wade, Stuart Gibbon ...
    A Straightforward Guide to The Crime Writer's Casebook is an essential research companion for all writers of crime fiction and non-fiction. The Crime Writer's Casebook is unique in that it presents first-hand explanations by Stuart Gibbon, a seasoned London Metropolitan Police detective with over 30 years' experience on the force, with additional commentary from Stephen Wade, a crime historian who ... Read more

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  • Trailblazing Women of the Georgian Era

    The Eighteenth-Century Struggle for Female Success in a Man's World

    by Mike Rendell ...
    Trailblazing Women of the Georgian Era offers a fascinating insight into the world of female inequality in the Eighteenth Century. It looks at the reasons for that inequality the legal barriers, the lack of education, the prejudices and misconceptions held by men and also examines the reluctance of women to compete on an equal footing. Why did so many women accept that a womans place was in the ... Read more

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  • Below Stairs

    Domestic Service Remembered in Dublin and Beyond, 1880-1922

    by Mona Hearn ...
    A hundred years ago sevants underpinned middle- and upper-class life in Ireland, and domestic service was the major source of employment for women before social conditions changed utterly after the First World War and labour-saving appliances took their place. Two generations on, the domestic servant is an almost extinct species. This book examines an area of life which has never been adequately ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tracing Your Criminal Ancestors

    A Guide for Family Historians

    by Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    A comprehensive introduction to researching British criminal history with information on national and local archives that family historians can use.Did you have a criminal in the family, an ancestor who was caught on the wrong side of the law? If you have ever had any suspicions about the illicit activities of your relatives, or are fascinated by the history of crime and punishment, this is the ... Read more

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  • The Ascent of the Detective

    Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England

    by Haia Shpayer-Makov ...
    The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public, and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both print and visual media. Yet, while much has been written in the last three decades about the history of uniformed policemen in England, no similar work has focused on police detectives. The Ascent of the Detective redresses this by ... Read more

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  • Sister Sleuths

    Female Detectives in Britain

    by Nell Darby ...
    Series series Trailblazing Women
    "A unique and inherently fascinating history that brings a particular aspect of the role of women in law enforcement up out of obscurity." — Midwest Book ReviewThe 1857 Divorce Act paved the way for a new career for women: that of the private detective. To divorce, you needed proof of adultery—and men soon realized that women were adept at infiltrating households and befriending wives, learning ... Read more

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  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In Dublin

    by Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    Tory gangs, madmen, war criminals, frauds, anarchists, duelists, kidnappers, and more scandal-makers throughout four centuries of Irish history.Dublin is a wonderful, energetic cultural center—the pride of Irish achievements in architecture, arts, and literature. But it is also a city of paradoxes and conflicts—and a long, fascinating history of crime.Stephen Wade now reveals Dublin's "strange ... Read more

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  • A Drink at the Bar

    A memoir of crime, justice and overcoming personal demons

    by Graham Boal ...
    A Drink at the Bar: A memoir of crime, justice and overcoming personal demons is the witty, opinionated and revealing memoirs of Judge Graham Boal QC, a criminal barrister for thirty years before serving as a judge for nine years until his retirement as a Permanent Judge at London's Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey, in 2005. Boal's career highlights included his being the legendary George ... Read more

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  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Shrewsbury and Around Shropshire

    by David J. Cox ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    Sixteen true crime cases with a connection to two West Midlands English towns from the Middle Ages to the early decades of the twentieth century.Criminal cases give us a fascinating, often harrowing insight into crime and the criminal mind, into policing methods and the justice system. They also tell us much about social conditions and attitudes in the past. And such cases make absorbing reading. ... Read more

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  • The A-Z of Victorian Crime

    by Neil R. A. Bell, Kate Clarke, M.W. Oldridge, Trevor Bond ...
    Few things are more evocative of Victorian Britain than its criminals; they are, together with railways, gas lamps and swirling fog, vital ingredients in any Victorian melodrama. The truth, however, was often stranger, more thrilling and more horrifying than fiction. In this book, four eminent crime historians reveal the realities of this aspect of Victorian life, illuminating not just the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD