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Tag Archives: Crime
Is eating people always wrong?
In my 3rd and final post on this wacky world of Victorian legal cases related to murders, we travel back to September 1884 in Falmouth on the SW coast of England when three rather emaciated sailors disembarked from their ship, … Continue reading
The terrible murder of Fanny Adams which gives us a phrase we still use today.
Last I wrote about the attempted murder of Victorian Prime Minister Robert Peel that led to the concept that people suffering from extreme mental illness, may not be responsible for their acts. This was a time of great reform in … Continue reading
Did a lunatic try to kill a Prime Minister Robert Peel or was it all a cover story?
Most people know Sir Robert Peel as the man who founded the first modern police force in the world, London’s Metropolitan Police. It must have been a good move as he went on to become Prime Minister, living in the … Continue reading
Posted in history, London
Tagged Assassination, Crime, Daniel M'Naghten, Edward Drummond, Insanity, Murder, Robert Peel, Westminster, Whitehall
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Mind The Gap – Someone pushed me under a London Underground Train!
If not your worst nightmare, it’s probably one that ranks near the very top of the worst nightmare list but on Friday morning, I got pushed and fell down the gap between a London Underground tube train and the platform. … Continue reading
Posted in Life, London, News
Tagged Accidents, Crime, Death, Injury, Knighthood, London Underground, Mind The Gap, The Tube
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Station Squabble – A fist fight between two London mice!
You don’t have to go to far on my blog to find some of the tough and murky history of East London. Whatever else you have to look out for in the East-End, even I had presumed the mice and … Continue reading
Posted in Life, London, Photography, Travel
Tagged Crime, Farringdon, London, London Underground, Mice, Natural History Museum, wildlife
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Modern day Grave Robbers who stole from my mothers grave
I wasn’t going to write anything today; I’ve had a chest infection which turned into bronchitis and then manifested itself into something like pneumonia for the last 10-12 weeks. I have been out of the house only a handful of … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Religion and Faith
Tagged All Saints Church, Crime, Death, Flowers, Leavesden, Mourning, sadness, Stealing, Theft, Thieves, Watford
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James Bulger 25 years on – the crime that shocked the nation.
25 years ago this week, a crime shook Britain and the city of Liverpool in particular with such revulsion that no-one who was alive at the time will ever forget. It was a crime where society sank to a new … Continue reading
Posted in history, Life, News, Opinion
Tagged Bootle, Crime, James Bulger, Jon Venables, Liverpool, Murder, Robert Thompson
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Shad Thames and Jacobs Island – The Venice of Drains
This my second post resulting from my scouting out a new tour I have been wanting to start offering to my lovely tourists. As well as the regular tourist hotspots, I really enjoy taking people to the lesser visited parts … Continue reading
Posted in history, Life, London, Travel, Ye Olde England Tours
Tagged Bermondsey, Charles Dickens, Crime, Jacobs island, Long reads, River Neckinger, Rotherhithe, Slums
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101 Most Horrible Tortures In History (my new book!)
Today is a big day for me, I’m launching my new book on Kindle and Paperback formats! 101 Most Horrible Tortures In History takes a wry look at history, torture and bizarre punishments of times past and just a bit of … Continue reading
Posted in history, writing
Tagged 101 Most Horrible Tortures In History, books, Crime, Death, Ebook, history, Horror, ibooks, Kindle, Life, New book launch, Torture
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Dick Turpin Highwayman – Stand and Deliver
For millennia, travelling by land across the British Isles was a dangerous and slow business. Most people when they could travelled by boat on rivers and along the sea-coast and later by canals. Travelling by land was a slow and … Continue reading
Posted in Cool Britannia, history, Popular Culture
Tagged Adam Ant, Crime, Dick Turpin, Epping Forest, Highwaymen, history, Life, London, Murders, Muskets, UK, Whitechapel, York
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