Author: Judith Rowbotham
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137317973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Drawing together examples from broadsheet and tabloid newspapers this account of English crime reportage takes readers from the late eighteenth century to the present day. In the post-Leveson world, it is a timely and engaging contextualisation of the history of printed crime news and investigative journalism.
Crime News in Modern Britain
Author: Judith Rowbotham
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137317973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Drawing together examples from broadsheet and tabloid newspapers this account of English crime reportage takes readers from the late eighteenth century to the present day. In the post-Leveson world, it is a timely and engaging contextualisation of the history of printed crime news and investigative journalism.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137317973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Drawing together examples from broadsheet and tabloid newspapers this account of English crime reportage takes readers from the late eighteenth century to the present day. In the post-Leveson world, it is a timely and engaging contextualisation of the history of printed crime news and investigative journalism.
Execution Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain
Author: Patrick Low
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000095819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK, many specifically related to the fundamental change in capital punishment culture as the execution moved from the public arena to behind the prison wall. By examining a period of dramatic change in punishment practice, this collection of essays provides a fresh historical perspective on nineteenth century execution culture, with a focus on Scotland, Wales and the regions of England. From Public Spectacle to Hidden Ritual has two parts. Part 1 addresses the criminal body and the witnessing of executions in the nineteenth century, including studies of the execution crowd and executioners’ memoirs, as well as reflections on the experience of narratives around capital punishment in museums in the present day. Part 2 explores the treatment of the execution experience in the print media, from the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. The collection draws together contributions from the fields of Heritage and Museum Studies, History, Law, Legal History and Literary Studies, to shed new light on execution culture in nineteenth century Britain. This volume will be of interest to students and academics in the fields of criminology, heritage and museum studies, history, law, legal history, medical humanities and socio-legal studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000095819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK, many specifically related to the fundamental change in capital punishment culture as the execution moved from the public arena to behind the prison wall. By examining a period of dramatic change in punishment practice, this collection of essays provides a fresh historical perspective on nineteenth century execution culture, with a focus on Scotland, Wales and the regions of England. From Public Spectacle to Hidden Ritual has two parts. Part 1 addresses the criminal body and the witnessing of executions in the nineteenth century, including studies of the execution crowd and executioners’ memoirs, as well as reflections on the experience of narratives around capital punishment in museums in the present day. Part 2 explores the treatment of the execution experience in the print media, from the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. The collection draws together contributions from the fields of Heritage and Museum Studies, History, Law, Legal History and Literary Studies, to shed new light on execution culture in nineteenth century Britain. This volume will be of interest to students and academics in the fields of criminology, heritage and museum studies, history, law, legal history, medical humanities and socio-legal studies.
Classified
Author: Christopher R. Moran
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107000998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Fascinating account of the British state's post-war obsession with secrecy and the ways it prevented secret activities from becoming public.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107000998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Fascinating account of the British state's post-war obsession with secrecy and the ways it prevented secret activities from becoming public.
The Return Of Captain John Emmett
Author: Elizabeth Speller
Publisher: Virago
ISBN: 074812697X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
1920. The Great War has been over for two years, and it has left a very different world from the Edwardian certainties of 1914. Following the death of his wife and baby and his experiences on the Western Front, Laurence Bartram has become something of a recluse. Yet death and the aftermath of the conflict continue to cast a pall over peacetime England, and when a young woman he once knew persuades him to look into events that apparently led her brother, John Emmett, to kill himself, Laurence is forced to revisit the darkest parts of the war. As Laurence unravels the connections between Captain Emmett's suicide, a group of war poets, a bitter regimental feud and a hidden love affair, more disquieting deaths are exposed. Even at the moment Laurence begins to live again, it dawns on him that nothing is as it seems, and that even those closest to him have their secrets . . .
Publisher: Virago
ISBN: 074812697X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
1920. The Great War has been over for two years, and it has left a very different world from the Edwardian certainties of 1914. Following the death of his wife and baby and his experiences on the Western Front, Laurence Bartram has become something of a recluse. Yet death and the aftermath of the conflict continue to cast a pall over peacetime England, and when a young woman he once knew persuades him to look into events that apparently led her brother, John Emmett, to kill himself, Laurence is forced to revisit the darkest parts of the war. As Laurence unravels the connections between Captain Emmett's suicide, a group of war poets, a bitter regimental feud and a hidden love affair, more disquieting deaths are exposed. Even at the moment Laurence begins to live again, it dawns on him that nothing is as it seems, and that even those closest to him have their secrets . . .
The Making of Modern Britain
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This highly illustrated volume traces the social and cultural history of Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This highly illustrated volume traces the social and cultural history of Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Life in Modern Britain
Author: Peter Bromhead
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Life in Modern Britain is an introductory discussion of British life and institutions and is intended for advanced students of English. The fifth edition has been extensively revised and incorporates the social, economic and political developments in Britain during the late 1970s. -4e de couv.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Life in Modern Britain is an introductory discussion of British life and institutions and is intended for advanced students of English. The fifth edition has been extensively revised and incorporates the social, economic and political developments in Britain during the late 1970s. -4e de couv.
Contemporary Britain
Author: Peter Catterall
Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781855219007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Contemporary Britain: An Annual Review contains some 40 essays of analysis and review of the contemporary scene, from health to housing to agriculture to the arts, written by academics who are experts in their field and leading journalists.
Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781855219007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Contemporary Britain: An Annual Review contains some 40 essays of analysis and review of the contemporary scene, from health to housing to agriculture to the arts, written by academics who are experts in their field and leading journalists.
Crime News in Modern Britain
Author: Judith Rowbotham
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137317973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Drawing together examples from broadsheet and tabloid newspapers this account of English crime reportage takes readers from the late eighteenth century to the present day. In the post-Leveson world, it is a timely and engaging contextualisation of the history of printed crime news and investigative journalism.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137317973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Drawing together examples from broadsheet and tabloid newspapers this account of English crime reportage takes readers from the late eighteenth century to the present day. In the post-Leveson world, it is a timely and engaging contextualisation of the history of printed crime news and investigative journalism.
Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England
Author: Garthine Walker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139435116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
An extended study of gender and crime in early modern England. It considers the ways in which criminal behaviour and perceptions of criminality were informed by ideas about gender and order, and explores their practical consequences for the men and women who were brought before the criminal courts. Dr Walker's innovative approach demonstrates that, contrary to received opinion, the law was often structured so as to make the treatment of women and men before the courts incommensurable. For the first time, early modern criminality is explored in terms of masculinity as well as femininity. Illuminating the interactions between gender and other categories such as class and civil war have implications not merely for the historiography of crime but for the social history of early modern England as a whole. This study therefore goes beyond conventional studies, and challenges hitherto accepted views of social interaction in the period.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139435116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
An extended study of gender and crime in early modern England. It considers the ways in which criminal behaviour and perceptions of criminality were informed by ideas about gender and order, and explores their practical consequences for the men and women who were brought before the criminal courts. Dr Walker's innovative approach demonstrates that, contrary to received opinion, the law was often structured so as to make the treatment of women and men before the courts incommensurable. For the first time, early modern criminality is explored in terms of masculinity as well as femininity. Illuminating the interactions between gender and other categories such as class and civil war have implications not merely for the historiography of crime but for the social history of early modern England as a whole. This study therefore goes beyond conventional studies, and challenges hitherto accepted views of social interaction in the period.
50 Facts Everyone Should Know About Crime and Punishment in Britain
Author: Adam Lynes
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447343824
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Are you the kind of person who watches crime drama and real-life crime documentaries on television? Are you fascinated by the twists and turns of justice and the law? But how much do you really know about key issues in crime, crime control, policing and punishment in the UK? This exciting, dynamic and accessible book, written by leading experts, presents 50 key facts related to crime and criminal justice policy in Britain. Did you know that, contrary to public belief, in the UK a life sentence does actually last for life? And that capital punishment in the UK was abolished for murder in 1965 but the Death Penalty was a legally defined punishment as late as 1998? Offering thought-provoking insights into the study of crime, this fascinating “go to” book is packed with facts and figures revealing the myths and realities of crime in contemporary Britain.
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447343824
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Are you the kind of person who watches crime drama and real-life crime documentaries on television? Are you fascinated by the twists and turns of justice and the law? But how much do you really know about key issues in crime, crime control, policing and punishment in the UK? This exciting, dynamic and accessible book, written by leading experts, presents 50 key facts related to crime and criminal justice policy in Britain. Did you know that, contrary to public belief, in the UK a life sentence does actually last for life? And that capital punishment in the UK was abolished for murder in 1965 but the Death Penalty was a legally defined punishment as late as 1998? Offering thought-provoking insights into the study of crime, this fascinating “go to” book is packed with facts and figures revealing the myths and realities of crime in contemporary Britain.