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Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain

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For example, we no longer take such a harsh view of sex outside marriage. Adams quotes the case of Henry Wharton and Elizabeth Mason who were condemned for the 'crime' of begetting a 'base born childe'. Stripped naked to the waist, they were paraded through the streets of their Middlesex village and flogged repeatedly. Strictly fans AGREE with Shirley Balls as she 'rips Layton Williams to shreds' by insisting actor finds American Smooth 'difficult' Would YOU be able to tell these doughnuts are healthier? From Double Chocolate to Peanut Caramel Protein and Strawberry Cheesecake - these treats all have less, fat, sugar AND calories Royals warned of careless talk around Harry': King Charles was 'cautious' in conversation with his second son after his memoir Spare

This gory history of crime shows that our obsession with lurid podcasts is nothing new . . . Adams, a police officer turned historian, has poured over coroners’ inquest records, court documents, pamphlets, newspaper articles, parish archives, ballads, wills, letters and diaries to restage nine grim stories of crime in England between 1500 and 1700. As an ex-copper, Adams is greatly interested in developments in forensic pathology in this period, which are superbly reconstructed from the sources’ The Times - Paris Hilton's special meaning behindnewborn daughter's name London after surprising fans with baby arrival announcement Sindercombe had been hired to kill England's Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, but he proved an incompetent assassin, botching the job several times before being captured. Girls Aloud 'WILL perform Glastonbury in honour of late bandmate Sarah Harding and take to the stage for the festival's ICONIC legends slot'SARAH VINE: Royal biographer Omid Scobie may be a leech... but the treachery of Harry was so much worse I love reading about true crime, & I love history too, so this book was an absolute got-to-read for me. This is a true crime book with a difference, the crimes are from the 1500 & 1600s in England (roughly from the early reign of Henry VIII to the start of William & Mary's reign). The author does a great job of explaining the English justice system of the time & how things worked, which was very interesting to read, alongside showing societal prejudices. The second case aptly highlights the double standards of the time: young women who were in domestic service were often taken advantage of by the men of the household & then turned outdoors when they became pregnant. They were then reviled by the rest of society including their neighbours for their 'moral failings', whilst guess what happened to the men? That's right, usually absolutely nothing. If the women should miscarry or their baby not survive for long, they then ran the risk of being prosecuted for murder, even if there was little evidence. One wonders just how many lives were needlessly cut short during this time. Doctor Who 60th Anniversary: Fans go WILD for David Tennant and Catherine Tate's long-awaited return: 'I have missed them so much!' In the opening chapter of her grimly fascinating book, Adams draws upon the popular literature of the day to tell the story in vivid detail. Strictly's Bobby Brazier reveals the two words he would say to his late mother Jade Goody as he dedicates emotional dance to her

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Grimly fascinating…vivid detail… The early moderns were obsessed by stories of death, crime and justice,’ Adams states in her introduction. Her book, which covers the two centuries between 1500 and 1700, proves her point with a succession of grisly but engrossing cases’ Daily Mail - Until last year Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC was a judge at the Old Bailey, sitting on criminal cases, trying mainly allegations of murder and other homicide. When she moved to the Old Bailey in 2012 she was the only woman amongst sixteen judges, and only the third woman ever to hold a permanent position there. She was also a Diversity and Community Relations Judge, working to promote understanding between the judiciary and many different sectors of our community, particularly those from less privileged and minority groups. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey is her first book. Through six extraordinary stories, she explores why we kill, what happens in court and what this teaches us about the society we live in. In early modern England, crime was often brutal and so were the punishments. The public were fascinated and enthralled by the secrets and scandals behind the crimes and turned up in their thousands to watch the resulting executions. Their appetite for true crime was fed by the cheap news pamphlets that sensationalised the stories and whipped up public anger against individuals or sections of society. In this book, Adams uses examples culled from court and coroner records, news sheets and from letters and journals to examine how crimes were dealt with investigatively and through the criminal justice system, and how victims and criminals were perceived by the public. She argues that this period, 1500-1700, saw the beginnings of a secular, scientific approach to investigation, with increasing reliance on physical evidence, influenced by the cultural changes that accompanied the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. And she shows that, while we may no longer gather to watch gruesome public executions, the public fascination with crime and punishment hasn’t altered much in the intervening centuries. It seems that there is a tendency to view the obsession with true crime as some kind of modern depravity, a symptom of societal breakdown. But as this book shows, humans have been obsessed with death and murder for centuries (likely millennia). The sensational and sad have always fascinated us. This book outlines a series of cases that highlight broader trends in law and crime and the public's reaction to them.In thrilling narrative, we follow a fugitive killer through the streets of London, citizen detectives clamouring to help officials close the net. We untangle the mystery of a suspected staged suicide through the newly emerging science of forensic pathology. We see a mother trying to clear her dead daughter's name while other women faced the accusations - sometimes true and sometimes not - of murdering their own children.

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