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All this week on fifteeneightyfour we are reconstructing the lives of eighteenth century Londoners who feature in, London Lives a new book which examines the daily lives of the poor and criminal in eighteenth century London, including thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen, and shows how their actions influenced the pace and direction of change in social policy.
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Jane Vobe, b. 1775 The fifth of six children of a pauper family, Jane Vobe was cared for by her parish for six years, until she ran away from her apprenticeship. Family and Early Life Jane Vobe, the daughter of Jane and Thomas Vobe, was born in the parish of St Martin in the Fields […]
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Throughout the week we will feature a ‘life in a day’, beginning with Charlotte Walker, a recidivist pickpocket who was rarely punished Charlotte Walker, c. 1754-1806 Charlotte Walker was a prostitute and pickpocket who had a long and eventful career in the St Giles area of London.[1] Over a twenty-four year period, Charlotte appeared twelve times […]
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With three villagers hanged on charges of witchcraft, nearby churches were set on a mission to discourage their parishioners from falling into the darker arts of witchcraft via annual sermons during the superstitious age of 16th Century England.
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In February 2014 we were approached and asked if we would prepare a new edition of J.C. Holt’s landmark book on Magna Carta, first published to accompany the seven hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Great Charter, for republication at the beginning of the eight hundredth anniversary. Since 2011 Jim Holt had been so physically […]
Read MoreJames Melton, co-editor of Magna Carta and Its Modern Legacy, explains why we should not just celebrate the birth of Magna Carta, but also its death.
Read MoreAs the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta approaches, Mark Hill QC, the co-editor of Magna Carta, Religion and the Rule of Law, discusses what Magna Carta means for religions worldwide today.
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Moshe Milevsky, author of King William's Tontine (2015), looks back to 17th Century finance for 21st Century economic solutions.
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