Nether World
Crime and the Police Courts in Victorian London
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2024
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-854-1 (ISBN)
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-854-1 (ISBN)
Reveals the gritty, everyday lives of Victorian Londoners via the city’s police courts.
Nether World is a fascinating exploration of the everyday lives of Victorian Londoners through the city’s police courts, where people of all classes came to complain about those who had hurt, abused or stolen from them. To these courts were brought the capital’s drunks, pickpockets, wife-beaters and fraudsters, and they were judged by magistrates who wielded wide-ranging, summary powers. Drew D. Gray provides a rich, sometimes moving, often humorous glimpse into everyday life in Victorian London, told through the underexamined court records and the pages of a fast-developing newspaper industry. Nether World is a vivid picture of a vibrant, ever-changing metropolis and its people, and illuminates issues that still blight our modern city, such as poverty and homelessness, violence, substance abuse, prostitution and crime.
Nether World is a fascinating exploration of the everyday lives of Victorian Londoners through the city’s police courts, where people of all classes came to complain about those who had hurt, abused or stolen from them. To these courts were brought the capital’s drunks, pickpockets, wife-beaters and fraudsters, and they were judged by magistrates who wielded wide-ranging, summary powers. Drew D. Gray provides a rich, sometimes moving, often humorous glimpse into everyday life in Victorian London, told through the underexamined court records and the pages of a fast-developing newspaper industry. Nether World is a vivid picture of a vibrant, ever-changing metropolis and its people, and illuminates issues that still blight our modern city, such as poverty and homelessness, violence, substance abuse, prostitution and crime.
Drew D. Gray is Head of Culture (Humanities, Media, Performance) at the Faculty of Arts, Science & Technology, University of Northampton. His publications include London’s Shadows: The Dark Side of the Victorian City (2010). He authors a blog, thepolicemagistrate.blog, and has made a number of appearances on TV, radio and podcasts.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.03.2024 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 31 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78914-854-5 / 1789148545 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78914-854-1 / 9781789148541 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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