When a genealogist discovers a criminal way back in the family tree, he or she needs to know how to trace that person. David Hawkings here offers practical in-depth guidelines for researching these cr...
How were criminal children dealt with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Over this hundred-year period, ideas about the way children should behave - and how they should be corrected when t...
Tracing Your Criminal Ancestors : A guide for Family Historians
Did you have a criminal in the family, an ancestor who was caught on the wrong side of the law? If you have ever had any suspicions about the illicit activ...
Bobby On The Beat : The True Story of a 1950s Policewoman
A fascinating slice of 1950s life Pamela Rhodes, tells her story of life as a policewoman in Bobby on the Beat. When Pam joined in the 1950s the force's female r...
Crime, Policing and Punishment in England , 1660 - 1914
Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660-1914 offers an overview of the changing nature of crime and its punishment from the Restoration to World War 1. It ...
Dark City : Murder, Vice, and Mayhem in Wartime London
The blackout went into effect three days before the declaration of war and transformed nocturnal London into a criminal's paradise. As the city pulled together in t...
A war is being waged on the streets of London. London is a city divided along invisible borders, hidden lines that separate borough from borough, postcode from postcode, even estate from estate. And crossing...
First published as a supplement to the periodical John Bull in the 1930's, this book aims to bring to the public notice the various scams used to con money from the unaware, ranging from doo...
London Underground Serial Killer : The Life of Kieran Kelly
The full story of the life and times of Kieran Patrick Kelly, the London Underground Serial Killer, who wandered up and down the Northern Line of the London Un...
The Profession of Violence : The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins
The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins, now a major film, starring Tom Hardy. Reggie and Ronnie Kray ruled London's gangland during t...
Violent London : 2000 Years of Riots,Rebels and Revolts
This title charts the story of London through centuries of popular insurrection and protest. It is a story of political acitivism expressed in street fighting and ...