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London's Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720 - c. 1930

A Social and Cultural History

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  • © 2015

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  1. Heather Shore

    1. Leeds Beckett University, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Heather Shore
    Pages 1-24

  3. ‘Now we have the Informing Dogs!’: Crime Networks and Informing Cultures in the 1720s and 1730s

    • Heather Shore
    Pages 25-48

  4. ‘A Noted Virago’: Moll Harvey and her ‘Dangerous Crew’, 1727–1738

    • Heather Shore
    Pages 49-69

  5. ‘The pickpockets and hustlers had yesterday what is called a Grand Day’: Changing Street Theft, c. 1800–1850

    • Heather Shore
    Pages 70-92

  6. ‘There goes Bill Sheen, the Murderer’: Crime, Kinship and Community in East London, 1827–1852

    • Heather Shore
    Pages 93-116

  7. ‘A new species of swindling’: Coiners, Fraudsters, Swindlers and the ‘Long-Firm’, c. 1760–1913

    • Heather Shore
    Pages 117-140

  8. ‘A London Plague that must be swept away’: Hooligans and Street Fighting Gangs, c. 1882–1912

    • Heather Shore
    Pages 141-166

  9. ‘The Terror of the People’: Organised Crime in Interwar London

    • Heather Shore
    Pages 167-190

  10. Conclusion

    • Heather Shore
    Pages 191-195

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 196-286
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About this book

This book offers an original and exciting analysis of the concept of the criminal underworld. Print culture, policing and law enforcement, criminal networks, space and territory are explored here through a series of case studies taken from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Leeds Beckett University, UK

    Heather Shore

About the author

Heather Shore is a Reader in History at Leeds Beckett University, UK. She is the author of Artful Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth Century London (1999) and has co-edited two books, with Pamela Cox, Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650–1950 (2002) and with Tim Hitchcock, The Streets of London: From the Great Fire to the Great Exhibition (2003).

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