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Bedlam: London and Its Mad by Catharine Arnold
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'Bedlam!' The very name conjures up graphic images of naked patients chained among filthy straw, or parading untended wards deluded that they are Napoleon or Jesus Christ. We owe this image of madness to William Hogarth, who, in plate eight of his 1735 Rake's Progress series, depicts the anti-hero in Be ...Show more
Underworld London: City of Crime: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City by Catharine Arnold
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Beginning with an atmospheric account of Tyburn, we are set up for a grisly excursion through London as a city of ne'er do wells, taking in beheadings and brutality at the Tower, Elizabethan street crime, cutpurses and con-men, through to the Gordon Riots and Highway robbery of the 18th century and the ...Show more
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