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A man unjustly condemned to transportation finds that thieves thieve, but sometimes decency shines through too.
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After Thomas Miles Richardson (1784-1848), via the British Museum. © The Trustees of the British Museum, shared under licence CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
On his visits to Durham Gaol, prison reformer John Howard found conditions that were all too familiar.
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In eighteenth-century England, the death penalty was the solution to almost any crime.
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The politicians of Georgian England went to surprising lengths to shield domestic businesses from overseas competition.
By Thomas Hudson (1701-1779), Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
A thief was reluctantly obliged to relieve King George II of his valuables.
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A Welshman was not keen on handing over his employer’s money just because Tom Dorbel had a gun.
By Isaac Robert Cruikshank (1789–1856), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Karl Philipp Moritz described three kinds of criminal in Georgian England, from the gentlemanly cutpurse to the deadly footpad.