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86 relations: A Conspiracy of Paper, Act of Parliament, Alderman, Arthur Conan Doyle, BBC, Bertolt Brecht, Betrayal, Billboard (magazine), Billboard charts, Boningale, Cant (language), Capital punishment, Charles Cotton, Charles Hitchen, City of London, Clerkenwell, Cockney, Covent Garden, Daily Post (London newspaper), Daniel Defoe, David Liss, Debtors' prison, Elizabeth Adkins, England, Felony, Fence (criminal), Finchley Common, Guinea (coin), Hanging, Henry Fielding, Highwayman (song), Hot Country Songs, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Lords, Jack Sheppard, Jake Arnott, James Thornhill, Jimmy Webb, John Gay, Jonathan Wild, Joseph Blake (criminal), Liberty of the Mint, Lincoln's Inn Fields, List of executioners, Lord Chancellor, Lord Mayor of London, Mack the Knife, Middlesex, Mohocks, Moll Flanders, ..., Molly house, New Prison, Newgate Prison, Old Bailey, Order of the Garter, Paul Tobin (author), Pickpocketing, Privy council, Professor Moriarty, Robert Walpole, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Sherlock Holmes, Shropshire, Soho, South Sea Company, St Giles's Roundhouse, St Pancras Old Church, St Peter's Collegiate Church, Staffordshire, Temple Bar, London, The Beggar's Opera, The Highwaymen (country supergroup), The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great, The Phantom, The Threepenny Opera, The Valley of Fear, Theft, Thief-taker, Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, Tory, Tyburn, War of the Spanish Succession, Where's Jack?, Whigs (British political party), Wolverhampton, Wood Street Compter. Expand index (36 more) »
A Conspiracy of Paper
A Conspiracy of Paper is a historical-mystery novel by David Liss, set in London in the period leading up to the bursting of the South Sea Bubble in 1720.
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Act of Parliament
Acts of Parliament, also called primary legislation, are statutes passed by a parliament (legislature).
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Alderman
An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.
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Betrayal
Betrayal is the breaking or violation of a presumptive contract, trust, or confidence that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongst individuals, between organizations or between individuals and organizations.
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Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.
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Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of singles or albums in the United States and elsewhere.
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Boningale
Boningale is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England.
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Cant (language)
A cant (or cryptolect, or secret language) is the jargon or argot of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group.
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Capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.
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Charles Cotton
Charles Cotton (28 April 1630 – 16 February 1687) was an English poet and writer, best known for translating the work of Michel de Montaigne from the French, for his contributions to The Compleat Angler, and for the influential The Compleat Gamester attributed to him.
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Charles Hitchen
Charles Hitchen, also mentioned as Charles Hitchin in other sources, (c. 1675 – 1727) was a "thief-taker" (private policeman) and under-marshal of the City of London in the early 18th.
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City of London
The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.
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Clerkenwell
Clerkenwell is an area of central and north London, England.
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Cockney
The term cockney has had several distinct geographical, social, and linguistic associations.
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Covent Garden
Covent Garden is a district in Greater London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between Charing Cross Road and Drury Lane.
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Daily Post (London newspaper)
The Daily Post (1719-1771).
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Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe (13 September 1660 - 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy.
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David Liss
David Liss (born March 16, 1966) is an American writer of novels, essays and short fiction; more recently working also in comic books.
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Debtors' prison
A debtors' prison is a prison for people who are unable to pay debt.
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Elizabeth Adkins
Elizabeth Adkins (1696-1747) was a prominent figure in London's underworld during the early 18th century.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Felony
The term felony, in some common law countries, is defined as a serious crime.
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Fence (criminal)
A fence, also known as a receiver, mover, moving man, or thiefspawn, is an individual who knowingly buys stolen goods in order to later resell them for profit.
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Finchley Common
Finchley Common was an area of land in Middlesex, and until 1816 the boundary between the parishes of Finchley, Friern Barnet and Hornsey.
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Guinea (coin)
The guinea was a coin of approximately one quarter ounce of gold that was minted in Great Britain between 1663 and 1814.
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Hanging
Hanging is the suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck.
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Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the picaresque novel Tom Jones.
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Highwayman (song)
"Highwayman" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb, about a soul with incarnations in four different places in time and history: as a highwayman, a sailor, a construction worker on the Hoover Dam, and finally as a captain of a starship.
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Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States.
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House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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House of Lords
The House of Lords of the United Kingdom, also known as the House of Peers, is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Jack Sheppard
Jack Sheppard (4 March 1702 – 16 November 1724) was a notorious English thief and gaol-breaker of early 18th-century London.
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Jake Arnott
Jake Arnott (born 11 March 1961) is a British novelist and dramatist, author of The Long Firm and six other novels.
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James Thornhill
Sir James Thornhill (25 July 1675 or 1676 – 4 May 1734) was an English painter of historical subjects working in the Italian baroque tradition.
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Jimmy Webb
Jimmy Layne Webb (born August 15, 1946) is an American songwriter, composer, and singer.
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John Gay
John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club.
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Jonathan Wild
Jonathan Wild also spelled Wilde (1682 or 1683 – 24 May 1725) was a London underworld figure notable for operating on both sides of the law, posing as a public-spirited crimefighter entitled the "Thief-Taker General".
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Joseph Blake (criminal)
Joseph "Blueskin" Blake (baptised 31 October 1700 – 11 November 1724) was an 18th-century English highwayman and felon.
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Liberty of the Mint
The Mint was a district in Southwark, south London, England, on the west side of Borough High Street, around where Marshalsea Road is now located.
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Lincoln's Inn Fields
Lincoln's Inn Fields is the largest public square in London.
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List of executioners
This is a list of people who have acted as official executioners.
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Lord Chancellor
The Lord Chancellor, formally the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest ranking among those Great Officers of State which are appointed regularly in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking even the Prime Minister.
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Lord Mayor of London
The Lord Mayor of London is the City of London's mayor and leader of the City of London Corporation.
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Mack the Knife
"Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" (later known as "Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife") is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama Die Dreigroschenoper, or, as it is known in English, The Threepenny Opera.
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Middlesex
Middlesex (abbreviation: Middx) is an historic county in south-east England.
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Mohocks
The Mohocks were allegedly a gang of violent, well-born criminals that terrorized London in the early 18th century, attacking men and women alike.
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Moll Flanders
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders Who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Years a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her brother) Twelve Years a Thief, Eight Years a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest and died a Penitent (commonly known simply as Moll Flanders) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722.
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Molly house
Molly-house was a term used in 18th- and 19th-century England for a meeting place for homosexual men.
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New Prison
The New Prison was a prison located in the Clerkenwell area of central London between c.1617 and 1877.
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Newgate Prison
Newgate Prison was a prison in London, at the corner of Newgate Street and Old Bailey just inside the City of London.
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Old Bailey
The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly referred to as the Old Bailey from the street on which it stands, is a court in London and one of a number of buildings housing the Crown Court.
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Order of the Garter
The Order of the Garter (formally the Most Noble Order of the Garter) is an order of chivalry founded by Edward III in 1348 and regarded as the most prestigious British order of chivalry (though in precedence inferior to the military Victoria Cross and George Cross) in England and the United Kingdom.
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Paul Tobin (author)
Paul Tobin is an American comic writer who has written regularly for Marvel Comics since 2000.
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Pickpocketing
Pickpocketing is a form of larceny that involves the stealing of money or other valuables from the person of a victim without them noticing the theft at the time.
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Privy council
A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government.
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Professor Moriarty
Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character in some of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Robert Walpole
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman who is generally regarded as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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Royal College of Surgeons of England
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (abbreviated RCS and sometimes RCSEng), is an independent professional body and registered charity promoting and advancing standards of surgical care for patients, regulating surgery, including dentistry, in England and Wales.
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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Shropshire
Shropshire (alternatively Salop; abbreviated, in print only, Shrops; demonym Salopian) is a county in the West Midlands of England, bordering Wales to the west, Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, and Worcestershire and Herefordshire to the south.
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Soho
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London.
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South Sea Company
The South Sea Company (officially The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas and other parts of America, and for the encouragement of fishing) was a British joint-stock company founded in 1711, created as a public-private partnership to consolidate and reduce the cost of national debt.
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St Giles's Roundhouse
The St Giles's Roundhouse was a small roundhouse or prison, mainly used to temporarily hold suspected criminals.
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St Pancras Old Church
St Pancras Old Church is a Church of England parish church in Somers Town, Central London.
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St Peter's Collegiate Church
St Peter's Collegiate Church is located on the northern side of central Wolverhampton, England.
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Staffordshire
Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.
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Temple Bar, London
Temple Bar was the principal ceremonial entrance to the City of London on its western side from the City of Westminster.
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The Beggar's Opera
The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch.
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The Highwaymen (country supergroup)
The Highwaymen was an American country music supergroup, composed of four of the genre's biggest artists, known for their pioneering influence on the outlaw country subgenre: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.
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The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great
The Life and Death of the Late Jonathan Wild, the Great is a satiric novel by Henry Fielding.
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The Phantom
The Phantom is an American adventure comic strip, first published by Lee Falk in February 1936, now primarily published internationally by Frew Publications.
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The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) is a "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, with music by Kurt Weill and insertion ballads by François Villon and Rudyard Kipling.
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The Valley of Fear
The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Theft
In common usage, theft is the taking of another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.
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Thief-taker
In English legal history, a thief-taker was a private individual hired to capture criminals.
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Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield
Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, (23 July 1666 – 28 April 1732) was an English Whig politician.
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Tory
A Tory is a person who holds a political philosophy, known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalism and conservatism, which upholds the supremacy of social order as it has evolved throughout history.
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Tyburn
Tyburn was a village in the county of Middlesex close to the current location of Marble Arch and the southern end of Edgware Road in present-day London.
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War of the Spanish Succession
The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was a European conflict of the early 18th century, triggered by the death of the childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700.
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Where's Jack?
Where's Jack? is a 1969 film recounting the exploits of notorious 18th-century criminal Jack Sheppard and London "Thief-Taker General" Jonathan Wild.
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Whigs (British political party)
The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
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Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.
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Wood Street Compter
The Wood Street Compter (or Wood Street Counter) was a small prison within the City of London in England.
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