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152 relations: A Conspiracy of Paper, A Letter to Lord Ellenborough, A Spectacle of Corruption, A Tale of Two Cities, Amelia Dyer, Ancient Rome, Architecture terrible, Barnaby Rudge, Ben Jonson, Benefit of clergy, Bernard Cornwell, Buffalo, New York, C. J. Sansom, Canisius College, Catherine Murphy (counterfeiter), Catherine Wilson, Chaplain, Charles Dickens, Charles Nordhoff, Christopher Wren, City of London, Claude Duval, Cockney, Convicts in Australia, Coventry Patmore, Daniel Defoe, Dark Fire (Sansom novel), David Liss, Death by burning, Defamation, Donald Serrell Thomas, Drogheda, Duel, Edmund Berry Godfrey, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Edward I of England, Elizabeth Cellier, Elizabeth Fry, Erica Jong, Execution Dock, Executor, Flashman's Lady, Fleet Prison, Forever Amber, Gabriel Spenser, Gallows, Gallows Thief, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Barrington, George Dance the Younger, ..., George MacDonald Fraser, Giacomo Casanova, Gold dust robbery, Gordon Riots, Great Expectations, Great Fire of London, Hanged, drawn and quartered, Henry II of England, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Iceland, Ikey Solomon, Jack Sheppard, Jack the Ripper, Jackie French, James MacLaine, James Norman Hall, Jørgen Jørgensen, John Bellingham, John Bernardi, John Bradford, John Cook (regicide), John Ellis (executioner), John Frith, John Gay, John Law (economist), John Rogers (Bible editor and martyr), John Walter (publisher), Jonathan Barnes, Joseph O'Connor, Joseph Wall (colonial administrator), Kathleen Winsor, Keith Miles, King of the Wind, L.A. Meyer, Le Morte d'Arthur, Leon Garfield, London Wall, Lord George Gordon, Lord Mayor of London, Louis L'Amour, Marguerite Henry, Mary Frith, Mary Wade, Michael Barrett (Fenian), Michael Crichton, Miles Prance, Moll Flanders, Neal Stephenson, Newgate, Newgate novel, Old Bailey, Oliver Plunkett, Oliver Twist, Ordinary of Newgate's Account, Our Lady, Star of the Sea, Owen Suffolk, Paul Lorrain, Pennsylvania, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Plunkett & Macleane, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Prison, Privateer, Quakers, Richard Whittington, Robert Southwell (Jesuit), Robinson Crusoe, Sheriff, Sketches by Boz, Society of Jesus, Spencer Perceval, St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Drogheda, T. C. Boyle, Tasmania, The Baroque Cycle, The Beggar's Opera, The Canterbury Tales, The Cook's Tale, The Great Train Robbery (novel), The Newgate Calendar, The Peripheral, The Somnambulist, The Times, The Wachowskis, The Wake of the Lorelei Lee, Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams, Thomas Bambridge, Thomas Lloyd (stenographer), Thomas Malory, Thomas Neill Cream, Titus Oates, Tyburn, V for Vendetta, Van Diemen's Land, Wapping, Water Music (novel), William Chaloner, William Cobbett, William Gibson, William Godwin, William Kidd, William Penn. Expand index (102 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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A Letter to Lord Ellenborough
"A Letter to Lord Ellenborough" is a pamphlet written in 1812 by Percy Bysshe Shelley in defence of Daniel Isaac Eaton.
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A Spectacle of Corruption
A Spectacle of Corruption is a historical-mystery novel by David Liss, set in 18th century London.
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A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.
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Amelia Dyer
Amelia Elizabeth Dyer (née Hobley; 1837 – 10 June 1896) was one of the most prolific serial-killers in history, murdering infants in her care over a 20-year period in Victorian Britain.
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Ancient Rome
In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.
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Architecture terrible
Architecture terrible was a style of architecture advocated by French architect Jacques-François Blondel in his nine-volume treatise Cours d'architecture ou traité de la décoration, distribution et constructions des bâtiments contenant les leçons données en 1750, et les années suivantes (1771–77).
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Barnaby Rudge
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (commonly known as Barnaby Rudge) is a historical novel by British novelist Charles Dickens.
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Ben Jonson
Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and literary critic, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy.
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Benefit of clergy
In English law, the benefit of clergy (Law Latin: privilegium clericale) was originally a provision by which clergymen could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead in an ecclesiastical court under canon law.
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Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell, OBE (born 23 February 1944) is an English author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign.
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Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.
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C. J. Sansom
Christopher John "C.J." Sansom is a Scottish-born writer of historical crime novels.
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Canisius College
Canisius College was founded in 1870 by members of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) from Germany and is named after St. Peter Canisius.
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Catherine Murphy (counterfeiter)
Catherine Murphy (died 18 March 1789) (also known as Christian Murphy) was an English counterfeiter, the last woman in England to be officially burned at the stake.
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Catherine Wilson
Catherine Wilson (1822 – 20 October 1862) was a British serial killer who was hanged for one murder, but was generally thought at the time to have committed six others.
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Chaplain
A chaplain is a cleric (such as a minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, or imam), or a lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution such as a hospital, prison, military unit, school, business, police department, fire department, university, or private chapel.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.
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Charles Nordhoff
Charles Bernard Nordhoff (February 1, 1887 – April 10, 1947) was an American novelist and traveler, born in England.
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Christopher Wren
Sir Christopher Wren PRS FRS (–) was an English anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist, as well as one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.
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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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Claude Duval
Claude Du Vall (164321 January 1670) was a French-born, gentleman highwayman in post-Restoration Britain.
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Cockney
The term cockney has had several distinct geographical, social, and linguistic associations.
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Convicts in Australia
Between 1788 and 1868, about 162,000 convicts were transported by the British government to various penal colonies in Australia.
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Coventry Patmore
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (23 July 1823 – 26 November 1896) was an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happy marriage.
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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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Dark Fire (Sansom novel)
Dark Fire is a historical mystery novel by British author C. J. Sansom.
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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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Death by burning
Deliberately causing death through the effects of combustion, or effects of exposure to extreme heat, has a long history as a form of capital punishment.
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Defamation
Defamation, calumny, vilification, or traducement is the communication of a false statement that, depending on the law of the country, harms the reputation of an individual, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation.
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Donald Serrell Thomas
Donald Serrell Thomas (born 18 July 1934) is an English author of (primarily) Victorian-era historical, crime and detective fiction, as well as books on factual crime and criminals, in particular several academic books on the history of crime in London.
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Drogheda
Drogheda is one of the oldest towns in Ireland.
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Duel
A duel is an arranged engagement in combat between two people, with matched weapons, in accordance with agreed-upon rules.
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Edmund Berry Godfrey
Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (23 December 1621 – 12 October 1678) was an English magistrate whose mysterious death caused anti-Catholic uproar in England.
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Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Edward Gibbon Wakefield (20 March 1796 – 16 May 1862) is considered a key figure in the early colonisation of South Australia and New Zealand.
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Edward I of England
Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots (Malleus Scotorum), was King of England from 1272 to 1307.
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Elizabeth Cellier
Elizabeth Cellier (commonly known as Mrs. Cellier and dubbed the "Popish Midwife"), flourished 1668–1688, London, England, was a notable Catholic midwife in seventeenth-century England.
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Elizabeth Fry
Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney, often referred to as Betsy; 21 May 1780 – 12 October 1845) was an English prison reformer, social reformer and, as a Quaker, a Christian philanthropist.
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Erica Jong
Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American novelist, satirist, and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying.
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Execution Dock
Execution Dock was a place in the River Thames near the shoreline at Wapping, London, that was used for more than 400 years to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers who had been sentenced to death by Admiralty courts.
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Executor
An executor is someone who is responsible for executing, or following through on, an assigned task or duty.
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Flashman's Lady
Flashman's Lady is a 1977 novel by George MacDonald Fraser.
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Fleet Prison
Fleet Prison was a notorious London prison by the side of the River Fleet.
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Forever Amber
Forever Amber (1944) is a historical romance novel by Kathleen Winsor set in 17th-century England.
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Gabriel Spenser
Gabriel Spenser, also spelled Spencer, (c. 1578 – 22 September 1598) was an Elizabethan actor.
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Gallows
A gallows (or scaffold) is a frame, typically wooden, used for execution by hanging.
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Gallows Thief
Gallows Thief (2001) is a historical mystery novel by Bernard Cornwell set in London, England in the year 1817, which uses capital punishment as its backdrop.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.
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George Barrington
George Barrington (14 May 1755 – 27 December 1804) was an Irish-born pickpocket, popular London socialite, Australian pioneer (following his transportation to Botany Bay), and author.
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George Dance the Younger
George Dance the younger, RA (1 April 1741 – 14 January 1825) was an English architect and surveyor as well as a portraitist.
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George MacDonald Fraser
George MacDonald Fraser OBE FRSL (2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was a Scottish author who wrote historical novels, non-fiction books and several screenplays.
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Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (or; 2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice.
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Gold dust robbery
The Gold dust robbery took place in 1839 in Falmouth, Cornwall.
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Gordon Riots
The Gordon Riots of 1780 was a massive anti-Catholic protest in London against the Papists Act of 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics.
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Great Expectations
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip.
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Great Fire of London
The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London from Sunday, 2 September to Thursday, 6 of September 1666.
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Hanged, drawn and quartered
To be hanged, drawn and quartered was from 1352 a statutory penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, although the ritual was first recorded during the reign of King Henry III (1216–1272).
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Henry II of England
Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Curtmantle (Court-manteau), Henry FitzEmpress or Henry Plantagenet, ruled as Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Nantes, King of England and Lord of Ireland; at various times, he also partially controlled Wales, Scotland and Brittany.
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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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Iceland
Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.
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Ikey Solomon
Isaac "Ikey" Solomon (1787? – 1850) was an English criminal who became an extremely successful receiver of stolen property.
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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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Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper is the best-known name for an unidentified serial killer generally believed to have been active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888.
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Jackie French
Jacqueline "Jackie" French (born 29 November 1953) is an award-winning Australian author who has written over 140 books and has won more than 60 national and international awards.
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James MacLaine
"Captain" James MacLaine (occasionally "Maclean", "MacLean", or "Maclane") (1724 – 3 October 1750) was a notorious highwayman with his accomplice William Plunkett.
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James Norman Hall
James Norman Hall (22 April 1887 – 5 July 1951) was an American author best known for the novel Mutiny on the Bounty with co-author Charles Nordhoff.
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Jørgen Jørgensen
Jørgen Jørgensen (name of birth: Jürgensen, and changed to Jorgenson from 1817)Wilde, W H, Oxford Companion to Australian Literature 2nd ed.
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John Bellingham
John Bellingham (176918 May 1812) was the assassin of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
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John Bernardi
Major John Bernardi (1657- 20 September 1736) was an English soldier, adventurer and Jacobite conspirator.
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John Bradford
John Bradford (1510–1555) was an English Reformer, prebendary of St. Paul's, and martyr.
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John Cook (regicide)
John Cook (1608 – 16 October 1660) was the first Solicitor General of the English Commonwealth and led the prosecution of Charles I. Following the English Restoration, Cook was convicted of regicide and hanged, drawn and quartered on 16 October 1660.
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John Ellis (executioner)
John Ellis (4 October 1874 – 20 September 1932) was a British executioner for 23 years, from 1901 to 1924.
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John Frith
John Frith (1503 – 4 July 1533) was an English Protestant priest, writer, and martyr.
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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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John Law (economist)
John Law (baptised 21 April 1671 – 21 March 1729) was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself and that national wealth depended on trade.
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John Rogers (Bible editor and martyr)
John Rogers (c. 1505 – 4 February 1555) was an English clergyman, Bible translator and commentator.
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John Walter (publisher)
John Walter (1738/39 – 17 November 1812) was the founder of The Times newspaper.
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Jonathan Barnes
Jonathan Barnes, FBA (born 26 December 1942 in Wenlock, Shropshire) is an English scholar of ancient philosophy.
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Joseph O'Connor
Joseph Victor O'Connor is an Irish novelist.
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Joseph Wall (colonial administrator)
Joseph Wall (1737–28 January 1802) was a British Army officer and Lieutenant Governor of Gorée, an island near Dakar, Senegal, who was executed in London for the fatal flogging of one of his soldiers.
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Kathleen Winsor
Kathleen Winsor (October 16, 1919 – May 26, 2003) was an American author.
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Keith Miles
Keith Miles (born 1940) is a writer of historical fiction and mystery novels.
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King of the Wind
King of the Wind is a novel by Marguerite Henry that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1949.
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L.A. Meyer
Louis A. Meyer (January 1, 1942 - July 29, 2014),Meyer, L.A., brief autobiography on author's own webpage.
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Le Morte d'Arthur
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur") is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table.
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Leon Garfield
Leon Garfield FRSL (14 July 1921 – 2 June 1996) was a British writer of fiction.
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London Wall
The London Wall was the defensive wall first built by the Romans around Londinium, their strategically important port town on the River Thames in what is now London, England, and subsequently maintained until the 18th century.
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Lord George Gordon
Lord George Gordon (26 December 1751 – 1 November 1793) was a British politician best known for lending his name to the Gordon Riots of 1780.
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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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Louis L'Amour
Louis Dearborn L'Amour (March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short-story writer.
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Marguerite Henry
Marguerite Henry née Breithaupt (April 13, 1902 – November 26, 1997) was an American writer of children's books, writing fifty-nine books based on true stories of horses and other animals.
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Mary Frith
Mary Frith (c. 1584 – 26 July 1659), alias Moll (or Mal) Cutpurse, was a notorious pickpocket and fence of the London underworld.
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Mary Wade
Mary Wade (17 Dec 1775 – 17 December 1859) was only 13 years old when transported to Australia as the youngest convict aboard ''Lady Juliana'' as part of the Second Fleet.
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Michael Barrett (Fenian)
Michael Barrett (184126 May 1868) was born in Drumnagreshial in the Ederney area of County Fermanagh.
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Michael Crichton
John Michael Crichton (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author, screenwriter, film director and producer best known for his work in the science fiction, thriller, and medical fiction genres.
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Miles Prance
Miles Prance (fl. 1678) was an English Roman Catholic craftsman who was caught up in and perjured himself during the Popish Plot and the resulting anti-Catholic hysteria in London during the reign of Charles II.
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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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Neal Stephenson
Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer and game designer known for his works of speculative fiction.
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Newgate
Newgate was one of the historic seven gates of the London Wall around the City of London and one of the six which date back to Roman times.
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Newgate novel
The Newgate novels (or Old Bailey novels) were novels published in England from the late 1820s until the 1840s that were thought to glamorise the lives of the criminals they portrayed.
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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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Oliver Plunkett
Oliver Plunkett (also spelt Oliver Plunket) (Oilibhéar Pluincéid), (1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland who was the last victim of the Popish Plot.
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Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is author Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837–39.
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Ordinary of Newgate's Account
The Ordinary of Newgate's Account was a sister publication of the Old Bailey's Proceedings, regularly published from 1676 to 1772 and containing biographies and last dying speeches of the prisoners executed at Tyburn during that period.
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Our Lady, Star of the Sea
Our Lady, Star of the Sea is an ancient title for the Virgin Mary.
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Owen Suffolk
Owen Hargrave Suffolk (4 April 1829 – ?) an Australian bushranger, poet, confidence-man and author of Days of Crime and Years of Suffering (1867).
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Paul Lorrain
Paul Lorrain (died 7 October 1719) was, for twenty-two years, the secretary, translator, and copyist for Samuel Pepys, and became well known as the Ordinary (chaplain) of Newgate Prison by standardising the publication of the gallows confessions of condemned prisoners.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 17928 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, and one of the most influential.
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Plunkett & Macleane
Plunkett & Macleane is a 1999 British historical action comedy film directed by Jake Scott, and starring Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Liv Tyler.
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Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (Frederick Augustus; 16 August 1763 – 5 January 1827) was the second son of George III, King of the United Kingdom and Hanover, and his consort Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
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Prison
A prison, also known as a correctional facility, jail, gaol (dated, British English), penitentiary (American English), detention center (American English), or remand center is a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state.
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Privateer
A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.
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Quakers
Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.
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Richard Whittington
Sir Richard Whittington (c. 1354–1423) was an English merchant and a politician of the late medieval period.
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Robert Southwell (Jesuit)
Robert Southwell (c. 1561 – 21 February 1595), also Saint Robert Southwell, was an English Roman Catholic priest of the Jesuit Order.
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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719.
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Sheriff
A sheriff is a government official, with varying duties, existing in some countries with historical ties to England, where the office originated.
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Sketches by Boz
Sketches by "Boz," Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People (commonly known as Sketches by Boz) is a collection of short pieces Charles Dickens originally published in various newspapers and other periodicals between 1833 and 1836.
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Society of Jesus
The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.
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Spencer Perceval
Spencer Perceval (1 November 1762 – 11 May 1812) was a British statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1809 until his assassination in May 1812.
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St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Drogheda
St.
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T. C. Boyle
Thomas Coraghessan Boyle, also known as T. C. Boyle and T. Coraghessan Boyle (born December 2, 1948), is an American novelist and short story writer.
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Tasmania
Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.
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The Baroque Cycle
The Baroque Cycle is a series of novels by American writer Neal Stephenson.
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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 Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales (Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.
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The Cook's Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer presumably never finished "The Cook's Tale" and it breaks off after 58 lines, although some scholars argue that Chaucer deliberately left the tale unfinished.
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The Great Train Robbery (novel)
The Great Train Robbery is a bestselling 1975 historical novel written by Michael Crichton.
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The Newgate Calendar
The Newgate Calendar, subtitled The Malefactors' Bloody Register, was a popular work of improving literature in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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The Peripheral
The Peripheral is a 2014 science fiction mystery-thriller novel by William Gibson.
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The Somnambulist
The Somnambulist is a 2007 fantasy/horror novel set in the late Victorian period, and is the debut novel by Jonathan Barnes.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.
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The Wachowskis
Lana Wachowski (formerly Laurence "Larry" Wachowski, born June 21, 1965) and Lilly Wachowski (formerly Andrew Paul "Andy" Wachowski, born December 29, 1967) are American film and TV directors, writers, and producers.
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The Wake of the Lorelei Lee
The Wake of the Lorelei Lee is a historical novel by L.A. Meyer.
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Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams
Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (often abbreviated to Caleb Williams) (1794) by William Godwin is a three-volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a tyrannical government.
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Thomas Bambridge
Thomas Bambridge (died c. 1750) was a notorious warden of the Fleet Prison in England.
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Thomas Lloyd (stenographer)
Thomas Lloyd (1756–1827), known as the “Father of American Shorthand,” was born in London on August 14 to William and Hannah Biddle Lloyd.
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Thomas Malory
Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1415 – 14 March 1471) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur (originally titled, The Whole Book of King Arthur and His Noble Knights of the Round table).
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Thomas Neill Cream
Dr.
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Titus Oates
Titus Oates (15 September 1649 – 12/13 July 1705), also called Titus the Liar, was an English perjurer who fabricated the "Popish Plot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II.
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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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V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta is a British graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd (with additional art by Tony Weare).
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Van Diemen's Land
Van Diemen's Land was the original name used by most Europeans for the island of Tasmania, now part of Australia.
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Wapping
Wapping is a district in London Docklands, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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Water Music (novel)
Water Music is the first novel by T. C. Boyle, first published in 1982.
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William Chaloner
William Chaloner (1650 – 22 March 1699) was a serial counterfeit coiner and confidence trickster, who was imprisoned in Newgate Prison several times and eventually proven guilty of high treason by Sir Isaac Newton, Master of the Royal Mint.
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William Cobbett
William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, farmer, journalist and member of parliament, who was born in Farnham, Surrey.
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William Gibson
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.
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William Godwin
William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist.
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William Kidd
William Kidd, also Captain William Kidd or simply Captain Kidd (c.1654 – 23 May 1701), was a Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean.
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William Penn
William Penn (14 October 1644 – 30 July 1718) was the son of Sir William Penn, and was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgate_Prison
