Armed with Sword and Scales
Title | Armed with Sword and Scales PDF eBook |
Author | Sascha Auerbach |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-12-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781108798464 |
In the mid-eighteenth century, author and magistrate Henry Fielding adjudicated cases of theft, assault, and public disorder from his London home on Bow Street. By the middle of the nineteenth century, Fielding's modest 'police office' had expanded to become the most prolific court system in Britain and the cornerstone of criminal and civil justice in the metropolis. Sascha Auerbach examines the fascinating history of this institution through the lens of 'courtroom culture' - the combination of formal statute and informal custom that guided everyday practice in the London Police Courts. He offers a new model for understanding the relationship between law, culture, and society in modern Britain and illuminates how the local courtroom became a crucial part of everyday life and thoroughly entangled with popular representations of justice and morality.
Nether World
Title | Nether World PDF eBook |
Author | Drew D. Gray |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2024-05-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1789148944 |
A new account of urban Victorian life told through the dubious day-to-day of London’s police courts. Nether World presents a rich, often humorous glimpse into everyday life in Victorian London through a revealing account of nineteenth-century police courts. People of all classes brought complaints to this court about those who had hurt, abused, or stolen from them—drunks, pickpockets, wife-beaters, and fraudsters—who were each in their turn judged by magistrates wielding broad summary powers. Delving into underexamined court records and the pages of a fast-developing newspaper industry, Drew D. Gray offers a fresh description of a vibrant, ever-changing metropolis and considers ongoing issues such as poverty, homelessness, violence, substance abuse, prostitution, and—of course—crime.
Journal of the Royal United Service Institution
Title | Journal of the Royal United Service Institution PDF eBook |
Author | Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies |
Publisher | |
Pages | 962 |
Release | 1868 |
Genre | Military art and science |
ISBN |
Da-Mi. [2] p., p. 313-664
Title | Da-Mi. [2] p., p. 313-664 PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Dwelly |
Publisher | |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | |
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Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard
Title | Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 906 |
Release | 1868 |
Genre | Military art and science |
ISBN |
Armour Never Wearies
Title | Armour Never Wearies PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Dawson |
Publisher | The History Press |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2013-08-05 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 0752494244 |
Armour Never Wearies is the first volume to bring together all the hitherto scattered evidence – archaeological, literary and artistic – for the forms and uses of scale and lamellar armours in the region west of the Ural Mountains throughout the 3,500 years during which these armours were used. The interpretation of this data is informed by the author’s long practical experience as a maker of arms and armour, martial artist and horseman. It offers systematic definitions and analysis of these often misunderstood forms of armour, along with detailed diagrams and instructions that will be of great use to any who wish to turn their hands to reconstruction. Along the way, this unique synthesis of evidence and interpretation debunks some myths that have arisen in recent years.
Journal of the Royal United Service Institution
Title | Journal of the Royal United Service Institution PDF eBook |
Author | Royal United Service Institution |
Publisher | |
Pages | 856 |
Release | 1868 |
Genre | |
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