Newgate Calendar

[ElizabethHerts]

This is fun! You can look up all sorts of crimes and search for people.

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/completenewgate.htm

[ElizabethHerts]

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/newgate4/smithf.htm

You couldn't make this up!

[Georgette]

What a brilliant find, Elizabeth :)

[Jill]

That's one to while away the long winter evenings!

The Museum of London has cell doors from the old Newgate prison, very atmospheric.