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Criminal Londoners
Tuesday 24 April 2007 10am-4.30pm
£30 / £20 concessions
London Metropolitan Archives, 40, Northampton Road, London, EC1R 0HB
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10am Arrival and Coffee
10.30am LMA Collections
Andy Lott
An introduction to LMA collections relating to criminal Londoners including Middlesex Sessions Records, Old Bailey,
Transportation, prints and drawings
11.45am Trouble in Turnmill Street
Dr Gillian Spraggs
In Shakespeare's time Turnmill Street, Clerkenwell, was the wildest, bawdiest street in London. Dr Gillian Spraggs explores the colourful history of Elizabethan and Jacobean Clerkenwell as revealed in the Middlesex Sessions records and other documents at LMA.
2.15pm Prisons and Prisoners in London .
Linda Carey
Using original material held at LMA, this session explores the life, time and experiences of prisoners held in some of London’s most notorious institutions.
3.15pm The King’s Bench
Ruth Paley
This talk concentrates on the criminal jurisdiction of the court of King's Bench. King's Bench was the highest court of criminal law in England and Wales
and it is a common fallacy to assume that it therefore dealt only with serious cases involving tangled questions of law. In reality it heard an eclectic mix of
cases and for Londoners in particular it offered an attractive alternative to the Middlesex Sessions. Until the mid 19th century Londoners flocked to the
King's Bench to prosecute everything from ruined pavements and disorderly houses to assault, fraud, libel and riot. The records (held at the National
Archives) provide a rich source for everyday London life that is as yet virtually untouched by historians (amateur or professional).
4.15pm Final questions and close
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