Underworld London

Beginning with an atmospheric account of Tyburn, we are set up for a grisly excursion through London as a city of ne''er do wells, taking in beheadings and brutality at the Tower, Elizabethan street crime, cutpurses and con-men, through to the Gordon Riots and Highway robbery of the 18thcentury and the rise of prisons, the police and the Victorian era of incarceration. As well as the crimes, Arnol...