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Body snatching 1816; a bad year to be alive, or be dead. – About1816
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June 21, 2015. April 2, 2016. Body snatching 1816; a bad year to be alive, or be dead. During 1816, the Anatomy school of Great Marlborough Street would advertise their dissections of the human body every Thursday, as usual . These would be attended by medical students who needed the experience as part of their medical degree. Such human bodies were hard to come by; apart from the corpses of executed murderers; there was no other legal source. Family and relatives realised that time was the key; a speedy...
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Matthew Sheret – Page 2 – is someone who types things
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I'm a writer and editor. These days you've probably met me through the Government Digital Service. Where I help people talk about the things they're doing to build better digital public services. I used to be the Data Griot at Last.fm. And I've worked for people like Poetica. I used to do a lot of comics-related stuff. Too, and edited the anthology Paper Science. Email me at matthew.sheret@gmail.com. Find me elsewhere on the internet - Twitter. This Is My Jam. Is someone who types things. The trigger, th...
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“The Detestable Crime”-Sodomy in the late Regency – About1816
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June 2, 2015. June 19, 2016. 8220;The Detestable Crime”-Sodomy in the late Regency. The Jury retired for ten minutes, and returned with a verdict of Guilty. Death. When the Prisoner heard the verdict pronounced against him, he fell into tears, and begged the Judge to recommend him to mercy on account of his family. (Morning Post). Http:/ rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/1816news.htm. Kissing and cuddling would earn you a flogging. What did Mary Smiths do in 1816? June 2, 2015 at 5:38 pm. Jane Austen's Mi...
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The Magna Carta-a version for everybody in 1816 – About1816
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July 15, 2015. July 15, 2015. The Magna Carta-a version for everybody in 1816. Charles James Fox still holding on tight to English liberties. The simplicity of the document was admired by some.Earl Stanhope asked the Commons to revise statute law to have simpler headings-like the Magna Charta. It seems from the debates that it was the structure of the document rather than the content that he admired so much. There is little evidence thought the reports of 1816 that many people had read it. However, both ...
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Two body snatchers- Ben Crouch and Joseph Naples – About1816
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August 5, 2015. April 27, 2016. Two body snatchers- Ben Crouch and Joseph Naples. Two Body Snatchers Ben Crouch and Joseph Naples. William Millard claimed complete ignorance of the gang but he was lying. He was a major supplier of bodies to Sir Astley Cooper, President of the Royal College of Surgeons and the gang knew it. The gang also had links with Sir Astley himself and the attack on William was a proxy warning to a man too eminent for them to threaten directly. The authorities’ mistake was to put hi...
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New Money 1816 – About1816
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April 26, 2015. May 9, 2015. You could sell good quality gold and silver coins when the intrinsic value of the metal was higher than the face value of the coin. Notice the word “old”. Due to silver’s softness, it could also be sweated-placed in a bag with other coins, shaken vigorously and the dust caused by the friction collected and sold. A Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811) attributed this practice to Jews- an interesting example of the enduring anti-Semitic prejudices. May 9, 2015 at 8:07 pm.
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jamesdhobsonuk – About1816
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October 14, 2016. October 14, 2016. Women’s rights and rape; a breakthrough in 1811 and a lesson for 2016? Two hundred years ago, rape was a capital crime and dealt with very severely. However, convictions were rare because of the nature of the questions that the women could be asked and the likelihood, as in other cases, that witnesses would be paid to defame those giving evidence. This second piece of evidence was ruled inadmissible and Harriet’s evidence stood. The new rule (called Hodgson) was ex...
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What did Mary Smiths do in 1816? – About1816
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June 6, 2015. July 15, 2015. What did Mary Smiths do in 1816? The Stories of Mary Smith 1816. In July, the Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette reported the death of a Bath women,Mary Smith, who died at home aged 68, after a long and painful illness, borne with Christian fortitude . She may or may not have been the same one who swore by the effects of HICKMAN’S COUGH DROPS. On the other side of the law, Mary Smith of Gnosall, Staffordshire was one of the twenty local citizens who subscribed to a society to ...
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Demanding Satisfaction; duelling in 1816 – About1816
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April 15, 2015. July 15, 2015. Demanding Satisfaction; duelling in 1816. Duelling was still happening in 1816. It was practised among a much broader social class than a century earlier, had no fixed rules and was not really regarded as a honourable thing to do, except by those doing it, and sometimes not even then. It was never legal in Scotland.But is still continued in our late Regency period. He took a day to locate Adolphus; it seemed that he may have left for France after the letter was dispatched&#...
