Victorian crime and punishment: everything you wanted to know
Drew Gray tackles listener question on crime, courts, policing, punishments and prisons in 19th-century Britain
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Could children be hanged in Victorian Britain? Were the streets of Dickensian London haunted by organised gangs, or opportunistic pickpockets? What tricks and tools did Victorian police have at their disposal? And was it possible to get a fair trial in the 19th century? In our latest Everything You Wanted to Know episode, historian Dr Drew Gray answers listener questions on crime and punishment in Victorian Britain.
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