Regency Reader

Regency Crime and Punishment: Bank of England Forgeries

By Anne | July 8, 2021 - 7:00 pm |July 19, 2021 Regency Crime and Punishment

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The New Bon Ton Magazine, 1818

Regency Reader Questions: Crime and Punishment in the Countryside

By Anne | July 30, 2020 - 7:34 am |August 17, 2020 Regency Crime and Punishment, Regency Reader Questions

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Regency Reader Question Getting away with murder in the Countryside… So, I gather there were ‘Runners’ and ‘Thief-Takers’ rather than a police force in Regency Continue →

Regency Crime and Punishment: The Murder of Mr. Steel

By Anne | April 22, 2020 - 8:08 am |May 6, 2020 Regency Crime and Punishment

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Mr. Steele was a business man, who owned a lavender farm in Feltham and a lavender water warehouse in the Strand on Catherine Street. Mr. Continue →

Regency Crime and Punishment: Poultry Compter

By Anne | December 20, 2019 - 6:48 am |January 13, 2020 Regency Crime and Punishment, Regency Hot Spots

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Petty criminals in London went to compters. Sometimes called counters, compters were small prisons for minor transgressors including religious dissenters, drunks, prostitutes, debtors, vagrants, homosexuals Continue →