Regency Crime and Punishment – Page 3

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 →

Regency Crime and Punishment: Hangers On At Inns

By Anne | April 30, 2019 - 6:34 am |May 10, 2019 Regency Crime and Punishment, Regency Culture and Society, Regency Villains

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plate of children snatching a regency era ladies purse

The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard Against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1818) describes any manner of criminals and criminal activity a visitor to Town Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Clothes Balls

By Anne | March 26, 2019 - 7:16 am |April 2, 2019 Regency Crime and Punishment, Regency Household

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This ad appeared in the April 1815 issue of Ackermann’s Repository. I wasn’t able to find much more about this “valuable discovery” so if any Continue →