Galvanism – Frankenstein science and the dead!
Galvanism was a new science that brought the dead back to life – seemingly – and inspired the novel Frankenstein
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Prisoners infect judges with typhus – jail fever!
In 1750 three judges busily sentencing some criminals to death caught jail fever off them – and died of typhus a little while later
The gang that terrorised Georgian London!
We think of gangs as a modern day evil but Georgian London had its urban gangs like the Black Boy Alley crew as Tony McMahon discovers
Teenagers hanged in London – our brutal past!
Up until and including the 19th century, teenagers were hanged in London for all kinds of crimes including theft and counterfeiting