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Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England
McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?
Half-Hours With the Highwaymen
Reproduction of the original: Half-Hours With the Highwaymen by Charles G. Harper
Botany Bay
This book digs deeper and sheds new light on the decision to start a colony in Australia. He examines the impact of the American War of Independence and Britain's shifting strategic aims, the role of ministerial incompetence and ambition, and the concerns of a turbulent society obsessed with law and order. In doing so, he questions several accepted ideas about how and why Britain set its sights on an Australian colony.
The King's Post
"The King's Post" is a historical book on facts relating to the Posts, Mail Coaches, Coach Roads, and Railway Mail Services of the City of Bristol from 1580 to the time of its writing in 1905. The book offers an excellent view on how the need to communicate necessitated the setting up of courier services in Bristol and their subsequent evolution in sophistry, and the impact of postal services. As well as the various technologies that came up as a result. It is authored by Robert Charles Tombs who served as Controller of the London Postal Service, and later Surveyor-Postmaster of Bristol.
Der neue Pitaval
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