Chronicles Newgate by Griffiths Arthur (366 results)

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Chronicles of Newgate From The Twelfth To The Eighteenth Century Volume 1. Book.

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Lovely hardcover that appears almost UNREAD! Very minor edgewear of the ust jacket otherwise this is a gift quality item. Arthur Griffiths was a British author, journalist, and former prison inspector whose professional experience gave him direct and intimate knowledge of the Victorian prison system and its history that few writers on criminal and penal subjects could match. His career as an inspector of prisons brought him into direct contact with the institutions, personnel, and populations of the British penal system, providing him with a fund of firsthand observation and practical knowledge that informed his subsequent writing on criminal history and prison life with an authenticity and authority derived from personal professional experience rather than purely secondhand research. This background made him a natural and well qualified chronicler of the history of Britain's most famous and storied penal institution. Chronicles of Newgate is a comprehensive historical account of Newgate Prison, the notorious London gaol that stood for centuries as the primary place of imprisonment and execution in the capital and accumulated over its long history an extraordinary density of dramatic, sordid, and historically significant associations. Newgate's history stretched from its origins as a medieval gatehouse prison through its various rebuildings and expansions to its eventual demolition in 1902, encompassing along the way an almost incomprehensible accumulation of human suffering, notorious criminality, celebrated escapes, public executions, and encounters with some of the most dramatic figures in the history of English crime and punishment. The book draws on an extensive range of historical sources including court records, contemporary accounts, prison registers, and the published memoirs and observations of those who had direct experience of the institution as prisoners, warders, or visitors, weaving these diverse materials into a narrative that moves chronologically through the history of the prison while also addressing thematically the various aspects of prison life and penal practice that Newgate exemplified across different periods of its existence. The public execution outside Newgate's walls was for centuries one of the most dramatic and socially significant spectacles of London life, drawing enormous crowds and generating a vast popular literature of broadsides, pamphlets, and published accounts that Griffiths draws upon to reconstruct the atmosphere and human reality of these events. The abolition of public hanging in 1868 marked a significant turning point in the history of the institution and in broader attitudes toward punishment and public spectacle, and Griffiths addresses this transition and its implications with the informed perspective of someone who had witnessed the later Victorian prison system at close quarters. The writing combines the narrative accessibility of a practiced journalist and popular historian with the authority of professional experience, producing a work that serves simultaneously as serious historical documentation and as genuinely compelling reading for anyone drawn to the darker and more dramatic corners of English social and legal history. Chronicles of Newgate remains a valuable and frequently consulted source for historians of crime, punishment, and London social history, representing one of the more substantial and enduring contributions to the rich literature surrounding one of the most famous addresses in the history of English criminal justice.…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Chronicles of Newgate From The Twelfth To The Eighteenth Century Volume 2. Book.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Chronicles of Newgate. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Braken Books, London, 1987. Hard cover. Book Condition :Very good, clean text, Superb illustrations. Heavy book may incur extra postage. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #BL015488. N/A (illustrator).

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. First Thus. Hardcover, cloth spine over red paper covered boards, in original dust-jacket. 596pp., Index. Illustrated with facsimile engravings after the original nineteenth-century edition. First edition thus, first printing with full number line, by this publisher. "A histroy of England's most notorious goal, its famous criminals and their infamous crimes, and the tortures, executuons and punishments practiced there." Written by one of H.M. Inspector's of Prisons, one of a myriad of reformers who finally, in 1881, succeeded in getting Newgate shut down. An excellent commentary on the historical practices and practical consequences of of early penology. Parenthetically, Griffith's book was written 119 years after Cesare Beccaria's landmark treatise on penal reform, published in Italy in 1764. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, unmarked copy, near as new. Very fine in a very fine dust-jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

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