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Trials at the Old Bailey, Hangings at Tyburn, Famous Criminals, Mobs and the Pillory Early Encounters with Highwaymen Crime and Punishment (1701-1703) Crime and Punishment (1718-1719) Crime and Punishment (1730) Arson and Extortion Robbers and Footpads Murder Jail Breakers Military Punishments The Fight against Crime A Hard Case Sharpers Crime Wave, 1728 Proposal to Prevent Robberies Barbarous Cruelties Provincial Hangings Scenes at the Gallows Newgate Prison Transportation and other Punishments Shoplifting Coining Informers Highwaymen Housebreakers Smugglers Pickpockets Rogues’ Gallery Jonathan Wild Viragos Jack Sheppard, Jail-Breaker Catherine Hayes (burned alive for murdering her husband) Burnworth and his Gang Captain Jane and his Cabin Boy Moll Harvey The Rape Master General Moll Freeman Half-hanged Harding Dick Turpin Lieutenant Edward Bird

Love and Marriage, Abandoned Children, Rape and Infanticide, Sodomites and the Drury Lane Ladies The Dunmowe Flitch of Bacon The Pleasures and Pains of Marriage Rape Women of Pleasure Abandoned Children Infanticide Sodomites Self-Abuse and Gleets The Reformation of Manners Mothers and Children The Rape of Girls Suppression of Night-Houses Mother Needham Sow-Gelder Tries to Spay His Wife Remarkable Unions Bawdy Houses Incest

Popular Amusements from Bear-Baiting to Fashionable Assemblies, Races, Magicians, Music, Plays and Literature, and the Latest Fashions Bear-Baiting and Cock-Fighting Foot-Racing Boxing and Prize-Fighting Royal Ceremonies and Civic Celebrations Theatrical Performances Cherokee Indians visit London in 1730 Book Advertisements Diversions and Assemblies Waxworks and Models Music and Opera Magicians At the Playhouse Contortionists and other Performers The Death of Mother Gin Gambling Bartholomew Fair & Southwark Fair The Latest Fashions Bawdy Literature Masquerades Football

Bills of Mortality, Suicides, Natural Catastrophes, Horrid Accidents and Funeral Customs Bills of Mortality Suicides Accidental Deaths and Injuries                 Casualties Natural Catastrophes Funerals and Mourning Customs Funeral of Earl Stanhope Buried Alive Old Age Grave Robbery

Health and Beauty and Advertisements for Quack Medicines Panaceas A Cure for Gout Cures for Venereal Disease Haemorrhoides, Hernia, Bad Teeth and Other Ailments Treatment of Lunatics Cleanliness An Ear Operation Elixirs and Tinctures Medical Experiments Mrs Mapp the Bone-Setter False Teeth Smallpox

Daily Life, Work and Poverty, Runaway Apprentices and Slaves, Commerce, Trade and Bankruptcy Getting Rid of Bed-Bugs Runaway Apprentices and Lost Dogs Negroes and Slaves Work and Poverty Vagrants and Beggars Commerce and Trade The Weavers Accidents and Quarrels Maunday Thursday Customs Debtors Dead Drunk Gypsies Rewards Offered Charity Wages

Religion, Witchcraft, Jews, French Protestants Witchcraft French Huguenot Refugees The Jews The Quakers The Freemasons The Hell Fire Club Roman Catholics

Scientific Inventions, Wonders of Nature and Monstrous Births Science and Learning                             Wonders of Nature Comets The Rabbit Woman (1726) Peter the Wild Boy Monstrous Births

Politics and Public Order May Fair Riots The Jacobites The Devil, the Pope and the Pretender Definition of Whig and Tory Tumult in Glasgow Sedition and Libel Press Gangs Down with the Irish! The Saucy Coachman A Printer in the Pillory Insolent Behaviour Lewd and Disorderly A Hue and Cry after the Pretender