Subject Index: Social Crime

Smuggling and the like.

Walter Virgo and the Blakeney Gang

Type: Pamphlet
By Ian Wright,
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Walter Virgo and the Blakeney These are some of the headlines which started appearing in the Gloucester Citizen and Western Daily Press in the 1890s. This pamphlet will try and get by behind the headlines and reveal what was really going on in the Blakeney area of the Forest of Dean the time. THE BLAKENEY OUTRAGES “WORSE THAN IRELAND” - THE... More →

Smugglers 2: The West Country

Type: Event
Date:
With: Kevin Davis, Dave Cullum,
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Smugglers: Radicals Or Romantic - Kevin Davis Easton Cowboy and refugee from Dorset, Kevin claims to have left his life of wrecking and smuggling behind in his hometown of Poole. But who knows? 'Official' history tells us that the smugglers of the 18th and 19th century were shadowy, brutal thugs, a threat to the economy, law and order and moral... More →

Smugglers 1: Custom Becomes Crime

Type: Event
Date:
With: Trevor Bark, Jim McNeill, Roger Ball,
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Custom Becomes Crime, Crime Becomes Culture: The Sea Related Informal Economies From Feudalism To Capitalism - Trevor Bark Troublemaker and academic from the North East, Trevor is on the editorial board of Capital and Class. He is an expert on the social history of crime and author of papers such as 'Crime becomes Custom, Custom becomes... More →

The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the 18th Century

Type: Book Review
Edward Thompson | Past and Present | No. 50, 1971 | Book Type:
This paper is famous, so I thought I better read it and I was not disappointed. Thompson is at his cheeky best, starting the article by taking the piss out of anthropologists and their complex analyses of 'exotic' cultures whilst the English working class is reduced to disorganised, amoral, sub-humans by historians. Thompson analyses the corn and... More →