Download or read book Law and Order in Georgian Bedfordshire written by Eric Stockdale and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These five essays on issue of law and order grew out of the author's earlier research on local crime for his book on Bedford Prison (BHRS vol. 56). The first essay recounts the riots following the enactment of the Militia Act 1757. The second is a short biography of the Rev. Philip Hunt, rector of St Peter's Bedford from 1799, who accompanied firstly Lord Elgin to Greece, and secondly the 6th Duke of Bedford to Ireland as his secretary and chaplain. Following his appointment as a justice of the peace in Bedfordshire, Hunt concerned himself with the running of Bedford prison and penal reform. Samuel Whitbread II is the subject of the third and fourth essays. Appeals to him from prisoners awaiting transportation leads to a discussion of the conditions in the hulks. The unfortunate consequences of his attempts to raise the level of literacy of militiamen is also recounted. Finally, there is a brief account of local law and order in the 1830s which led to the establishment of the county police force in 1840.
Download or read book Crime Justice and Discretion in England 1740 1820 written by Peter King and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-09-28 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The criminal law has often been seen as central to the rule of the eighteenth-century landed élite in England. This book presents a detailed analysis of the judicial processs - of victims' reactions, pretrial practices, policing, magistrates hearings, trials, sentencing, pardoning and punishment - using property offenders as its main focus. The period 1740-1820 - the final era before the coming of the new police and the repeal of the capital code - emerges as the great age of discretionary justice, and the book explores the impact of the vast discretionary powers held by many social groups. It reassesses both the relationship between crime rates and the economic deprivation, and the many ways that vulnerability to prosecution varied widely across the lifecycle, in the light of the highly selective nature of pretrial negotiations. More centrally, by asking at every stage - who used the law, for what purposes, in whose interests and with what social effects - it opens up a number of new perspectives on the role of the law in eighteenth-century social relations. The law emerges as less the instrument of particular élite groups and more as an arena of struggle, of negotiation, and of compromise. Its rituals were less controllable and its merciful moments less manageable and less exclusively available to the gentry élite than has been previously suggested. Justice was vulnerable to power, but was also mobilised to constrain it. Despite the key functions that the propertied fulfilled, courtroom crowds, the counter-theatre of the condemned, and the decisions of the victims from a very wide range of backgrounds had a role to play, and the criteria on which decisions were based were shaped as much by the broad and more humane discourse which Fielding called the 'good mind' as by the instrumental needs of the propertied élites.
Download or read book Law Economy and Society 1750 1914 written by Gerry R. Rubin and published by Abingdon, Oxon : Professional Books Limited. This book was released on 1984 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Restitution of Cultural Property and the Law written by Christa Roodt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-12-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book adopts a novel approach to the social question of restitution and repatriation of sacred cultural property and heritage acquired unethically during the colonial era. It uses an approach premised on better integration of law, ethics, history, anthropology, and provenance research. To bridge the material and the sacred world in adjudication and policy formulation, a common definition of what the ‘sacred’ denotes in the context of colonial legacies is adopted as a viable methodology. ‘Sacred’ loot in private and public collections is defined based on clues imparted by disputes which are paradigmatic of the fragmentation that envelops the material, the systems of knowledge associated with that material, the structure and method of international law, subject specialisations, and the legal frameworks in play. The book suggests that the Parthenon Sculptures dispute and the parallel transnational litigation in the Zhanggong Zushi Statue cases offer practical approaches for deconstructing hurdles and assumptions concerning historical claims in the secondary legal norms and tenets of PrIL. It will be of interest to researchers interested in interdisciplinary work across the humanities and social sciences, including public and private international law, cultural property law, heritage law, and provenance research and practice.
Download or read book The Bedfordshire Farm Worker in the Nineteenth Century written by Nigel E. Agar and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of extracts from Parliamentary Papers and documentary material in Bedfordshire County Record Office to describe the life of the farm worker in nineteenth-century Bedfordshire. A general overview is followed by sections concerned with the poor law, the life of the labourer, migration and emigration, housing, access to land and education, and the Agricultural Labourers' Union. The volume begins with a tribute In Memoriam to Harold Owen White, secretary of BHRS 1965-1980.
Download or read book Rethinking the Age of Reform written by Arthur Burns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a look at the 'age of reform', from 1780 when reform became a common object of aspiration, to the 1830s - the era of the 'Reform Ministry' and of the Great Reform Act of 1832 - and beyond, when such aspirations were realized more frequently. It pays close attention to what contemporaries termed 'reform', identifying two strands, institutional and moral, which interacted in complex ways. Particular reforming initiatives singled out for attention include those targeting parliament, government, the law, the Church, medicine, slavery, regimens of self-care, opera, theatre, and art institutions, while later chapters situate British reform in its imperial and European contexts. An extended introduction provides a point of entry to the history and historiography of the period. The book will therefore stimulate fresh thinking about this formative period of British history.
Download or read book Old Warden written by Christine A. Hill and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating look at the development and restoration of the nineteenth-century Swiss Garden and nearby Old Warden village.
Download or read book Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society written by Bedfordshire Historical Record Society and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Policing and Prosecution in Britain 1750 1850 written by Douglas Hay and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English law was almost unique in that most prosecutions were brought by the police rather than by public prosecutors. This book examines why they acquired that power, what was its social significance, and what was distinctive about its evolution, compared with policing in Scotland and Ireland.
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Download or read book Consumption and Culture in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by John Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Antiquaries Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The New England Historical and Genealogical Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Download or read book Policing Provincial England 1829 1856 written by David Philips and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1999 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most profound social changes in the 19th century was the transition to a policed society, with a professional police force. This study of the parish constabulary before its marginalization and the development of county policing, considers the role of the police in civil liberty.
Download or read book Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walpole in Power written by Jeremy Black and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid account of the leader who shaped 18th century English politics and culture focuses on his 20 years in office.
