Download or read book The Life of Dick Turpin the Highwayman written by Richard Turpin and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Genuine History of the Life of Richard Turpin Communicated by Mr Richard Bayes at the Green Man on Epping Forest and Other Persons of that County written by Richard Turpin and published by . This book was released on 1739 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Dick Turpin written by J. A. Sharpe and published by Profile Books(GB). This book was released on 2005 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost everything people know about Dick Turpin and highwaymen is myth. The historical truth is much nastier, more brutal and bloody. As Dick Turpin went to the scaffold in York in 1739 he was determined to look his best. The previous day he had had a new frock coat and pumps delivered to him in the condemned man's cell in York Castle Prison. And he paid £3 and 10 shillings for five men to act as mourners. Who was this notorious highwayman and why did he become so famous? What did he do to become the subject of such extraordinary myths? Most of all, why are highwaymen romantic figures? We have highwayman now: we call them muggers and car-jackers and we don't sing ballads about them or eulogise them for their brave exploits. This is a masterly biography of one of Britain's best-known criminals - but it is also an examination of the cult of the highwayman, of crime in the 18th century and the treatment of criminals. In the absence of any police force how were crimes solved? Who did the detective work? And did the criminals get a fair trial - an important question if you were going to hang from the neck for a relatively minor misdemeanour. Was there a criminal underclass and did people really live in terror of going on the roads at night? Looking at the underbelly of society and the nastier aspects of life that many historians ignore, James Sharpe creates a vivid picture of life on the edges in 18th century Britain.
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Download or read book The Life of Dick Turpin written by Samuel Keys and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short and fast moving account of the life of the famous English highwayman, Dick Turpin, (1705 - 1739). Faithful to the original 1840 publication by Samuel and John Keys and illustrated throughout, this is a read you won't want to miss. Have a "Look Inside".
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Download or read book Dick Turpin written by Jonathan Oates and published by Pen and Sword True Crime. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin have such an extraordinary reputation today? How come his criminal career has inspired a profusion of often misleading literature and film? This eighteenth-century villain is often portrayed as a hero – dashing, sinister, romantic, daring, a Robin Hood of his times. The reality, as Jonathan Oates reveals in this perceptive, carefully researched study, was radically different. He was a robber, torturer and killer, a gangster whose posthumous reputation has eclipsed the truth about his life. In the early 1700s Turpin progressed from butcher’s apprentice and poacher to become a member of the Gregory gang which terrorized householders around London by robbery and violence. Then came his two-year career as a highwayman robbing travelers, his partnership with Matthew King whom he may have killed in Whitechapel, his murder Thomas Morris in Epping Forest, and his eventual capture and execution. Jonathan Oates recounts the episodes in Turpin’s short, brutal life in dramatic detail, basing his narrative on contemporary sources – trial records and newspapers in particular – and he traces the development of the Turpin legend over 250 years through novels, ballads, plays, television and film. The Dick Turpin who emerges from this rigorous and scholarly biography is in many ways a more interesting man than the legend suggests.
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