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In 1736, the Gin Act, introduced heavy excise duties on gin production, and licensing to restrict its distribution, to try… READ MORE
DANIEL MALDEN was a prison-breaker, who emulating the exploits of jack Sheppard, twice escaped the condemned cell in Newgate Prison… READ MORE
“One Brown, a Prisoner, returning from Hick’s Hall to Bridewel, passing thro’ Clerkenwell Church Yard, desir’d his Keeper to let… READ MORE
As previously recounted on this blog, theatres were a leading arena for riots during the seventeenth century. 1737 saw significant… READ MORE
It wasn’t much of a bomb… In July 1736 an explosive device went off in the Court of Chancery in… READ MORE
Mary Harvey was an innkeeper, a notorious owner of disorderly houses in the 1720s and 1730s. She worked in the… READ MORE
As we wrote in a previous post, the satirical magazine, the Craftsman, opposed to the corrupt regime of prime minster… READ MORE
“The army, it was said, could not be relied on because the soldiers believed that tobacco would be raised in… READ MORE
On 8th January 1731, Richard Francklin was arrested, as printer of the Craftsman, a political journal dedicated to attacking the… READ MORE
"People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
~ Rogers Hornsby
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