The 19th Century saw London become the world's biggest city. Railways, industry and immigration all swelled the ranks. And, with the ending of transportation to Australia, criminals also increased the ...
A corset with inflatable bust and an anti-garrotting cravat are among a series of designs found in the National Archives' and turned into a book called Inventions that Didn't Change the World By ...
How odd that Charlie Porter should have written about capes (“Cloak and swagger”, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, December 24) when he clearly does not know how to wear one. The lanyards of a cape are long ...
A Conservative backbencher stunned the Commons today when he suggested upping the penalty for fly-tippers – and “garrotting” them. And Sir Desmond Swayne recommended using the offenders’ own ...
A New Forest MP has joked about garrotting fly-tippers with their intestines. Sir Desmond Swayne, Conservative MP for New Forest West has spoken out on punishing fly tippers at a recent debate in the ...
A New Forest MP has joked about garrotting fly-tippers with their intestines. Sir Desmond Swayne, Conservative MP for New Forest West has spoken out on punishing fly tippers at a recent debate in the ...
A robber seizes a man from behind while his companion threatens him with a club The 19th Century saw London become the world's biggest city. Railways, industry and immigration all swelled the ranks.
It described garrotting as "an epidemic, like a new plague" and speculated the technique was learned from prison guards who would corral their wards in such a way. "They consort in companies of three ...
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