The Chronicles of Newgate (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. True Crime Cases Through The CenturiesBy Arthur Griffiths
Length28h 8m
About this audiobook
Arthur Griffiths's The Chronicles of Newgate (Vol. 1&2) is a capacious history of London's most notorious prison, tracing its evolution from medieval gaol to emblem of metropolitan crime, punishment, and public spectacle. Combining archival narrative, institutional history, anecdote, and moral commentary, Griffiths writes in the energetic Victorian documentary style, attentive to notorious trials, prison discipline, executions, and the shifting theories of criminal justice. The work belongs to a nineteenth-century tradition of penal history that sought to make the prison legible as both social institution and moral warning. Griffiths was unusually well placed to undertake such a study. A former army officer and later an inspector of prisons, he wrote extensively on crime, punishment, and carceral administration. His professional familiarity with prisons, joined to a Victorian appetite for historical criminology, informed his interest in Newgate as a site where law, class, violence, reform, and popular imagination converged. His authority derives not merely from research, but from lived administrative proximity to the penal world. This book is recommended for readers interested in criminal history, Victorian nonfiction, London studies, and the development of modern penology. Though shaped by the assumptions of its age, it remains a vivid, learned, and indispensable account of a prison that haunted English legal and literary culture for centuries.
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Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length28 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 29, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The History of the Abolition of African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament (Annotated)
15CHAPTER XI. THE NEW GAOL.
2Volume 1
16Volume 2
3PREFACE.
17CHAPTER I. CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.
4INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.[1]
18CHAPTER II. NEWGATE DOWN TO 1818.
5CHAPTER I. MEDIÆVAL NEWGATE.
19CHAPTER III. PHILANTHROPY IN NEWGATE.
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6CHAPTER II. NEWGATE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
20CHAPTER IV. THE BEGINNINGS OF PRISON REFORM.
7CHAPTER III. NEWGATE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (DOWN TO THE GREAT FIRE).
21CHAPTER V. THE FIRST REPORT OF THE INSPECTORS OF PRISONS.
8CHAPTER IV. NEWGATE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (AFTER THE GREAT FIRE).
22CHAPTER VI. EXECUTIONS (continued).
9CHAPTER V. IN THE PRESS-YARD.
23CHAPTER VII. NEWGATE NOTORIETIES.
10CHAPTER VI. EXECUTIONS.
24CHAPTER VIII. NEWGATE NOTORIETIES (continued).
11CHAPTER VII. ESCAPES.
25CHAPTER IX. LATER RECORDS.
12CHAPTER VIII. THE GAOL CALENDAR.
26CHAPTER X. NEWGATE NOTORIETIES.
13CHAPTER IX. THE GAOL CALENDAR (continued).
27CHAPTER XI NEWGATE REFORMED.
14CHAPTER X. THE GAOL FEVER.
28Memorable Quotes
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