• The Newgate Calendar, subtitled The Malefactors' Bloody Register, was a popular collection of moralising stories about sin, crime, and criminals who commit...
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    Newgate Prison was a prison at the corner of Newgate Street and Old Bailey, just inside the City of London, England, originally at the site of Newgate...
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  • portrayed. Most drew their inspiration from the Newgate Calendar, a biography of famous criminals published during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and...
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    Sawney Bean (category Newgate Prison)
    their heinous crimes. The story appeared in The Newgate Calendar, a sensationalised crime catalogue loosely connected with Newgate Prison in London. It...
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  • Elizabeth Branch (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    violence. She and her daughter, Betty Branch (listed as Mary Branch in the Newgate Calendar), would torture small animals, apparently taking inspiration from...
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    murderers, such as those featured in The Newgate Calendar were popular subjects for the plays. The stories of the 18th-century robber Jack Sheppard, who...
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    of the electro-stimulation technique of deceased limbs on the corpse of an executed criminal George Foster at Newgate in London. The Newgate Calendar describes...
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    Elizabeth Brownrigg (category People executed by the Kingdom of Great Britain)
    the devil would fetch her,’ and hoped that ‘she would go to hell.’ Such were the sentiments of the mob." Even sixty years later, The Newgate Calendar...
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    of this type had the words The Newgate Calendar in their titles and this has become a general name for this kind of publication. In the later 19th century...
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    Jack Sheppard (category People executed by the Kingdom of Great Britain)
    thence the bar of good resolution! – break through the stone wall of despair! The account of his life remained well-known through the Newgate Calendar, and...
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    George Forster (murderer) (category 1803 murders in the United Kingdom)
    Galvanism. The experiment he performed on Forster's body was a demonstration of this technique. The Newgate Calendar (a record of executions at Newgate) reports...
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    Tom King (highwayman) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    that was the time to recruit his pockets", and tried to rob him. The Newgate Calendar goes on to say that King was "very well known about the country"...
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    Tyburn (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    the condemned from Newgate Gaol in the City—at the end of the 18th century, the hangings were moved to Newgate. Tyburn The manor of Tyburn, and the neighbouring...
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    Giovanni Aldini (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2012. "Early Nineteenth century electrochemistry". Retrieved 21 October 2010. The Newgate Calendar –...
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    high in Saffron Lane near the Aylestone Tollgate. According to The Newgate Calendar: Thousands of persons were attracted to the spot, to view this novel...
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  • Literary", Volume 2 (Hurst, Chance, and co., 1829), pp. 33–36. "The Newgate Calendar: William Duell". pascalbonenfant.com. Retrieved 12 November 2010...
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  • Alice Arden (category People executed by the Kingdom of England by burning)
    Raphael Holinshed in his Chronicles and later had entries in both The Newgate Calendar and the Chambers Book of Days. Alice Brigantine married Thomas Arden...
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    out with the normal hempen rope instead of a silk one. The writ of execution does not specify a silk rope be used, and The Newgate Calendar makes no mention...
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    Dick Turpin (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    (1963), The Newgate Novel 1830–1847, Detroit: Detroit: Wayne State University Press, ISBN 0-8143-1215-2 Kyll, Thomas (1739), The Trial of the Notorious...
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    Catalogue of the Several Vicars of Halifax Church, with the Time of Their Institution and Death". J. Milner – via Google Books. "The Newgate Calendar - JOHN...
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  • homicide is the homicide of an individual who is a minor. In many legal jurisdictions it is considered an aggravated form of homicide. The age of the victim...
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    ISBN 9781934619087. "The Newgate Calendar – Richard Thornhill, Esq". Exclassics.com. Retrieved 2009-10-19. "The Newgate Calendar – CAPTAIN CLARKE, R.N"...
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    Bartholomew Fair (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    suppressed in 1855 by the City authorities for encouraging debauchery and public disorder. The Newgate Calendar had denounced the fair as a "school of...
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    centuries past, these women were judged by publications such as The Newgate Calendar to have succumbed to their own perversions, or to have been led astray...
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    for ideas, read about the Paris case and stored it away for later use." Sweeney Todd's story also appears in The Newgate Calendar, originally a bulletin...
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    CITEREFShoenfeld2001 (help) "Abraham Thornton". The Newgate Calendar. The Ex-Classics Web Site. Archived from the original on 26 August 2017. Retrieved 14 August...
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    p.128 Grose. M. "Jack Withrington". The Newgate Calendar. Retrieved 22 June 2007. Wikisource has the text of the 1885–1900 Dictionary of National Biography's...
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  • and chapbooks, such as The Newgate Calendar. These real crime stories were the subject of popular gossip and discussion of the day. While only a few people...
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    Eugene Aram (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    was an English philologist, but also infamous as the murderer celebrated by Thomas Hood in his ballad The Dream of Eugene Aram, and by Edward Bulwer-Lytton...
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     110, ISBN 9780313351808 The Newgate Calendar – "Francis Smith: Condemned to Death on 13th of January, 1804, for the Murder of the supposed Hammersmith Ghost...
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