London’s Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720–c. 1930

1. Introduction
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2. ‘Now we have the Informing Dogs!’: Crime Networks and Informing Cultures in the 1720s and 1730s
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3. ‘A Noted Virago’: Moll Harvey and her ‘Dangerous Crew’, 1727–1738
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4. ‘The pickpockets and hustlers had yesterday what is called a Grand Day’: Changing Street Theft, c. 1800–1850
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5. ‘There goes Bill Sheen, the Murderer’: Crime, Kinship and Community in East London, 1827–1852
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6. ‘A new species of swindling’: Coiners, Fraudsters, Swindlers and the ‘Long-Firm’, c. 1760–1913
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7. ‘A London Plague that must be swept away’: Hooligans and Street Fighting Gangs, c. 1882–1912
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8. ‘The Terror of the People’: Organised Crime in Interwar London
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9. Conclusion
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Keywords: History, Cultural History, History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Crime and Society, Modern History