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Facts about life in industrial Britain
Key words: Industrialisation / revolution / crime wave
How did crime change in industrial Britain and why?
LO’s: • To identify the types of crime during this period • To explain trends in crime levels and assess the increase in crime in the early 19th Century
How did crime change in industrial Britain and why? • Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist (1839) describes London as a thieves’ paradise in the 1800s. • Young pick-pockets like the Artful Dodger roamed the streets while violent thieves like Bill Sikes were supported by a criminal network. • Dickens’ middle class readers were horrified, but couldn’t get enough of it! • Was this image of industrial Britain in the 19th century an accurate one?
How did crime change in industrial Britain and why? • Study Source 1. 1. What happened to the levels of crime in the four periods: 1750-1810, 1810-1820, 1820-1850, 1850-1900? 2. Use the background information below to suggest reasons for these trends.  How do you think these changes will affect punishments and policing?
How did crime change in industrial Britain and why? • Was this image of industrial Britain in the 19th century an accurate one? • Group work task: 1. Divide these cases among your group. Read the information carefully and discuss: i.
ii. iii.
2.
Is this crime the same as crimes committed for hundreds of years? Is this crime just a new opportunity for an old crime? Is this an entirely new crime?
On your groups A3 sheet note the following:
1. 2. 3.
The crime (include details) The punishment you would give Explain the reasons behind your sentence
Plenary: Reform
Industrial Revolution
Telegrams
Pick-pocket
The Enlightenment
Steam railways
Industrialisation
protest
Standard of living
crime wave
• With a partner, play taboo with some of our key vocabulary from the topic above (or choose your own from a previous period!)
Homework: • Complete the tasks on the hangings at the Tyburn tree. • Worksheet on tgispace.
Source A: The Police Gazette reported and publicised crimes. This was intended to help catch criminals but also led to greater awareness of crime and an impression of a "crime wave". This extract from the Gazette shows some of the crimes reported in one week in January 1828.
Source B: Testimony of Thomas Lloyd. This is an extract from the proceedings of the Central Criminal Court in London, in 1848-9, about theft from a dockside warehouse.
Source C: The Police Gazette reported and publicised crimes. This was intended to help catch criminals but also led to greater awareness of crime and an impression of a "crime wave". This entry from the Police Gazette reports a bank robbery in Swansea, in February 1828.
Source D: This is the prison entry of a boy convicted of throwing stones at a railway train, Birmingham, 1872.
Source E: These are two items from a list of thefts from mail-coaches, 1827-8.
Source F: This poster, from Liverpool in 1845, details a theft of lace from Wapping railway station.
Source G: This is part of a poster put out by the London and North Western Railway. It gives the names, addresses and offences of 19 people convicted of travelling on the railway without a ticket, 1890
Source H: This letter tells of frequent thefts from canal barges on the Yorkshire Canal between Yorkshire and Manchester
Source E: A Return of the Mail Robberies which have been committed on the Roads since the year 1824 to the present time. -
Names
John Spittal and two others -
Date and Place where offence committed
Apprehended for stealing from the Oxford Mail Cart at Brackley in the County of Nothampton on the Thomas 15th October 1827 Dennett four mail Bags And John containing Bank Pankhurst notes and Bills of Exchange.......... Apprehended for stealing from the Lewes Mail Cart at Lewes on the 18th November 1828 - Three Coats and a whip.....
value Whether Result of
effected Proceedi by ngs violence or simple Theft.
ÂŁ105 Simple .1.0 Theft.
Tried and Convicted
-. .6
Dennett tried & convicted Pankhurst acquitted
Simple 5 Theft.
Source G: NAME AND ADDRESS
DATE AND RESULT OF NATURE OF CONVICTION. OFFENCE. Joseph Travelling without Fined TWELVE Openshaw, a ticket from SHILLINGS and Goldborne, Manchester(Excha Twenty-seven Lancashire. nge) to Newton- ShillingsCosts. le-Willows, July 1st, 17th,and 18th, 1890. George William Travelling without Fined TWELVE Arnold, a ticket from SHILLINGS and Culcheth, Manchester(Excha Twenty-seven Kenyon. nge) to Kenyon, ShillingsCosts. July 3rd, 23rd, and 31st , 1890 John Travelling without Fined TWENTY Connelly,Farri a ticket from SHILLINGS and mond's Manchester Forty-two Shillings Houses, toWigan, July 7th, and Sixpence Costs. Bradley Lane, 1890. Wothington.
Source H: Carriers on the Yorkshire line of Canal Thompson Marsden & Co, Piccadilly Wharf Buckley & Kershaw, Barnby Faulkner & Co These Parties can give Information to what extent their Boats were robbed, which I am of the opinion will exceed that of any other line out of Manchester I have had occasion to make inquiry from them some time ago. and was informed that they were every Quarter on tendering their accounts Subject to considerable reductions for loss of Weighs in wool consigned to them for carriage to all parts of Yorkshire, and it frequently occurs that Bales of Woollen Cloth are robbed on their way from Yorkshire to Manchester.
Source D: BIRMINGHAM BOROUGH PRISON, COUNTY OF WARWICK, 29th June 1872 PARTICULARS of a Person convicted of a Crime specified in the 20th Section of The Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871. Name 2549 Thomas Burns Aliases Age (on discharge) 13 Years Height 4.3 Hair Dk Brown Eyes Grey Complexion Fresh Where Born Birmingham Married or Single Single Trade or Occupation Punter Any other distinguishing mark Scar on forehead Address at time of apprehension Duke Yard Park St Birmingham Whether summarily disposed of or tried by Jury Summarily Place and date of conviction Bow Police Court 22nd June of 2 Offence for which convicted Throwing Stones on a Railway If Sentenced 4 Days Hard Labour, upper Police Supervision, fact to be stated.