Criminal justice in london and middlesex

This is part of a series of articles; the intention is to provide an overview of useful family and local history records in existence, covering the period 1066-1485. Each article can be enjoyed as a s

Britain’s biggest miscarriages of justice have seen lives ruined irreparably

“What’s the best thing about Chatham?” Daz leans back on his workbench and laughs. “The road out of it.” The 50-year-old small business owner is joking, he clarifies. But the self-described “disillusi

FT has covered these a number of times, with one of the earliest and most disastrous examples taking place in Hammersmith in 1804 (see FT296:42-45, 310:30-35, 452:16-18). Then a semi-rural village on

Henry Jeffreys on his eventful time as a council tenant

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