Crime, Punishment and Protest Through Time, c.1450-2004
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Timeline Industrial

1750 Bow Street Runners formed
1777 John Howard's report on prisons
1787 First transportation to Australia
1789 French Revolution
1812 Luddite riots
1819 Peterloo massacre
1829 Metropolitan police
1830 Swing riots
1834 Tolpuddle Martyrs
1843 Rebecca riots
1848 Chartism peaks
1851 Most of the population live in urban areas
1856 County Borough Police Act
1865 Prison Act: tough measures
1868 Public hanging ended
1877 CID begins
1889 London Dock Strike
1898 Prisons Act

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Contents
What is? Crime, Punishment, Protest

How have these changed? Crime, Protest, Punishment and Policing.

What happened in?

Early-Modern

c.1500-1750

Kett's Rebellion, Pilgrimage of Grace, Gunpowder Plot, Vagabonds, Poaching, Smuggling, Highwaymen, Witchcraft, Corporal Punishment, Bloody Code........more

 

Industrial Britain

c.1750-1900

Theft and robbery, Poverty, Police, Transportation, Prisons, Luddites, Swing Riots, Chartism, Prison Reformers, Dock Strike........more

 

Twentieth Century

c.1900-2000

Suffrage Movement, Conscientious Objectors, General Strike, Hanging, Youth Detention, Fingerprinting, DNA, Surveillance, Drug Crime, Hooliganism, Community Service, Race Crime.........more

 

Who were?

Robert Aske, Matthew Hopkins, Jonathan Wild, Dick Turpin, John Howard, Elizabeth Fry, Derek Bentley........more

 

 

 

 

 

Click to enlarge this detailed map showing

the number of Swing Riots in

 Britain during this era

 

 

 

 

 

 
The Dandy Highwayman

The stocks as drawn by Hogarth

Riots @ Brixton, London, 1981

Peelers from the 1800s

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