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A look back to hangings in the 18th century.

Many thanks to Richard Clark for kind permission to use his material: www.capitalpunishmentuk.org

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a lockdown bonus episode this week

The world has known some brutal punishments for crimes. In todays episode we look at some of these

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www.toptenz.net/10horrifying-and-cringeworthy-corporal-punishments.php

list verse.com/2016/03/27/10-forgotten-and-intruiging-punishments-from-history/

www.mentalfloss/article/63819/15-historical-terms-crimes-and-punishment-defined

www.ncbi.nim.gov/pmc/articles/pmc2689568

The Football World Cup has been stolen on two occasions. In todays episode we will examine these robberies.

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5764905/world-cup-theft-mystery-solved-52-years.html

dickiebet.com/-1983-curious-case-stolen-jules-rimet-trophy/

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/world-cup-heist-solved-52-12586650

coolinterestingstuff.com/the-jules-rimet-trophy-the-story-of-the-missing-world-cup

www.fourfourtwo.com/features/missing-30-years-what-happened-jules-rimet-trophy

www.historytoday.com/archive/england-loses-world-cup

In Hyde Park lies London's strangest cemetery.

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www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/Hyde-Park-Secret-Pet-Cemetery/

www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/Inside-Hyde-Parks-secret-pet-cemetery/

https://johnjohnson.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/the-life-and-adventures-of-toby-the-sapient-pig/

In todays episode we look at the history of Monopoly and how the game helped thousands of allied prisoners to escape and rejoin the fight to help win WW2

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www.historyonline.com/instant-articles/Germanys-pow-camp.html

www.armedforcesmuseum.com/monopoly-in-world-war-ii/

www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/how-monopoly-games-helped-allied-pows-escape-during-world-war-ii/266996/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2013/jan/08/history-monopoly-waddingtons-victor-watson-stalag-prisoners-of-war

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/wwii-monopoly-game-escape-version.html

History has given us many accounts of Mistresses. In todays episode we look at some.

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www.factinate.com/people/43-seductive-facts-historical-mistresses/

https://www.rmg.co.uk/explore/blog/sex-life-samuel-pepys

Headhunting has occurred throughout the world for various reasons. In todays episode we will look at some of these peoples.

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www.ripleys.com/weird-news/shrunken-head/

www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/ten-creepy-images-shrunken-heads-ecuador-003785

www.zmescience.com/science/head-shrinking-tsantsa-05244/

jacquelinezote.blogspot.com/2016/02/10-fascinating-tribes-with-headhunting.html

www.nihonto-yoroi.com/2017/12/20/head-collectors/

listverse.com/2014/06/27/10-ways-samurai-were-nothing-like-you-thought/

www.britannica.com/topic/headhunting

www.aidandoyle.net/2009/06/03/who-would-have-thought-collecting-severed-heads-would-be-so-difficult

In 1864 Britains first train murder took place: it led to a cross Atlantic chase to apprehend the Killer.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279102/Thomas-Briggs-murder-train-Franz-Muller-gripped-Victorian-Britain.html

http://www.mernick.org.uk/thhol/murdernl.html

http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/muller.html

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/victorian-railways/

http://www.btp.police.uk/about_us/our_history/crime_history/the_first_railway_murder.aspx

http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/377815/Murder-on-the-railway

The first of a few episodes over the coming months when we look at Victorian Jobs.

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http://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/08/31/dog-feces/

http://www.blackstockleather.com/history-of-the-leather-tanning-industry/

Peter Ackroyd. London Under. London: Vintage, 2012

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/quite-likely-the-worst-job-ever-319843/

Henry mayhew, london labour and the London poor, oxford press 2010

The real life inspiration for Tinker Tailor soldier spy was a spy ring in British intelligence. this is the story of their cover being blown and their escape to Moscow.

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http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2015/09/guy-burgess-cambridge-spy-who-bet-soviet-future

media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/stalins-englishman-lives-guy-burgess/

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3216458/The-promiscuous-man-lived-New-biography-Guy-Burgess-reveals-Cambridge-spy-sleep-17-75-real-passion-treachery.html

spartacus-educational.com/SSburgessG.htm

Baker, Rob Beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics, Amberley publishing, 2015