The Illustrated Police News - The Shocks, Scandals and Sensations of the Week 1864-1938

Informationen zum Autor Linda Stratmann is a prolific author on the history of crime, with books including Chloroform , The Quest for Oblivion , Notorious Blasted Rascal , Fraudsters and Charlatans , and Cruel Deeds and Dreadful Calamities . Klappentext Firs published in 2011 as Cruel deeds and dreadfull calamaties. This edition contains revised and edited material. Zusammenfassung The Illustrated Police News provided an affordable illustrated roundup of `all the startling events of the week' from its first issue published on 20th February 1864. Led by the newspaper's bombastic imagery from the Library's archive! this new book revels in the infamy and social significance behind the exuberant headlines of this periodical.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Stratmann, Stratmann Linda
• Publisher: British Library
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2019
• EAN: 9780712352499
• ISBN: 978-0-7123-5249-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; HUMOR / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Humour, Reportage & collected journalism, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Reportage, journalism or collected columns