The Illustrated Police News by Linda Stratmann

The Illustrated Police News by Linda Stratmann

The Illustrated Police News cost just a penny, providing an affordable illustrated roundup of `all the startling events of the week' from its first issue published on 20th February 1864. Promising to educate the people with fantastic features such as `BURGLARIES OF THE WEEK' and its bountiful, often outlandish, illustrations, the paper was also a-perhaps unexpected- champion of social change. With crime historian Linda Stratmann as guide, the articles and special reports of the newspaper provide a fascinating view into the reading tastes and daily lives of its readership throughout the decades. Led by the newspaper's bombastic imagery sourced from the Library's extensive archive, this new book revels in the infamy and social significance behind the exuberant headlines of this extraordinary periodical.

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.

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ISBN 13	9780712352499
ISBN 10	071235249X
Title	The Illustrated Police News
Author	Linda Stratmann
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	British Library Publishing
Year published	2019-09-26
Number of pages	224
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