Dukes Prefer Blondes (2016)
“—A Living Picture of London, for 1828, and Stranger’s Guide Legal matters For story purposes, I took some liberties with police and judicial proceedings, e.g., sending felons to trial when convenient to my plot, rather than waiting for the Sessions, during which their indictments would have been reviewed. For a readable survey of the history of the criminal justice system in London, I recommend the Old Bailey Proceedings Online. (http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/index.jsp) My fictional Grumley p...auper farm is a thinly disguised version of an actual case of 1849.
Ragged Schools Though the Ragged Schools Union wasn’t established until 1844, ragged schooling was known before this, although not necessarily by that name. “It was with the establishment of the London City Mission in 1835 . . . that the ragged schooling got its name,” according to infed.org (http://www.infed.org/youthwork/ragged_schools.htm). I took some artistic license in modeling mine on a ragged school that did exist in Saffron Hill at a later date than that of my story.MoreLess
Ragged Schools Though the Ragged Schools Union wasn’t established until 1844, ragged schooling was known before this, although not necessarily by that name. “It was with the establishment of the London City Mission in 1835 . . . that the ragged schooling got its name,” according to infed.org (http://www.infed.org/youthwork/ragged_schools.htm). I took some artistic license in modeling mine on a ragged school that did exist in Saffron Hill at a later date than that of my story.MoreLess
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