02-25-2011, 05:31 AM
This is going to be so interesting! to me anyway. hahaha
the criminal records of Victorian women~~check out at the link, historical mugshots.
Thousands of criminal records detailing the harsh punishments handed our to female convicts in Victorian times will be published online for the first time today.
Family history website, Ancestry.co.uk is publishing more than 4,400 criminal records and 500 mugshots in its collection, which included one woman who received a five year sentence for stealing an umbrella.
They provide an astonishing insight into the way justice was done at the time, and indicted that gender and the offence committed was no barrier to the full force of the law.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1ExhAu56y
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the criminal records of Victorian women~~check out at the link, historical mugshots.
Thousands of criminal records detailing the harsh punishments handed our to female convicts in Victorian times will be published online for the first time today.
Family history website, Ancestry.co.uk is publishing more than 4,400 criminal records and 500 mugshots in its collection, which included one woman who received a five year sentence for stealing an umbrella.
They provide an astonishing insight into the way justice was done at the time, and indicted that gender and the offence committed was no barrier to the full force of the law.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1ExhAu56y
click to enlarge: