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I would add Peter Linebaugh's "The London Hanged". Using the court records of capital offences at the Old Bailey (which included a mass of prosopographical det
by frabbit 9y ago
I would add Peter Linebaugh's "The London Hanged". Using the court records of capital offences at the Old Bailey (which included a mass of prosopographical detail) he works outwards to examine the composition of English society just as mercantile capitalism was taking flight. https://www.amazon.com/London-Hanged-Eighteenth-Linebaugh-Paperback/dp/B015X546C4 https://www.amazon.com/London-Hanged-Eighteenth-Linebaugh-Pa...