Criminels et bandits anglais - Les ancêtres de Jack l'éventreur

As components of a society, banditry and marginality are a means of measuring the vitality, strength or weakness of a world. Both vary according to the places, the times, the men and their mentality. In this book, it is a dark side of the History of England and Scotland that is revealed, the 17th and 18th centuries governed by banditry of raids, rackets - blackmail -, gang struggles in the Highlands, alcoholism and violence, prevalent in almost all social classes. Discover vagrancy (30,000 men wandered around London at the end of the 17th century), prostitution, blackmail (blackmail, racketeering), raids, attempts to control authority, the Poor Law, repression and the solutions of the Fielding brothers... Sanctions, corporal punishment, executions, testimonies from survivors of attacks... Outlaws, highwaymen, gangs, the most famous English and Scottish assassins and bandits of the time such as Dick Turpin the intrepid, James Maclean, the gentleman highwayman, William Page, the master of the road, Isaac Darkin, the adored dandy, John Rann, the king of extravagances, the Weston brothers, sponsors of the attack on the Bristol mail... The pleasure of causing suffering, the taste for the macabre, the love of alcohol, so many depravities that are the reflection of a dark society. A dive into the heart of the macabre.