A Very British Murder

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She has presented numerous television series, including Harlots, Housewives and Heroines for BBC4 and If Walls Could Talk for BBC1, for which she also wrote an accompanying book. I was born in Reading (not great, but it could have been Slough), studied Ancient and Modern History at New College, Oxford, and I've got a PhD in art history from the University of Sussex. LUCY WORSLEY is a historian and Chief Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces, where she looks after the Tower of London and Hampton Court Palace among others. From Jack the Ripper to the cosy crimes of the Golden Age, renowned historian Lucy Worsley explores the evolution of the typical British murder, to accompany a new BBC series.

Sayers, produced novels a bit like knitting: detailed, wonderfully plotted, full of social observation. Renowned historian Lucy Worsley delves into some of the most notorious killings from the past and looks at the way they were reflected in the art and entertainment of the time in this BBC Select true crime documentary. Ever since the Ratcliffe Highway Murders caused a nation-wide panic in Regency England, the British have taken an almost ghoulish pleasure in 'a good murder'. So did the Frederick and Maria Manning affair of 1847, the ‘Bermondsey Horror’, a rare episode in which husband and wife were executed together, for the killing of Maria’s lover. Knyga – savotiška studija, nagrinėjanti britų „liguistą nacionalinę maniją žmogžudystei“, kaip tai pavadina Worsley.

On a personal note, Worsley's balanced and insightful analysis helped me finally to articulate why I can read Wilkie Collins or Arthur Conan Doyle all day long, over and over again with relish, while the works of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. About the time I would think, for example, "Next up should be the Road Hill House Murder and its influence on novels like The Moonstone," there the expected chapter would be. Worsley's manner of citing the work of other authors of books on English murder, often Judith Flanders and P.

We were becoming a much more humane society by then, and in fact had been thus since 1823, when the Judgement of Death Act reduced the number of capital crimes to those guilty of treason, murder or piracy. While visiting a museum in Bury St Edmunds, Worsley confesses to holding the scalp of an infamous murderer and experiencing “a mixture of macabre pleasure and guilt at interfering with the remains of a human being. These were the days when convicted killers were executed in public, and there was something of a carnival atmosphere as spectators flocked to the gallows to watch until 1868, when legislation was passed which meant that the death sentence would henceforth be carried out privately within prison walls. Yet there were soon rather more respectable ways to satiate one’s appetite for crime, loosely speaking – the ‘sensation novel’ and the melodrama. I found the history of the police and detective forces, developing from the older system of constables and watchmen, particularly interesting.Gal netgi 2013 metų laidų ciklą „A Very British Murder“, kuris, kaip nesunku nuspėti iš pavadinimo, ir tapo pagrindu šiai knygai. His scalp was exhibited for money, and remains on display in a museum in Bury St Edmunds to this very day. At the time, the posh mansion, the closed circle of suspects, and the family’s scandals (Constance’s mother had died insane, her father then married the governess) gripped newspaper readers. m. on KPBS 2 - The series moves forward in time to the Victorian Age as Lucy Worsley explores how science and detection had an influence on the popular culture of murder.