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Teacher Notes - Pickpockets, Garrotters, And Murderers
Pickpockets, ‘garrotters’ and murderers
During this period, around 75% of all recorded crime were various forms of petty theft - as it had been in previous periods. Violent crimes in general only m...
Paper 2 Revision Guide Complete 2007
Revision guide for the Edexcel SHP Crime History GCSE exam in June 2007
The Bloody Code
The Bloody Code
Crimes punishable by harsh punishments, such as corporal punishment and public executions, not only continued but increased from the Middle Ages until the nineteenth century. As fea...
Crime and Punishment Revision Booklet
Revision booklet for all aspects of the Crime and Punishment syllabus, all exam boards. Teachers and students should check which topics are covered by their exam board e.g. Edexcel, OCR, WJEC or AQ...
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An Order to the Whole Party
Orders to the NSDAP on April 1, 1933 for the boycott of Jewish business.
Teacher Notes - Modern Period, Changes in Policing
Changes in policing
Between 1964 and 1974, it was decided to reduce the total number of forces by amalgamation. Today, there are only 41 police forces. This change was achieved by the Police Act of...
Teacher Notes - Law Enforcement and the Bloody Code
Law enforcement and the ‘Bloody Code’
During the period 1450 -1750, the ‘Bloody Code’ had meant you could be hanged for over 200 different offences, ranging from murder to robbery, burglary and pic...
Teacher Notes - Law Enforcement 1500-1750
1500-1750: Local law enforcement
Under the Tudors, about 80% of crimes were various forms of theft, with most of the rest being crimes against the person. Hue and cry was still the main method of c...
Teacher Notes - Women in Tudor and Stuart Times
Women, witch-hunts and the law
Women continued to suffer from unequal treatment in many respects during the period 1450 - 1750. In the period 1450 - 1750 there was the great clash between the Catho...
Teacher Notes - Women and the Law
Women and the law
According to modern research, women had made up 45% of those taken to the Old Bailey for alleged offences in the seventeenth century. This percentage dropped in the nineteenth cen...
Teacher Notes - Vagabonds
The punishment of vagrants
Between 1531 and 1598, various laws were passed which set down the punishments for vagrancy - these included whipping, being branded with the letter ‘V’ on their forehead...
Teacher Notes - Smuggling
Smuggling
Governments now get most of their revenue from direct (income) tax. In the 18th century most taxes were indirect and were levied mainly on goods like tobacco, tea and brandy imported from...
Teacher Notes - Poaching
Poaching
The nobility and gentry were big landowners who reserved the fish and game in their parks for their own hunting. To challenge their rights was regarded as an attack on their property and t...
Teacher Notes - Pickpockets, Garrotters, And Murderers
Pickpockets, ‘garrotters’ and murderers
During this period, around 75% of all recorded crime were various forms of petty theft - as it had been in previous periods. Violent crimes in general only m...
Teacher Notes - Policing
Reform of policing
Before the nineteenth century, law enforcement had continued to be based on the old system of local ‘policing’. This depended on Justices of the Peace (JPs), appointed by the Cro...
Paper 2 Revision Guide Complete 2007
Revision guide for the Edexcel SHP Crime History GCSE exam in June 2007
Jack the Ripper Q1 Guide
Jack the Ripper Q1 What does the examiner want you to do?
Describe law and order in London in the late nineteenth century.
Aim to write about 400 words…. Target: Key features/recall of knowledge Le...
The 12 Key Dates Worksheet
THE AMERICAN WEST – THE 12 AMERICAN
DATE
KEY DATES
EVENT
1837 1844 1848 1851 1862 1864 1866 1868 1869 1876 1887 1890
DESCRIPTION & SIGNIFICANCE OF EVENT
Lesson Notes 1 - Intro
JACK THE RIPPER Task One: On the first page of your book, write down five facts you reckon you know about this topic.
Task Two: Copy down the 3 questions below: 1. Describe law and order in Londo...
Homesteaders - Solutions
The Homesteaders – Solutions to their Farming Problems
Problems - Recap
Ploughing the Land Growing Crops Lack of Water Fire Crops getting Trampled Plagues of Insects Size of the Landh...
Farming the Plains - Problems
The Homesteaders Farming the Plains
What were the problems of farming the Great Plains?
Ploughing the Land ●Growing Crops ●Lack of Water ●Protecting the Crops ●Fire ●Insects ●Size of Landholdin...
