Name

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James C. F. Taylor (you don't want to know what the C F stands for, really you don't)

Location

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Somewhere in England

Profession

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Student

Interests

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History (it's what I'm studying)

Rogues

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A good project to start on...

Newgate Calendar

Abortionists

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Thomas Neill Cream, Aleck Bourne

Burglars and thieves

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Charlie Peace, Harry Jackson, William Darlington, Moll Cutpurse, Ikey Solomon

Children who kill

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Elizabeth Vamplew, David Mazey, Harold Jones, Mary Bell, Graham Young, Jon Venables, Robert Thompson, Derek Bentley

Forgers

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William Ireland, Edward Simpson

Fraudsters

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James Graham, Horatio Bottomley, Ernest Terah Hooley, George Hudson, Henry Fauntleroy, Maundy Gregory

Gamblers

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Charles Delville Wells, George Bryan Brummell, Helen Vernet, Wilfred Hyde White

Gay men

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John Cooper, Princess Seraphina, Samuel Foote, John Gielgud, Charles d'Eon, Ernest Boulton and Frederick Park, William James Field

Lesbian women

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The Ladies of Llangollen (Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby), Radclyffe Hall, James Allen, The Female Husband!

Highwaymen

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William Shelton, Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, "Sixteen-string Jack" John Rann

Murderers

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John Donnellan or John Donellan, Elizabeth Brownrigg, Sarah Malcombe, Amelia Dyer, Hawley Harvey Crippen, Ruth Ellis, Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen, Harold Shipman, the case of Sarah Jacob 'the fasting girl', William Burkitt

Pornographers

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Edmund Curll, John Cleland, Harry Nichols

Prostitution

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Rebecca Jarrett, Messina brothers, Christine Keeler, Moll King, Mary Jeffries

Jeremy Bentham, Anthony Noel Kelly, William Burke

Witches

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Estelle Roberts, Clive Holmes, Doris Stokes, Mary Bateman, Dummy the witch of Sible Hedingham, Helen Duncan