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City Of Vice
''City of Vice'' is a British historical crime drama television series set in Georgian London and first screened on 14 January 2008 on Channel 4. Premise The series mixes fiction with fact following the fortunes of the famous novelist Henry Fielding ( Ian McDiarmid) and his brother John (Iain Glen). Henry and John Fielding were magistrates of Westminster and the men who created the modern police force in Britain through the Bow Street Runners. The series was written by Clive Bradley and Peter Harness, whose scripts were nominated for a Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Series, 2008. It was directed by Justin Hardy and Dan Reed. The historical consultant was Hallie Rubenhold. Other information The show uses authentic historical research to tell the story of the two men battling to create a police force, 75 years before Robert Peel founded the Metropolitan Police. Henry Fielding's memoirs and contemporary sources such as the Old Bailey Sessions Papers have be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Theft Auto
''Grand Theft Auto'' (''GTA'') is an action-adventure video game series created by David Jones and Mike Dailly. Later titles were developed under the oversight of brothers Dan and Sam Houser, Leslie Benzies and Aaron Garbut. It is primarily developed by British development house Rockstar North (formerly DMA Design), and published by its American parent company, Rockstar Games. The name of the series is a term for motor vehicle theft in the United States. Gameplay focuses on an open world where the player can complete missions to progress an overall story, as well as engage in various side activities. Most of the gameplay revolves around driving and shooting, with occasional role-playing and stealth elements. The series also has elements of the earlier beat 'em up games from the 16-bit era. The games in the ''Grand Theft Auto'' series are set in fictional locales modelled after real-life cities, at various points in time from the early 1960s to the 2010s. The ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Peel
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835, 1841–1846), and simultaneously was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–1835). He previously was Home Secretary twice (1822–1827, 1828–1830). He is regarded as the father of modern British policing, owing to his founding of the Metropolitan Police while he was Home Secretary. Peel was one of the founders of the modern Conservative Party. The son of a wealthy textile manufacturer and politician, Peel was the first prime minister from an industrial business background. He earned a double first in classics and mathematics from Christ Church, Oxford. He entered the House of Commons in 1809 and became a rising star in the Tory Party. Peel entered the Cabinet as home secretary (1822–1827), where he reformed and liberalised the criminal law and created the modern police force, leading to a new type of officer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sodomy
Sodomy (), also called buggery in British English, principally refers to either anal sex (but occasionally also oral sex) between people, or any Human sexual activity, sexual activity between a human and another animal (Zoophilia, bestiality). It may also mean any non-Human reproduction, procreative sexual activity (including Non-penetrative sex#Manual sex, manual sex). Originally the term ''sodomy'', which is derived from the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Book of Genesis, was commonly restricted to homosexual anal sex. Sodomy laws in many countries criminalized the behavior. In the Western world, many of these laws have been overturned or are routinely not enforced. A person who practices sodomy is sometimes referred to as a sodomite, a pejorative term. Terminology The term is derived from the Ecclesiastical Latin , "sin of Sodom", which in turn comes from the Ancient Greek word (Sódoma). Book of Genesis, Genesis (chapters 18–20) tells how God destroyed the sinful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saffron Hill
Saffron Hill is a street and former ward in Holborn, in the south eastern corner of the London Borough of Camden, between Farringdon Road and Hatton Garden. The name of the street derives from the fact that it was at one time part of an estate on which saffron grew. The ecclesiastical parish was St Peter, Saffron Hill, a daughter parish of Holborn, which is now combined with St Alban (the Martyr), Holborn. In 1850, it was described as a squalid neighbourhood, the home of paupers and thieves. In Charles Dickens's novel ''Oliver Twist'' (1837), the Artful Dodger leads Oliver to Fagin's den in Field Lane, the southern extension of Saffron Hill: "a dirty and more wretched place he liverhad never seen. The street was very narrow and muddy, and the air was impregnated with filthy odours". Little Italy Saffron Hill is mentioned in the Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes story ''The Adventure of the Six Napoleons'', as the Italian Quarter where the Venucci family can be found. The ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly House
Molly house or molly-house was a term used in 18th- and 19th-century Britain for a meeting place for homosexual men and gender-nonconforming people. The meeting places were generally taverns, public houses, coffeehouses or even private rooms where patrons could either socialise or meet possible sexual partners. Despite the reputation of molly-houses as places having primarily sexual connotations, rather than as social meeting places, some historians are reluctant to classify them specifically as brothels. Rictor Norton, for example, argues that the regular customers could have been in fact mutual friends, at least at the beginning, since consistent evidence concerning male prostitution seems to be insufficient in Britain until the 1780s. From 1533 onwards, homosexual relations and sexual activities remained illegal and were frequently prosecuted, with homosexual sexual activities being included in the offence categories of buggery and sodomy (the terms which were often u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harris's List Of Covent Garden Ladies
''Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies'', published from 1760 to 1794, was an annual directory of prostitutes then working in Georgian era, Georgian London. A small pocketbook, it was printed and published in Covent Garden, and sold for two shilling (British coin), shillings and sixpence (British coin), sixpence. A contemporary report of 1791 estimates its circulation at about 8,000 copies annually. Each edition contains entries describing the physical appearance and sexual specialities of about prostitutes who worked in and around Covent Garden. Through their erotic prose, the list's entries review some of these women in lurid detail. While most compliment their subjects, some are critical of bad habits, and a few women are even treated as wikt:pariah, pariahs, perhaps having fallen out of favour with the list's authors, who are never revealed. Samuel Derrick is the man normally credited for the design of ''Harris's List'', possibly having been inspire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bagnio
Bagnio is a loan word into several languages (from ). In English, French, and so on, it has developed varying meanings: typically a brothel, bath-house, or prison for slaves. In reference to the Ottoman Empire The origin of this sense seems to be a prison in Livorno, built on former baths, or a prison for hostages near a bath-house in Constantinople.''Definition of "bagnio" from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary'' Accessed 23 February 2015. Thereafter it was extended to all the slave quarters in the and the |
John Rocque's Map Of London, 1746
In 1746, the French-born British surveyor and cartographer John Rocque produced two maps of London and the surrounding area. The better known of these has the full name ''A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark'': it is a map of Georgian London to a scale of 26 inches to a mile (i.e. 1:2437), surveyed by John Rocque, engraved by John Pine, and published in 1746. It consists of 24 sheets and measures . Taking nearly ten years to survey, engrave and publish, it has been described as "a magnificent example of cartography ... one of the greatest and most handsome plans of any city". Also in 1746, Rocque published another, smaller-scale, map of London, Westminster, Southwark, and their environs in sixteen sheets: its full name is ''An Exact Survey of the city's of London Westminster ye Borough of Southwark and the Country near ten miles round / begun in 1741 & ended in 1745 by John Rocque Land Surveyor; & Engrav'd by Richard Parr''. Although it lac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Times Online
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821), are published by Times Media, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' were founded independently and have had common ownership only since 1966. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. ''The Times'' was the first newspaper to bear that name, inspiring numerous other papers around the world. In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as or , although the newspaper is of national scope and distribution. ''The Times'' had an average daily circulation of 365,880 in March 2020; in the same period, ''The Sunday Times'' had an average weekly circulation of 647,622. The two newspapers also had 600,000 digit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Magee
Francis Magee (born 7 June 1959) is an Irish actor. He portrayed List of EastEnders characters (1993), Liam Tyler in British soap opera ''EastEnders'' from 1993 to 1995. He has also appeared in numerous television shows and feature films, including ''The Calling (2000 film), The Calling'' (2000), ''Layer Cake (film), Layer Cake'' (2004), ''Sahara (2005 film), Sahara'' (2005), ''No Angels (TV series), No Angels'' (2004-2006), ''City of Vice'' (2008), ''1066 The Battle for Middle Earth'' (2009), "Men Against Fire", an episode of ''Black Mirror'' (2016), ''Into the Badlands (TV series), Into the Badlands'' and ''Absentia (TV series), Absentia'' (both 2019), ''White Lines (TV series), White Lines'' (2020), and ''Kin (Irish TV series), Kin'' (2022–2023). Early life Born in Dublin, Ireland, and raised on the Isle of Man, Magee worked as a fisherman for 8 years, before pursuing a career as an actor. Magee worked as a courier for Concord(e) Despatch in Belsize Park, and enrolled to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saunders Welch
Saunders Welch (2 February 1711 – 1 October 1784) was an 18th-century English businessman, justice of the peace for Middlesex, and policing pioneer. Life He was born in Aylesbury and educated in the town's workhouse. An early biography of the sculptor Joseph Nollekens (husband to Welch's daughter Mary) stated that Welch was apprenticed to a trunk-maker in St Paul's Churchyard in the City of London, though another 1820s memoir refers to his receiving an inheritance and being "in person, mind and manners, most perfectly a gentleman".L.-M. Hawkins, ''Memoirs, anecdotes, facts and opinions'', 2 vols. (1824) By 1734 he was living on Broad St Giles in the parish of St George's Bloomsbury and running a grocery, probably from his home, moving into a bigger residence on the corner of Bow Street (now known as Museum Street) around 1739. He began moving in artistic circles and is said to have modelled for the foot and leg of Roubiliac's George Frederick Handel (Roubiliac), statue of Hande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Spruell
Sam Spruell (born 1 January 1977, in Southwark, London) is a British actor. Early life and education Spruell studied at Hull University before turning to acting. His mother is actress Linda Broughton. Career Theatre He made his stage debut with the Royal National Theatre. He has appeared in ''The Caretaker'' (at Trafalgar Studios); ''Pornography'' (Tricycle); '' The Alchemist'' and '' The Life of Galileo'' (the National); ''King Lear'' (Sheffield Crucible); ''Othello'' ( Royal Exchange); ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', '' They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'', and '' Pippin'', (Bloomsbury Theatre); and elsewhere. Cinema Spruell's first screen appearance came in Kathryn Bigelow's submarine drama '' K-19: The Widowmaker'' in 2002. His film credits include '' To Kill a King'' (2003); '' London to Brighton'' (2006); '' Elizabeth: The Golden Age'' (2007); ''The Hurt Locker'' (2008); '' Defiance'' (2008); and others. He played hit man Jack "The Hat" McVitie in the 2015 film ''Legend'', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
