Criminal Manchester: Experiences of a Special Correspondent
Gelesen von Phil Benson
Anonymous
(4,792 Sterne; 12 Bewertungen)
Follow the Manchester Evening News 'special correspondent' and his guide - recently back from a 'seven stretch' - as they take you on a tour through the dimly lit quarters of late 19th-century criminal Manchester.- Summary by Phil Benson (2 hr 7 min)
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Fascinating
(5 Sterne)
Excellent reading...this kind of book makes you hope reincarnation is true, so many have had such short awful lives the first (?) time around
Recommended for people interested in the period, and in true crime stories.
Timothy Ferguson
(4 Sterne)
This is an excellent little booklet. A 19th Century newspaper magnate grabbed a man who had just come out of prison and said “Wander around the seedy part of town. Tell us what you see. Shock the middle class.” Well, I imagine that’s what he said. It’s a brilliant little slice of social history in the Mayhew mould.
Fascinating
Stella McQueen
(5 Sterne)
Fascinating glimpse into other lives. Great descriptions of visuals. Author had little grasp that people were mostly 'immoral' out of necessity, or that honest livings at the time were so often made at the expense of health and limb, and barely kept body and soul together (see 'The People of the Abyss' for contrast). Excellent reader!
interesting
Charlotte Jones
(5 Sterne)
really enjoyed thi. well narrated. Good visuals of the time.
Nicely read
(5 Sterne)
thievesworld in Manchester, but still interesting