Famous British ROUTE ETINOTS from The Ni a Criminals ,Contents The Newgate Calendar John ‘Jack’ SHEPPARD Famaus robber and escape artist cmpren one Life of Crime cumeren Two Great Escapes John GOW Captain of a famous gang of pirates CHaPreR one The Life of a Pirate cuapren wo Captured Jonathan WILD Criminal genius cHaPrERONe Crime Pays. charren Two The Thief-taker chupren runes Stolen PropertyRichard ‘Dick’ TURPIN Highwayman and horse thiet as ‘cnaprenone The Essex Gangs cuneren wo King and Horses 2 Dossiers Crime and Punishment in the Eighteenth Century 2 Fighteenth-century London INTERNET PROJECTS 0,105 MMMM 99,27, 22,40.50,59,07.77,88,01 108 Peet 109 key To THE ExT TEST me PGE otcetens meng amnion emi IRB) These symbols indicate the beginning end end ofthe BBM excracte inked fo the isconing activities. The Newgate Calendar [Wee Negite Calendar isnot the tte of one individual book, but of several books which were published from th at 17005 t the mi 1800s. rignally Tae Newt Cor was» document writen by an ofa of Newgate prison in London e contained the names ofall the prisoners admitted to the prison during the previous month I was only later that this name became the ttle ofa collection of| accounts of famous prisoners who had bee hel in Newgate prion. During the 1700s stories about the executions, confessions and the lust words of prisoners were very popular. They were sokd a la single page or as nexpensve publications of around sity page 1n 1776 the Reverend John Villette, the Ordinary Chaplain Newgate prion, coleted these publications of popula crime stores int four volumes. This isthe ist of the collections which were soon known as The Newgate Cle The colectons soon became extremly popular. ven parents were happy if their children read the sores, because they alo contained an important moral lesson: if you do bad things, you willbe punished. People who could not read could also enjoy the cncitement and horror of The Newgate Calendar because it often Inspired the popular drama ofthe day. Dick Turpin Jack Sheppard and Jonathan Wild were almost universally known during the 1710 The New dsr can be considered the first important book of crime stories in English, but they are very different from the Getective and police stories and films we know today. The frst