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Jack Sheppard sits for Hogarth (right) and Thornhill (left), while talking to James Figg. Engraving by George Cruikshank, 1839.

Sheppard’s Warning

Stephen Ridgwell | Published in History Today Volume 71 Issue 4 April 2021

A thief who had been dead for more than a century caused a moral panic in the theatres of Victorian London.

‘A View of Sydney on Norfolk Island, 1792’. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Public Domain.

Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island

J.M. Moore | Published in History Today Volume 75 Issue 1 January 2025

As convicts celebrated Queen Victoria’s birthday on remote Norfolk Island, debates raged over the purpose of punishment and the merits of Alexander Maconochi