Transportation
Amanda Vickery tells the stories of three criminals who were transported during the 18th and early 19th centuries, and one group of desperate women who refused to go.
Half a million people were transported during the 18th century - to America, the West Indies, and Australia. Historians are just beginning to track their progress from the Old Bailey to their lives beyond. What they're discovering is as dramatic and colourful as any novel.
Amanda Vickery tells the stories of three criminals who were transported during the 18th and early 19th centuries, and of one group of desperate women who refused to go, throwing the entire penal system into chaos.
Recorded on location in the Prospect of Whitby pub in Wapping, on the River Thames, near where the prisoners were kept in hulks on the river and where many were hanged.
Contributors include Professor Peter King of Leicester University, leading historian of crime; Robert Shoemaker, Professor of History at Sheffield University and the co-founder of the Old Bailey Online; and historian of Empire, Zoe Laidlaw, from Royal Holloway, University of London, herself the descendent of a transported convict who was convicted in the Old Bailey.
With readings by Charlotte Stockley, Ewan Bailey, David Holt, and Steven Webb, and specially arranged music from singer Guy Hughes and pianist David Owen Norris.
Produced by Elizabeth Burke.
A Loftus production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.
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Getting started on the Old Bailey Site
You can find details of all these cases on the website Old Bailey Online. The site includes a video tutorial with search tips and further advice to help you navigate this rich source of archive.
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Case 1: William Blewitt, who returns from transportation
William Blewitt, who returns from transportation. This is the original pickpocketing case where he is sentenced to transportation
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Case 2: Martha Cutler, Sarah Cowden and Sarah Storer refuse to be transported.
Case 2: Martha Cutler, Sarah Cowden and Sarah Storer refuse to be transported.
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Case 3: Thomas Corrigan, who murders his wife and becomes a newspaper editor
Amanda Vickery
Professor Amanda Vickery is the prize-winning author of The Gentleman's Daughter (Yale University Press, 1998) and Behind Closed Doors: At Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ in Georgian England (Yale University Press, 2009). She is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London. She lectures on British social, political and cultural history.Μύ
Amanda reviews for The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4's Saturday Review, Front Row and Woman’s Hour. Her TV series At Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ with the Georgians aired on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ2 in December 2010. She was a judge of the 2011 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Samuel Johnson Prize.
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London Lives
is the sister site to Old Bailey Online. It makes available, in a fully digitised and searchable form, a wide range of primary sources about eighteenth-century London, many of which concern the same individuals who appeared at the Old Bailey.Μύ
The site includes over 240,000 manuscript and printed pages and over 3.35 million names.
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Contributors
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- Professor of English Local History,University of Leicester
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- Professor of Eighteenth-Century British History, University of Sheffield
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- Reader in British Imperial and Colonial History, Royal Holloway
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Find out more about Zoe Laidlaw’s ancestor
Broadcasts
- Thu 4 Sep 2014 09:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Thu 4 Sep 2014 21:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4