[Rezension von: Whitehead, Andrew, A Devilish Kind of Courage]

An examination of the Siege of Sidney Street, and the associated Houndsditch police murders and ‘Tottenham Outrage’ is not new. The author of this new work, Andrew Whitehead, takes the reader beyond a narrative detail of these momentous events in British criminal history and instead looks at the pol...

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Main Author: Andrews, Tom (Author)
Contributors: Whitehead, Andrew (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: Policing and society
Year: 2024, Volume: 34, Issue: 5, Pages: 485–487
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
police murder
Sidney Street
police history
BRITISH history
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Summary:An examination of the Siege of Sidney Street, and the associated Houndsditch police murders and ‘Tottenham Outrage’ is not new. The author of this new work, Andrew Whitehead, takes the reader beyond a narrative detail of these momentous events in British criminal history and instead looks at the political and social situation in London's East End, only a generation after the Ripper era. He examines the lives and backgrounds to the outsiders of the era – Eastern European ‘revolutionary anarchists’ fleeing Imperial Russia and the oppression of the tsarist Okhrana secret police, to the supposedly tolerant shores of England. He seeks to understand what motivated their decision to commit such heinous crimes, and the fallout for the perpetrators, and wider British society.
ISSN:1477-2728
DOI:10.1080/10439463.2024.2317956