RT Review
T1 [Rezension von: Whitehead, Andrew, A Devilish Kind of Courage]
JF Policing and society
VO 34
IS 5
SP 485
OP 487
A1 Andrews, Tom
A2 Whitehead, Andrew
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1891167081
AB 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.
K1 police murder
K1 Sidney Street
K1 police history
K1 BRITISH history
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1080/10439463.2024.2317956