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Month: January 2017

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A Network of Vagrant Gaols

Posted on 20th January 2017 by acrymble

Once declared a vagrant by a magistrate, the person would be taken into custody and would begin their journey back ‘home’. Home in this context mean...

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Unintentional Migrants to London

Posted on 8th January 2017 by acrymble

This is the slightly-altered text of the paper I delivered at the British Society of Eighteenth Century Studies (BSECS) conference in Oxford, January 2017. I’d ...

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