e.g. in 1848 six young men sentenced to 2 months hard labour for rolling a lighted tar barrel down the horse steps of Aswell Hole at 10pm (the Rag & Louse was on the right of the pic).pic.twitter.com/zKkzTRfLvx
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Must provide some good source material.
I stumbled on it entirely by accident. Most local histories up to recently presented Louth as quaint, quiet, no crime etc, & this material had barely ever been used, so I decided to use it and wrote Streets as a quick project :)
(I think historians really ought to engage in local history too, from time to time: it's very widely read yet can end up simply regurgitating the same old myths. Plus it was fun to write!)
(Of course, we need to be careful of accepting William Brown's portrait of the town too -- he saw immorality everywhere, and seems to have had a particular dislike of Jews, Irish people, and women (so little empathy on display in his reporting...))
Indeed but it does give some alternative material to work with although filtered through a prism. I remember being told about the importance of Inquisition documents (when published by the Vatican archives) for giving very detailed accounts of people's day to day lives.
Exactly :)
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