Georgian / Regency
Honour and Crime in the Age of Enlightenment
A Polite Exchange of Bullets
The Gentleman's Pistol Duel
We can provide a 30 minute talk featuring the etiquette and practice of duelling in the late 18th to early 19th Centuries and what it meant to fight to defend your honour.
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This talk and demonstration will cover a multitude of points regarding Georgian life and honour, all having been researched from the newspaper records of court testimonies. Examples of these are below:
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Why would one fight a duel?.
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Is it legal?
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How many fatal duels were there ?
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What are the rules ?
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What killed duelling off ?
Corpse and Effect
The Macabre Art of Body Snatching
We can provide a 45 minute live demonstration, including commentary and talk, of how to snatch a body.
The body snatcher, or resurrectionist was a much feared criminal in the early 19th century. He would sneak into graveyards and remove recently interred bodies selling them for a healthy, if immoral, profit to surgeons for teaching and research.
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This talk and demonstration includes an opprtunity to witness this from inside the grave and will cover a multitude of points regarding this crime. Examples of these are below:
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What tools did you need?
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How much money was in the business?
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How to not leave the evidence
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How to stay on the right side of the law.
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What made this crime die out?
