Crime
Description
This file contains items on criminal activities, including highway robbery and coining. This includes an ms note from Ivor Clissold to Tony Green describing a custom undertaken on leaving prison, collected from a former inmate of Armley Prison (January 1975); typed excerpts from a 19th-century newspaper and a modern example on tales of men impersonating women in order to commit crimes, submitted to BBC Radio 4's 'Folktales' programme by Sylvia Fair (1980s); a printed pamphlet on Dick Turpin in York; a photocopy of typed information and texts, including the words of songs about Bold John Nevison, Jesse James and Ned Kelly, issued at Graham Seal's presentation on the tradition of highwaymen in Britain, America and Australia (Postgraduate Seminar, University of Leeds, 15 March 1978), 5 leaves; a mounted magazine cutting from 'Country Life' on a device for protecting graves from bodysnatchers (27 April 1972); and John Marsh's article on the Cragg Vale Coiners of the Calder Valley (West Yorkshire), extracted from 'Country Life' (8 June 1972), pp. 1464 and 1466. File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.
Metadata
| Identifier | c549gnpm |
| IRN | 410658 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/FLF/5/8/1 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/c549gnpm |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Judicial System |
| Date | [1972-1983] |
| Size and Medium | 1 file of ms., typed and printed papers, magazine extracts and a mounted magazine cutting. |