Harvey Osborne

Poachers, politicians, and the police: The Poaching Prevention Act of 1862

John Archer, Harvey Osborne, Carl J. Griffin

Abstract The period after 1850 is often assumed to have witnessed some amelioration in the operation of the game code. This article highlights the origins of a little-researched statute, the 1862 Poaching Prevention Act, which conversely augmented the existing game laws and, …

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JOHN BRIAN WELLER:

Vivienne Aldous, Harvey Osborne

VICTOR GRAY, MBE, MA, FSA, Chairman 2014–21, an Appreciation

Harvey Osborne

Workhouse disorder in Suffolk, 1835-1855

Harvey Osborne

The great experiment: the impact of the Great War on the British commercial sea fishing industry, fisherman and fish

Harvey Osborne

John Bright’s poacher: poaching, politics and the illicit tradein live game in early Victorian England

Harvey Osborne

This article takes as its subject the life and career of Frederick Gowing, once described as ‘the greatest poacher in England’. Gowing’s reputation as a professional poacher brought him to national attention during the Anti-Corn Law League’s populist campaign against the Game …

Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England: working-class dress and rural life

Harvey Osborne

Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England is not so much an account of what country people in Victorian England wore, although it certainly performs that function, but a study of how the clothing...

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‘Unwomanly practices’: Poaching Crime, Gender and the Female Offender in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Harvey Osborne

Abstract: Studies of poaching in the nineteenth century have tended to understate the involvement of women in this archetypal rural crime. This article will suggest that female offending was both more significant and more widespread than previously assumed, but it will also …

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Rural and Urban Poaching in Victorian England

Harvey Osborne, Michael Winstanley

Poaching is commonly portrayed as the archetypal nineteenth-century ‘rural’ crime, particularly associated with agricultural districts of southern and eastern England. This study argues that this interpretation is misleading. Judicial statistics collected from the mid-nineteenth century suggest that poaching was much more widespread …

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The seasonality of nineteenth-century poaching

Harvey Osborne

Historians have generally explained the pronounced seasonal pattern of nineteenth-century poaching in economic terms, emphasising the apparent correlation between annual peaks in offending and cyclical periods of unemployment and poverty. There has been little acknowledgement of the role nature played in determining …