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Jack Sheppard-the surprising life, crimes and escapes of an 18th century criminal
Posted: Wednesday, 1st February 2012
February 2012
Jack Sheppard-the surprising life, crimes and escapes of an 18th century criminal
Jack Sheppard
Jack Sheppard (4 March 1702 16 November 1724) was an 18th century thief and burglar, popularized in a romantic novel by the author Harrison Ainsworth(4February 1805 to 3January 1882), a contemporary and friend of Charles Dickens.
In his short-lived career spanning just over two years, Jack Sheppards exploits were continuously followed by the public. He was caught, convicted and hanged at Tyburn in 1724.
Criminal novels
Jack Sheppard was first published as a serial in the journal Bentley's Miscellany by Ainsworth from January 1839 until February 1840.
AAC website
Posted: Wednesday, 21st April 2010
Welcome to the Archive Awareness Campaign website. We would appreciate your views and suggestions on how the site should be developed over time as well as your opinion on the content and on the layout.
We would also welcome your views on Archives you have visited and any fun and interesting events you've participated in. We look forward to your feedback. To go to the full post and provide feedback, click on the heading to this blog posting.
Archives taking flight...
Posted: Wednesday, 17th February 2010
Hi All,
I thought I'd just let you know about how we have been using the AAC theme "Take Flight" at the archives here at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Taking flight isn't an obvious theme for our archives, but we have worked with it and come up with something!
As we are currently moving our archival collections into a new store, we have not been able to hold an AAC open day etc, but instead our Archives Graduate Trainee has written an article for the RBG Kew LAA blog and for our staff magazine: see here.
Launch of the new AAC website
Posted: Tuesday, 10th November 2009
Welcome to our newly launched website and the launch of our new TAKE FLIGHT theme.
We would appreciate your views and how the site should be developed over the next few weeks and months. Please give us your opinion on the content and on the layout. A powerful search facliity will be added just as soon as Google has re-indexed this new version of the site in a week or two's time.
We look forward to your feedback. To go to the full post and provide feedback, click on the heading to this blog posting.
