Emelyne Godfrey
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Emelyne Godfrey reviews an exhibition devoted to the life and work of H.G. Wells which opens today, November 15th, at the Bromley Museum in Orpington. Published November 15 2010
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Emelyne Godfrey reviews a title by Sharrona Pearl. Published September 22 2010
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Emelyne Godfrey reviews a work on how murder and punishment was treated by Victorian Britain. Published June 11 2010
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‘Garotting’, or the strangulation of a victim in the course of a robbery, haunted the British public in the 1850s. Emelyne Godfrey describes the measures taken to prevent it and the range of gruesome self-defence devices that were often of greater danger to the wearer than to the assailant. Published June 10 2009
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Emelyne Godfrey explains the origins and current appeal of a hybrid martial art that flourished in fin de siècle London and was famously used by Conan Doyle’s fictional detective. Published April 17 2009
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Published April 21 2004
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Emelyne Godfrey looks at the latest trends in postgraduate historical studies.
Published January 20 2004
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Published October 19 2003
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