{"id":3359,"date":"2025-04-02T16:18:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2025-04-02T16:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:18:45","slug":"the-devils-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?p=3359","title":{"rendered":"The Devil&#8217;s Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our own Professor Brad Beaven has published a new book about Ratcliffe Highway, the heart of London&#8217;s sailortown, which had a notorious reputation for knife crime and immorality in the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/jamrach-in-ratcliff-highway-abba78-640.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3363 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/jamrach-in-ratcliff-highway-abba78-640.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/jamrach-in-ratcliff-highway-abba78-640.png 640w, https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/jamrach-in-ratcliff-highway-abba78-640-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can listen to a recording of Brad talking about the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.port.ac.uk\/news-events-and-blogs\/podcasts\/professor-brad-beaven-discusses-the-devils-highway-his-new-book-about-londons-sailortown\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Brad-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3361 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Brad-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Brad-2.jpg 464w, https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Brad-2-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No doubt some of the material from the book will work its way into Brad&#8217;s second-year history option, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.port.ac.uk\/study\/courses\/undergraduate\/ba-hons-history#modules\">Underworlds: Crime, Deviance and Punishment in Britain 1500-1900.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our own Professor Brad Beaven has published a new book about Ratcliffe Highway, the heart of London&#8217;s sailortown, which had a notorious reputation for knife crime and immorality in the nineteenth century. You can listen to a recording of Brad talking about the book here. No doubt some of the material from the book will work its way into Brad&#8217;s second-year history option, Underworlds: Crime, Deviance and Punishment in Britain 1500-1900.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[554,17,620],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new_publications","category-research-in-focus","tag-crime","tag-nineteenth-century","tag-sailortowns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}