Hugh Quarshie
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Georgian Underworld: With Hugh Quarshie, Christopher Ellison, Marcus McNicoll, Sean AugustLewis. Series of programmes exploring the hidden life of Georgian England.
- Drama
- 60
- 2003-04-17
These malevolent giants live in the underworld or in remote mountains, where they hoard treasure troves and keep their captives. In Georgian mythology, they live in a family, consisting usually of nine brothers. Bakbak-Devi (ბაყბაყ-დევი) was the strongest and the most powerful of the devis.
S1.E5 ∙ Queer as 18th Century Folk. The seething sexual underworld of 18th-century London is explored, where the gay scene flourished, from the "molly houses" or gay brothels through to public figures with hidden partners. Then there were the "tommies" - female transvestites who lived, worked and married as men.
Georgian mafia (Georgian: ქართული მაფია, romanized: kartuli mapia) is regarded as one of the biggest, most powerful, dangerous and influential criminal networks in Europe, which has produced the largest number of "thieves in law" in all former USSR countries and controls and regulates most of the Russian-speaking and fully controls Russia and Georgia mafia groups. [1]
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In 1752, the surgeon who attended a man who had been very badly beaten by a robber, held a meeting in a brew house which was attended by six local 'thief-catchers'. After some discussion of the modus operandi of the robbers, one thief-catcher recognized that one of the gang must have been Spanish Jack.
1 FROM RAG FAIR TO VAUXHALL GARDENS THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNDERWORLD (The Georgian Underworld: Criminal Subcultures in Eighteenth-Century England; Chapter 5) Rictor Norton England had a much higher rate of urban growth than any other country in Europe. London itself was by far the largest city in Europe, perhaps the largest city in the world.
