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“... was at least unconventional – he was deflowered by a glamorous aunt. The ‘hotel’ in which Audrey Peckham spent six excruciating months, before her trial and conviction for ‘incitement to murder’, was a remand centre. A Woman in Custody is a shocking tale, and its enthusiastic reception by penal reformers has been well-deserved. The account ...”

“... substantial numbers in Dulwich, Sydenham and Forest Hill. There were only three architects in Peckham, and none in Rotherhithe. This is, then, an index of middle-class London before the gentrification of the industrial areas nearer the river. The society’s explanation of the numbers was straightforward. Between the 1950s and the 1970s, before the great ...”