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The Border Mafia: Jailbreaks, Crime, Corruption and the Anglo-Scottish Reivers
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The largely rural borderland between England and Scotland was ravaged by marching armies in more than three centuries of conflict between the great nations. During this period from the Wars of Scottish Independence to the Union of the Crowns, many myths and folk heroes were born, with later romantic writers glossing over the criminal brutality of the local population, who suffered as the conflicts raged.
While crops, homes and livelihoods were destroyed, it also led to the development of a system of family-based organised crime gangs among the hills and valleys. Livestock theft became a way of life with burglaries, protection rackets, kidnapping for ransom, highway robbery, intimidation, mutilation and murder an everyday occurrence.
With corruption and nepotism rife among officials, people being bought off, and witness intimidation prevalent, the Borderers were also used as mob enforcers for powerful local landowners and nobles and could find themselves in demand as mercenary soldiers and horsemen.
On the occasions that the law did catch up with them and the reivers found themselves incarcerated, they sprang many daring escapes, enhancing their lawless status and criminal standing among the community as feared members of the Border Mafia.
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Pen and Sword Books
Church Street 49
S70 2AS Barnsley
enquiries@pen-and-sword.co.uk
1226734222
The largely rural borderland between England and Scotland was ravaged by marching armies in more than three centuries of conflict between the great nations. During this period from the Wars of Scottish Independence to the Union of the Crowns, many myths and folk heroes were born, with later romantic writers glossing over the criminal brutality of the local population, who suffered as the conflicts raged.
While crops, homes and livelihoods were destroyed, it also led to the development of a system of family-based organised crime gangs among the hills and valleys. Livestock theft became a way of life with burglaries, protection rackets, kidnapping for ransom, highway robbery, intimidation, mutilation and murder an everyday occurrence.
With corruption and nepotism rife among officials, people being bought off, and witness intimidation prevalent, the Borderers were also used as mob enforcers for powerful local landowners and nobles and could find themselves in demand as mercenary soldiers and horsemen.
On the occasions that the law did catch up with them and the reivers found themselves incarcerated, they sprang many daring escapes, enhancing their lawless status and criminal standing among the community as feared members of the Border Mafia.
Producent/osoba odpowiedzialna za bezpieczeństwo produktu
Pen and Sword Books
Church Street 49
S70 2AS Barnsley
enquiries@pen-and-sword.co.uk
1226734222
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Data wydania: 13.11.2026
Liczba stron: 224
Wymiary: 15.6x23.4
Typ okładki:twarda okładka
Wydawca: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Tytuł:The Border Mafia: Jailbreaks, Crime, Corruption and the Anglo-Scottish Reivers
EAN: 9781036182496
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