Gentlemen and Blackguards: Gambling Mania and the Plot to Steal the Derby of 1844 by Nicholas Foulkes

Gentlemen and Blackguards: Gambling Mania and the Plot to Steal the Derby of 1844

Nicholas Foulkes

336 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

informative medium-paced
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A book about the gambling mania which gripped early 19th century Britain, focusing on the corrupt Derby race of 1844. During the early 19th century, gambling was a grave social ill - largely uncontrolled and corrupt. The 1830s had seen the institu...

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