D is for... Dr Johnson's House LATE: 'Johnson Crime & Punishment' talk

Join us at Dr Johnson's House for an evening talk: 'Johnson, Crime and Punishment, in Four Cases'. Tickets include a welcome drink and chance to view Dr Johnson's House.

Join us for a fascinating exploration of Samuel Johnson's entanglements with ideas of criminality and causality. Four experts offer their insights into ways in which Johnson wrestled with wrongdoing, his own, as well as those of other people, and tried to stake out the terms of a shift in the way society addressed and corrected them.

Crime was rife in Georgian London, but so too was punishment. In the eighteenth century, you could be hanged for more than 350 offences, including wounding a hawk, fraternizing with gypsies, and defacing some, (but not all) of London's bridges. People were sent to prison for being in debt as was the case with the poet Richard Savage; and street walkers were sent to Bridewells for 'correction', while those who paid them for their services went scot free.

Samuel Johnson had a boundless compassion for people in desperate situations, and at the same time, an unwavering sense of Justice. All his life, he vied with the difficulty of reconciling these two pillars of his character, and of good society itself. How successful he was, and how far he influenced the shape of the century that followed, will comprise some of the questions that these series of short talks will raise.

Read more here: https://www.drjohnsonshouse.org/post/johnson-crime-punishment-four-cases

MEET DETAILS:
5.50pm: MEET OUTSIDE DR JOHNSON'S HOUSE
Address: 17 Gough Square, London, EC4A 3DE

6.00pm: ENTER DR JOHNSON'S HOUSE
6.00-6.30pm: Drinks
6.30-8.00 pm: Talk

8.30pm - Late: PUB SOCIAL (optional)
We'll head to Ye Old Cheshire Cheese pub for a social chit chat over drinks.
Address: 145 Fleet Street, London, EC4A 2BP

TICKETS:
You MUST buy a ticket before you sign up to this event.
Tickets are £20. Please book here.
There is limited capacity for the talk, so we'd recommend getting your ticket as soon as possible. Once tickets are sold out on the Dr Johnson's House website we will close the meetup event to RSVPs.

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• RSVP as 'Going' but then do not show up three times in a row.
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