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Richard Davenport-Hines

Richard Davenport-Hines has written the entries on Jack the Ripper and other serial killers for the New Dictionary of National Biography. The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics 1500-2000 was published in 2001.

Selected bibliography

  • A Night at the Majestic (2006)
  • The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics, 1500-2000 (2001)
  • Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin (1998)
  • Auden (1995)
  • The Macmillans: The Story of a Dynasty (1992)
  • Sex, Death and Punishment: Attitudes To Sex and Sexuality In Britain Since The Renaissance (1990)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Horrid Mutilation! Read all about it! · 4 April 2002

  • Jack the Ripper and the London Press by Perry Curtis

subscriber-only content Doing Some Measuring ahead of Time · 9 August 2001

  • Letters from Prison by the Marquis de Sade, translated by Richard Seaver
  • De Sade's Valet by Nikolaj Frobenius, translated by Tom Geddes

subscriber-only content Spliffing · 2 November 2000

  • The Science of Marijuana by Leslie Iversen
  • Drug Diplomacy in the 20th Century: An International History by William McAllister
  • The Control of Fuddle and Flash: A Sociological History of the Regulation of Alcohol and Opiates by Jan-Willem Gerritsen
  • Drugs and the Law: Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Suffocating Suspense · 16 March 2000

  • Cult Criminals: The Newgate Novels 1830-47 by Juliet John

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