Crime and Punishment ; John Hudson Meets the Strong Arm of the Law at Radstock Museum

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In 1770, a marriage could be null and void if a woman "seduced or betrayed a man into matrimony by using scents, paints, cosmetics, waxes, artificial teeth, false hair, high-heeled shoes, iron stays or bolstered hips".

We learn as much from an 18th-century cartoon of two grotesque looking dames that's currently on show at Radstock Museum, where its new exhibition Law and Order gives us a vivid insight into the history of policing in Somerset, Bath and Bristol.

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Crime and Punishment ; John Hudson Meets the Strong Arm of the Law at Radstock Museum

It's been put together by the museum chairman Richard Maggs, 12 years a PC in Somerset whose contacts in the Retired Police Officers' Association have added...

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