In researching my next Biographica Incognita entry I have been looking at impressive escapes from prison. This inexorably led me to the story of Jack Sheppard whose criminal career only lasted about two years but in those two years he accrued the notoriety of a lifetime. Jack was born in March 1702 in Spittlefields, London… Continue reading Jack Sheppard: Stone walls do not a prison make.
