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London The Executioner S City

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Author : David Brandon
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2022-06-30

London The Executioner S City written by David Brandon and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-30 with Social Science categories.

Tyburn Fields is the best known site of execution in London, but London may be aptly named the executioner's city, so many were the places where executions could and did occur. This book reveals the capital as a place where the bodies of criminals defined the boundaries of the city and heads on poles greeted patrons on London Bridge.

The Flower Of All Cities

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Author : Robert Wynn Jones
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2019-07-15

The Flower Of All Cities written by Robert Wynn Jones and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-15 with History categories.

A unique account of old London with all its energy, filth and splendour before the city's destruction by the Great Fire in 1666.

The International Library Of Essays On Capital Punishment Volume 3

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Author : Peter Hodgkinson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05

The International Library Of Essays On Capital Punishment Volume 3 written by Peter Hodgkinson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Social Science categories.

This volume provides analyses of a range of subjects and issues in the death penalty debate, from medicine to the media. The essays address in particular the personal complexities of those involved, a fundamental part of the subject usually overridden by the theoretical and legal aspects of the debate. The unique personal vantage offered by this volume makes it essential reading for anyone interested in going beyond the removed theoretical understanding of the death penalty, to better comprehending its fundamental humanity. Additionally, the international range of the analysis, enabling disaggregation of country specific motivations, ensures the complexities of the death penalty are also considered from a global perspective.

Execution

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Author : Simon Webb
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2011-12-31

Execution written by Simon Webb and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-31 with History categories.

Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been used in this country; ranging from burning, beheading and shooting to crushing and boiling to death. Execution: A History of Capital Punishment in Britain explores these types of execution in detail. Readers may be surprised to learn that a means of mechanical decapitation, the Halifax Gibbet, was being used in England five hundred years before the guillotine was invented. Boiling to death was a prescribed means of execution in this country during the Tudor period. From the public death by starvation of those gibbeted alive, to the burning of women for petit treason, this book examines some of the most gruesome passages of British history. This carefully researched, well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to those interested in the history of British executions.

Olde London Punishments

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Author : David Brandon
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2010-04-30

Olde London Punishments written by David Brandon and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-30 with Social Science categories.

The authors of London: City of the Dead and London: The Executioners City expand their history of grim, ancient punishments into the realm of the "social" punishments used in workhouses, churches, and schools All manner of vile punishments from London's long and bloody history are collected here. Over the centuries, many hundreds have expired inside dank, rat-infested cells, or while "dancing the Tyburn jig" at the end of a swinging rope, and many of the sites have become bywords for infamy. From the Tower and Newgate prison to the Clink and the Fleet, this book explores London’s criminal heritage; including the stocks and pillories that lie, almost forgotten, in churchyards and squares across the city, it is a heartbreaking survey of the nation’s penal history. Richly illustrated and filled with victims and villains, nobles, executioners, and torturers, it will delight historians, travelers, and armchair travelers alike.

Defiled Trades And Social Outcasts

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Author : Kathy Stuart
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-05-04

Defiled Trades And Social Outcasts written by Kathy Stuart and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05-04 with History categories.

This book presents a social and cultural history of 'dishonourable people' (unehrliche Leute), an outcast group in early modern Germany. Executioners, skinners, grave-diggers, shepherds, barber-surgeons, millers, linen-weavers, sow-gelders, latrine-cleaners, and bailiffs were among the 'dishonourable' by virtue of their trades. This dishonour was either hereditary, often through several generations, or it arose from ritual pollution whereby honourable citizens could become dishonourable by coming into casual contact with members of the outcast group. The dishonourable milieu of the city of Augsburg from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries is reconstructed to show the extent to which dishonour determined the life-chances and self-identity of dishonourable people. The book then investigates how honourable estates interacted with dishonourable people, and how the pollution anxieties of early modern Germans structured social and political relations within honourable society.

The Executioners Bible

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Author : Steve Fielding
language : en
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Release Date : 2008-11-12

The Executioners Bible written by Steve Fielding and has been published by Kings Road Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-12 with Fiction categories.

It has been just over 40 years since a gallows was last used in Great Britain, and the secrets behind the men who pulled the lever and dropped the condemned to their deaths are still shrouded in mystery. This account tells the story of the working-class men who carried out this profession until its abolition in the late 1960s. The hangman's rope was part of an exact science, and in their day, the men who undertook the job assumed the profiles of infamous celebrities, their reputations often rivaling the notorious criminals they were charged with dispatching. From the bungling hangmen sacked for incompetence and those driven to guilt-ridden suicide to the last to pull the lever at the height of the swinging sixties, the secrets of this form of capital punishment are finally revealed. They were the last of their kind, the hangmen of the 20th century; and this is their fascinating, sometimes repugnant, always enthralling story.