Hanging Tree

Auteur: Gatrell, V. A. C. (University Lecturer and Fellow, University Lecturer and Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Editeur: Oxford University Press
Hanging people for small crimes as well as grave, the Bloody Penal Code was at its most active between 1770 and 1830. In those years some 7000 men and women were executed on public scaffolds, watched by thousands. This book explores what a wide range of people felt about these ceremonies.
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ISBN / EAN 9780192853325
Auteur Gatrell, V. A. C. (University Lecturer and Fellow, University Lecturer and Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Editeur Oxford University Press