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Category: Execution

Charles Dickens…

The Pont-Neuf: or, Mr Pickwick Attends an Execution

25 Mar 2021
Written by George W.M. Reynolds Transcribed by Jessica Elizabeth Thomas [Of all the evil associations of the vice of drinking, gambling is one of the most constant and the most…
11th Century…

The Virgin and the Outlaw

5 Jun 2018
By Stephen Basdeo In modern popular culture, heroes often possess some supernatural powers, or at other times they are so skilled at what they do that their superiority often appears…
17th century…

Criminality and Animal Cruelty in 18th-Century England

17 Dec 201717 Dec 2017
I am currently in the final stages of editing a book chapter I have written for Prof. Alexander Kaufman’s and Penny Vlagopoulos’s forthcoming work entitled Food and Feasting in Post-1700…
11th Century…

Hang’d, Drawn, and Quartered! “Spectacular Justice” during the Medieval and Early Modern Period

31 Aug 20173 May 2018
Katherine Royer’s new book, The English Execution Narrative, 1200-1700 (2015) analyses the meanings behind the often gruesome executions carried out in the medieval and early modern period. Reviewed  by Stephen…
18th century…

Victor Hugo’s “The Last Day of a Condemned Man” (1829)

7 Jul 2017
Last week Google celebrated the life of Victor Hugo (1802-85) with some quirky illustrations on its masthead, so I thought I would do the same by writing a post on…

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