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Claude Du Vall: The Ladies’ Highwayman

21 Feb 2020
By Stephen Basdeo In 1671 the poet and satirist wrote an ode ‘To the Memory of the Most Renowned Du-Vall’.[1] It celebrated the bravery and heroism of an English highwaymen…
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“Launched into Eternity”: Public Hangings and Last Dying Speeches in 18th-Century England

14 Jan 201514 Jan 2015
During the 18th century crime was the talk of the town in England. In 1751, the crime rate had reached such hellish proportions that the Magistrate of Westminster, Henry Fielding…

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