The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868 by V. A. C. Gatrell

The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868

V. A. C. Gatrell

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nonfiction history sociology challenging informative slow-paced
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Hanging people for petty crimes as well as grave, the Bloody Penal Code was at its most active between 1770 and 1830. Some 7,000 men and women were executed on public scaffolds, watched by crowds of thousands. This acclaimed study is the first to...

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