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

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

Vic Gatrell

656 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction crime history 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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