Author: Mary BlandyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
A genuine and impartial account of the life of miss Mary Blandy
Author: Mary BlandyTrial of Mary Blandy
Author: William RougheadPublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
The First Forensic Hanging
Author: Summer StrevensPublisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1526736217
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
‘For the sake of decency, gentlemen, don't hang me high.’ This was the last request of modest murderess Mary Blandy, who was hanged for poisoning her father in 1752. Concerned that the young men in the crowd who had thronged to see her execution might look up her skirts as she was ‘turned off’ by the hangman, this last nod to propriety might appear farcical in one who was about to meet her maker. Yet this was just another aspect of a case which attracted so much public attention in its day that some determined spectators even went to the lengths of climbing through the courtroom windows to get a glimpse of Mary while on trial. Indeed her case remained newsworthy for the best part of 1752, for months garnering endless scrutiny and mixed reaction in the popular press. Opinions are certainly still divided on the matter of Mary’s ‘intention’ in the poisoning of her father, and the extent to which her coercive lover, Captain William Cranstoun, was responsible for this murder by proxy. Yet Mary Blandy’s trial was also notable in that it was the first time that detailed medical evidence had been presented in a court of law on a charge of murder by poisoning, and the first time that any court had accepted toxicological evidence in an arsenic poisoning case. The forensic legacy of the acceptance of Dr Anthony Addington’s application of chemistry to a criminal investigation is another compelling aspect of The First Forensic Hanging.
Print Culture, Crime and Justice in 18th-Century London
Author: Richard M. WardPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472511905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In the first half of the 18th century there was an explosion in the volume and variety of crime literature published in London. This was a 'golden age of writing about crime', when the older genres of criminal biographies, social policy pamphlets and 'last-dying speeches' were joined by a raft of new publications, including newspapers, periodicals, graphic prints, the Old Bailey Proceedings and the Ordinary's Account of malefactors executed at Tyburn. By the early 18th century propertied Londoners read a wider array of printed texts and images about criminal offenders – highwaymen, housebreakers, murderers, pickpockets and the like – than ever before or since. Print Culture, Crime and Justice in 18th-Century London provides the first detailed study of crime reporting across this range of publications to explore the influence of print upon contemporary perceptions of crime and upon the making of the law and its administration in the metropolis. This historical perspective helps us to rethink the relationship between media, the public sphere and criminal justice policy in the present.
A catalogue of tracts, pamphlets, prints, and drawings, illustrating Oxfordshire. On sale
Author: Alfred Russell SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oxfordshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold
Author: Horace BleackleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Criminal Justice During the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: David LemmingsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429678460
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
This book applies three overlapping bodies of work to generate fresh approaches to the study of criminal justice in England and Ireland between 1660 and 1850. First, crime and justice are interpreted as elements of the "public sphere" of opinion about government. Second, "performativity" and speech act theory are considered in the context of the Anglo-Irish criminal trial, which was transformed over the course of this period from an unmediated exchange between victim and accused to a fully lawyerized performance. Thirdly, the authors apply recent scholarship on the history of emotions, particularly relating to the constitution of "emotional communities" and changes in "emotional regimes".
The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Andrew CunninghamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521382359
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
A series of essays on the development of medicine in the century of the Enlightenment, illustrating the decline in the role of religion in medical thinking, and the increased use of reason.
The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities
Author: Simon SternPublisher:
ISBN: 0190695625
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 921
Book Description
How might law matter to the humanities? How might the humanities matter to law? In its approach to both of these questions, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities shows how rich a resource the law is for humanistic study, as well as how and why the humanities are vital for understanding law. Tackling questions of method, key themes and concepts, and a variety of genres and areas of the law, this collection of essays by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines illuminates new questions and articulates an exciting new agenda for scholarship in law and humanities.
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd