Author: William Jackson (of the Inner Temple.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
The New and Complete Newgate Calendar ... Containing ... Narratives ... of the Various Executions and Other Exemplary Punishments ... in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, from the Year 1700 to the Present Time
Author: William Jackson (of the Inner Temple.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
The New and Complete Newgate Calendar; Or, Villary Displayed in All Its Branches
Author: William JacksonThe new and complete Newgate calendar; or, Villany displayed in all its branches
Author: William Jackson (of the Inner temple.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Culloden
Author: Paul O'KeeffePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473546095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
'Excellent... It is a tremendous tale - one of the most dramatic in our island's history - and O'Keeffe tells it beautifully' The Times Charles Edward Stuart's campaign to seize the British throne ended with one of the quickest defeats in history: on 16 April 1746, at Culloden, his Jacobite army was overpowered in under forty minutes. Its brutal repercussions, however, endured for years, its legacy for centuries. Paul O'Keeffe follows the Jacobite army from initial victories to calamitous defeat. Exploring the battle's aftermath, he chronicles the Jacobite prisoners paying for their treason on block and gibbet while those granted 'the King's mercy' suffered the fate of forced labour on plantations in the colonies. While Stuart's cause eventually acquired an aura of romanticism, the Jacobite Rising remains one of the most bloody and divisive conflicts in British domestic history, which resonates to this day. 'Detailed, vivid - and not for the faint-hearted' Financial Times 'Fascinating, meticulously researched... tremendous' Daily Mail 'Intensely readable... and vividly written' Neal Ascherson, London Review of Books
The New & Complete Newgate Calendar
Author: William JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
The New and Complete Newgate Calendar
Author: William JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Bibliography of Australia
Author: John Alexander FergusonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
THE CHRONICLES OF NEWGATE
Author: ARTHUR GRIFFITHSHarnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
Author: Sarah TarlowPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319779087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture. Starting with a consideration of the criminal corpse in the medieval and early modern periods, chapters go on to review the histories of criminal justice, of medical history and of gibbeting under the Murder Act, and ends with some discussion of the afterlives of the corpse, in literature, folklore and in contemporary medical ethics. Using sophisticated insights from cultural history, archaeology, literature, philosophy and ethics as well as medical and crime history, this book is a uniquely interdisciplinary take on a fascinating historical phenomenon.