Britain's Most Notorious Hangmen
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Stephen Wade
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-16 - Publisher: Wharncliffe

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A breathtaking history of Britain’s executioners—from the seventeenth court of King Charles II to the UK’s last official hangman of the twentieth century.
Pierrepoint
Language: en
Pages: 185
Authors: Steve Fielding
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-07-07 - Publisher: Kings Road Publishing

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Between them, the three men in the fearsome Pierrepoint dynasty executed over 800 people during a career spanning more than half a century. Henry, his brother T
Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900
Language: en
Pages: 411
Authors: Simon Devereaux
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-10-26 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book charts the history of execution laws and practices in the era of the 'Bloody Code' and their extraordinary transformation by 1900. Innovative and comp
Behind Bars – Britain's Most Notorious Prisoner Reveals What Life is Like Inside
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Charles Bronson
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-02-28 - Publisher: Kings Road Publishing

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Charlie has taken his 24 years of experience of prison dwelling and condensed it into one handy and comprehensive volume. Moved regularly around the prisons of
A Date with the Hangman
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Gary Dobbs
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-19 - Publisher: Pen and Sword

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A true-crime history of 20th-century, British judicial hangings from 1900 to 1964, and a look at the overall history of executions in Great Britain. It is a sob