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The Common Room / Hangings and Cockfighting (New Q)
« on: Monday 24 January 11 13:07 GMT (UK) »
Hi all,
I'm just after a bit of advice and hopefully a point in the right direction with some examples.
I am after any examples or insight into the death penalty between 1700 and about 1850 in the UK, well, England really.
I have started a creative writing course and for my end project I have decided to concentrate on the last few days of someone in York Castle, awaiting his fate, "to be hung by the neck until dead".
I recently bought the "Tyburn Tales: The Criminal Chronology of York Castle " book http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tyburn-Tales-Criminal-Chronology-Castle/dp/0752455370 which gives a summary of crimes and their executions and am going to focus on a character in there (actual person tbc).
So, I am just after any links to websites which will help me to 'flesh out' the process; the people, the hangmen, the prisons, the process.
Any help, gratefully recieved.
Thanks.
I'm just after a bit of advice and hopefully a point in the right direction with some examples.
I am after any examples or insight into the death penalty between 1700 and about 1850 in the UK, well, England really.
I have started a creative writing course and for my end project I have decided to concentrate on the last few days of someone in York Castle, awaiting his fate, "to be hung by the neck until dead".
I recently bought the "Tyburn Tales: The Criminal Chronology of York Castle " book http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tyburn-Tales-Criminal-Chronology-Castle/dp/0752455370 which gives a summary of crimes and their executions and am going to focus on a character in there (actual person tbc).
So, I am just after any links to websites which will help me to 'flesh out' the process; the people, the hangmen, the prisons, the process.
Any help, gratefully recieved.
Thanks.