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Britain's Most Notorious Hangmen

Author : Stephen Wade
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1844688402
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Britain's Most Notorious Hangmen written by Stephen Wade and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In 1663, Jack Ketch delighted in his profession and gained notoriety not only because of those he executed—dukes and lords—but for how often he botched the job. Centuries later, in 1965, after nearly six hundred trips to the gallows, Albert Pierrepoint retired as Britain’s longest-running executioner. Between them are three hundred years in a fascinating history of crime, and the “turn-off men” who handled the penalties—many of them criminals themselves, doing the grim work to save their own necks. Britain’s Most Notorious Hangmen tells the stories of the men who plied their deadly trade at Tyburn tree or at the scaffolds in the prison yards across the country, including such notable “neck-stretchers” as Throttler Smith and the celebrated James Billington. But true-crime historian Stephen Wade explores the lives and crimes of many of the infamous killers that were hanged, as well. He also sheds light on the changing social norms of the country, and the moral dilemmas that arose for hangmen tasked with performing what was once considered the most crowd-pleasing free “entertainment” ever offered to the public.

Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900

Author : Simon Devereaux
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100939214X
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900 written by Simon Devereaux and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 comprehensive, this work will find an audience with scholars interested in the history of crime and punishment in England.

Pierrepoint

Author : Steve Fielding
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1843585634
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Pierrepoint written by Steve Fielding and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Thomas, and his son Albert, dispatched some of the most infamous criminals of the 20th century, and in the process earned a public notoriety that followed them throughout their eventful lives.For years, the three men were faced with the task -- prestigious to some, horrific to many others -- of being the last point of contact for the guilty and condemned. The Pierrepoints executed criminals the nation over before travelling to many countries including Egypt and postwar Germany, where they hanged Nazi war criminals, and gained a reputation as the world's most deadly practitioners of the art of hanging."Pierrepoint: A Family of Executioners" recounts the intriguing stories of the three men and the effect that their macabre occupation had on their personal lives. This definitive guide is filled with shocking inside tales from the official records and diaries kept by the Pierrepoint family. With revealing insights into the intense rivalry between fellow executioners, new light is shed on the menacing world of years gone by.

A Date with the Hangman

Author : Gary Dobbs
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526747448
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book A Date with the Hangman written by Gary Dobbs and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 sobering thought that until the closing years of the twentieth century, Britain’s courts were technically able to impose the death penalty for several offenses, both civil and military. Although the last judicial hangings took place in 1964, the death penalty, in theory at least, remained for a number of crimes. During the twentieth century, 865 people were executed in Britain. This book examines each and every one of those executions, and in many cases highlights the crimes that brought these men and women to the gallows. The book also details the various forms of capital punishment used throughout British history. During past centuries people were burned at the stake, had the skin flayed from their bodies, were beheaded, garroted, hung, drawn and quartered, stoned, disemboweled, buried alive—and all under the guidance of a vengeful law, or at least what passed for law at any given period. The author, Gary M. Dobbs, has painstakingly collected together every available piece of evidence to provide as clear a picture as possible of a time when the law operated on the principle of an eye for an eye. Dobbs is a true-crime historian and has spent many hours researching the cases featured herein to bring the reader a definitive history of judicial punishment during the twentieth century, and this carefully researched, well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to anyone interested in the darker side of history. “A brilliant read.” —Books Monthly (UK)

Haunted Hull

Author : Mark Riley
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752481754
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Haunted Hull written by Mark Riley and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bustling city of Hull has a long and distinguished history, but the area also harbours some disturbing secrets.Discover the darker side of Hull with this terrifying collection of spine-chilling tales from around the city. From poltergeists and phantoms to the mysterious stories of the floating vicar, Little Emily and Old Mother Riley, this book includes many pulse-raising narratives that are guaranteed to make you blood run cold.Illustrated with over sixty pictures Haunted Hull will delight everyone interested in the paranormal.

Deadly Derbyshire

Author : Scott Lomax
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844687007
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Deadly Derbyshire written by Scott Lomax and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of historical British true crime stories, with illustrations included. From the murder of Hannah Hewitt in 1732 to John Cotton’s killing in 1898, Deadly Derbyshire gathers dramatic, atmospheric true tales of murder and manslaughter in this county in England’s East Midlands. Read about the “fiery” circumstances of the death of John McMorrow; a farm tragedy at Stoney Houghton; and killings for pittances such as three eggs and a sixpence. You’ll also discover stories of unprovoked and wicked deeds and numerous suspicious deaths. Based on extensive research of newspaper archives, uncovering a large number of cases never previously explored, this compendium examines the darker side of this historical port city.

Unsolved Murders in South Yorkshire

Author : Scott Lomax
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473822432
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Unsolved Murders in South Yorkshire written by Scott Lomax and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst the passage of time can and has uncovered many secrets, killers could get away with their crimes in 1596 when Shakespeare penned these words and this is certainly the case in more recent times as Unsolved Murders in South Yorkshire clearly demonstrate.The early chapters include cases of historic interest where killers certainly went to the grave in the knowledge they had got away with murder. Cases include suspicious deaths which left detectives in South Yorkshire baffled, but which were, it would seem, acts of callous murder which were not recognised as such due to dubious police opinions and practices. There are also cases of clear murder such as a man shot in the head during the Victorian period, whose killer was never identified.The later chapters, however, feature more recent cold cases where there is still the possibility that the wicked men or women who were responsible for such acts of inhumanity may remain within our society.Cases include a man murdered for less than 70 in a city centre multi storey car park, a teenage girl abducted, sexually assaulted and left dead on a dung hill, a young mother who entered prostitution and died at the hands of a man with more than sex on his mind, a pregnant woman who left home one day to go shopping but was found days later dead in a ditch with her throat cut and a disabled woman who was strangled in her home which was then set ablaze.For some of these cases there is the chance that someone has information which, despite the passage of decades, could lead to one or more individuals standing trial for murder. Justice can still prevail.

Behind Bars – Britain's Most Notorious Prisoner Reveals What Life is Like Inside

Author : Charles Bronson
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782192506
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Behind Bars – Britain's Most Notorious Prisoner Reveals What Life is Like Inside written by Charles Bronson and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the British Isles he has sampled all that prison life has to offer, taking in both the historic and pre-historic buildings that comprise Britain's infamous prison system. It's all in here from the correct way to brew vintage prison 'hooch' and how to keep the screws from finding it, to the indispensable culinary methods required to make prison food edible. Read about Charlie's special taming techniques for prison wildlife such as spiders, rats and cockroaches, creatures that may be your only friends on long stretches in solitary. Also Charlie shows how to plan and prepare for marriage inside what can be seen as a less than romantic setting. With over 70,000 people (and rising) currently residing at Her Majesty's pleasure, Charlie Bronson's "Good Prison Guide" is essential for young offenders and 'old lags' alike. Make sure you don't get nicked without it.

I Shall Not Die But Live

Author : Joost Hogenboom
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300986557
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book I Shall Not Die But Live written by Joost Hogenboom and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of London's Prisons

Author : Geoffrey Howse
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783030674
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book A History of London's Prisons written by Geoffrey Howse and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The A-Z of London Murders takes readers behind the bars of the city’s numerous jails and tells the tales of their most infamous inmates. London has had more prisons than any other British city. The City’s “gates” once contained prisons but probably the most notorious of all was Newgate, which stood for over seven hundred years. The eleventh-century Tower of London was used as a prison for a variety of high profile prisoners from Sir Thomas More to the Krays. Discover the background of a variety of historic places of incarceration such as the Clink, the King’s Bench Prison, and debtors’ prisons such as the Fleet Prison and the Marshalsea. “Lost” prisons such as the Gatehouse in Westminster, Millbank Penitentiary, Surrey County Gaol in Horsemonger Lane, the House of Detention, Coldbath Fields Prison, and Tothill Fields Bridewell Prison are also described in detail; as are more familiar jails: Holloway, Pentonville, Brixton, Wandsworth, and Wormwood Scrubs. In A History of London’s Prisons, Geoffrey Howse delves not only into the intricate web of historical facts detailing the origins of the capital’s prisons but also includes fascinating detail concerning the day-to-day life of prisoners—from the highly born to the most despicable human specimens imaginable—as well as those less fortunate individuals who found themselves through no fault of their own “in the clink,” some soon becoming clients of the hangman or executioner.

Playing to the Crowd

Author : F. Burwick
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230370659
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Playing to the Crowd written by F. Burwick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities.

Britain's Most Notorious Prisoners

Author : Stephen Wade
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1844685187
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Britain's Most Notorious Prisoners written by Stephen Wade and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Oscar Wilde to the Kray brothers—a unique history of the lives and crimes of the United Kingdom’s most famous, and infamous, inmates. Their names can chill the blood of true-crime aficionados: Peter Sutcliffe, aka The Yorkshire Ripper; child-torturer Ian Brady; cannibal Dennis Nilsen; serial killer Beverley Allitt. Some are tinged in glamour: beautiful nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis, hanged for a crime of passion. While others hold a bizarre fascination, like bare-knuckle boxer Michael Gordon Peterson. Called “the most violent prisoner in Britain” he changed his name to Charles Bronson in honor of the Death Wish star. Only to change it yet again to Charles Salvador, in honor of his favorite artist, Dali. By any name, the “one-man riot” was a prison superstar. Britain’s Most Notorious Prisoners tells the stories of these lives and many more inside the Big House where prison culture breeds a strange, unreal community. It’s also where the system learns to cope with those who refuse to live by the law of the land: killers and rapists, spies, gangster, hit-men, political prisoners, and serial offenders—as well as some who were egregiously wronged. From headline-makers to long-forgotten villains, these stories make for a thrilling and harrowing look at life, death, and survival behind bars.

The Executioner's Bible

Author : Steve Fielding
Publisher : Blake Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781844544226
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book The Executioner's Bible written by Steve Fielding and published by Blake Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been just over 40 years since a gallows was last used in Great Britain, and the secrets behind the men who pulled the lever and dropped the condemned to their deaths are still shrouded in mystery. This account tells the story of the working-class men who carried out this profession until its abolition in the late 1960s. The hangman's rope was part of an exact science, and in their day, the men who undertook the job assumed the profiles of infamous celebrities, their reputations often rivaling the notorious criminals they were charged with dispatching. From the bungling hangmen sacked for incompetence and those driven to guilt-ridden suicide to the last to pull the lever at the height of the swinging sixties, the secrets of this form of capital punishment are finally revealed. They were the last of their kind, the hangmen of the 20th century; and this is their fascinating, sometimes repugnant, always enthralling story. Steve Fielding's previous works include The Hangman's Record, Pierrepoint: A Family of Executioners,and The Murder Casebookseries.

Sperm, Wonderful Sperm!

Author : Alan Smithie
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438981589
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Sperm, Wonderful Sperm! written by Alan Smithie and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I remember a report some time ago extolling the health benefits of the vitamins found in sperm, with the advice that in preparation for having a healthy and intelligent baby, for some months before becoming pregnant a woman should swallow her partner's sperm. You can rest assured this report was compiled by a team of men. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact I set out to write a book entitled "49," a humorously light-hearted fly-on-the-wall look at my life from the day before my forty-ninth birthday to the day I hit fifty. A story of how I was coping with being too old for a mid-life crisis, counting the days tick down until the inevitable half-century. Should I be wearing socks with sandals; when would I start to enjoy pastimes that involved either binoculars, a fishing rod, making boats out of used matchsticks, a tandem bicycle or Morris dancing? Was I developing man-breasts, and more importantly, would the next woman I meet have bingo-wings? What pre-fifty pastimes would I be consigning to the dusty bin of life - wearing Ramones T-shirts and ogling young girls; my T-shirt definitely had to go. Maybe I wouldn't even make it to the end of the book; instead I'd meet my end running the Snowdonia Marathon. As it was I did make it to the end. Having spent a year writing "49" and many months trying to get a publishing deal without success, I started to write a blog. I pretty soon realised the missing ingredient - sex: sex sells. Post a good title and you have a success; mention anal sex and you have a best-seller. Without a second thought I changed the book title to "Sperm, Wonderful Sperm!" and quickly contacted an online print-on-demand publisher. This is the result...

The Hangmen of England

Author : Horace Bleackley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hangmen of England written by Horace Bleackley and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Loonyology

Author : Charles Bronson
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1908382694
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Loonyology written by Charles Bronson and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2011-11-09 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lifer Charlie Bronson's reputation precedes him - ‘Britain's most violent prisoner’ - or does it? Do we really know the true Charlie, or are our impressions the result of media hype? Well, what is in no doubt is that Loonyology is 200% Bronson and will transport the reader on the dizziest no-holds-barred roller-coaster ride of their lives, from suspense and shock to laughter and tears, and from Bronson the ‘Solitary King’ to Bronson the Philosopher, the Poet, the Artist, the Author, the Joker, the Walking Scar and the Freedom Fighter. Now 55 years old, and having spent most of his last 34 years as a maximum security ‘Bronco Zoo’ inmate, he’s a much wiser man as he looks back on his crazy journey of unpredictable behaviour, his ever-alert mind darting from reminiscences of his teenage years to memories of fellow-cons, the screws, the cranks, letters and news reports, prison life and procedures, and the overall madness (‘loonyology’) of the legal and penal systems, peppering his stories with diary entries, true gems of information, sound advice and hilarious one-liners. Together with his many supporters and with the aid of a top lawyer, Charlie is campaigning for the parole board to finally allow him his freedom, but begging is not his style: he calls a spade a spade and is determined to win with dignity, fighting with his pen and his brain to achieve his aim of a life outside ‘the cage’. In his words: “I chose to be a villain. I’m not proud of it, nor am I ashamed of it. I have paid my debt to society and it’s time to go home.”

Prisons Prisoners Victorian Britain

Author : Neil R Storey
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075247636X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Prisons Prisoners Victorian Britain written by Neil R Storey and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prisons and Prisoners in Victorian Britain' provides an illustrated insight into the Victorian prison system and the experiences of those within it - on both sides of the bars. Featuring stories of crime and misdeeds, this fascinating book includes chapters on a typical day inside a Victorian prison - food, divine service, exercise and medical provision; the punishments inflicted on convicts - such as hard labour, flogging, the treadwheel and shot drill; and, an overview of the ultimate penalty paid by prisoners - execution. Richly illustrated with a series of photographs, engravings, documents and letters, this volume is sure to appeal to all those interested in crime and social history in Victorian Britain.