Hanged At Durham

Author : Steve Fielding
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750953368

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Hanged at Durham by Steve Fielding Pdf

For decades the high walls of Durham gaol have contained some of the countrys most infamous criminals. Until hanging was abolished in the 1960s it was also the main centre of execution for convicted killers from all over the north east. The history of execution within the walls of Durham Gaol began with the hanging of two labourers side by side in 1869, by the notorious hangman William Calcraft. Over the next ninety years a total of seventy-seven people took the short walk to the gallows - including poisoner Mary Cotton, who for over a century was the worst mass murderer in Great Britain, Gatesheads copycat Jack the Ripper, William Waddell, army deserter Brian Chandler, nineteen-year-old Edward Anderson, who murdered his blind uncle, a Teeside dock worker hanged on Christmas Eve, Carlisle muderer John Vickers, the first man hanged under the 1957 Homocide Act, and a South African sailor who preferred death to ten years in prison. Infamous executionors also played a part in the gaols history - Calcraft, who preferred slow strangulation, Marwood, the pioneer of the 'long drop', bungling Bartholomew Binns, the Billingtons, the Pierrepoint family, and Doncaster hangman Stephen Wade. Steve Fielding's highly readable new book features each of the seventy-five cases in one volume for the first time and is fully illustrated with photographs, news cuttings and engravings. It is bound to appeal to anyone interested in the darker side of County Durhams history.

Author : Maureen Anderson
Publisher : Wharncliffe
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-21
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781783408122

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Durham Executions by Maureen Anderson Pdf

Widespread poverty continued to exist in Durham at the start of the twentieth century. Improvement in working and housing conditions was a slow. Wages in dominant industries associated with iron and coal were higher than those who still worked on the land, in service and elsewhere but, for most families, it was a hard existence. The social and economic context of capital crimes are apparent in many of the cases featured in this volume. Alcohol-fuelled jealousy or the need for money was often the prelude to a meeting with the executioner. The voices against capital punishment became louder as the century progressed—but too late for the 55 men hanged at Durham, the last in 1958. Executions took place in private and, though witnessed, were not the great public spectacles of the past—but they provided good copy the newspapers of the day and the hangmen maintained a celebrity status.

Author : Maureen Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Executions and executioners
ISBN : 1845630548

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Durham Executions by Maureen Anderson Pdf

This title looks at the modern era, from 1900 until the last execution in 1958, the eve of the abolition of capital punishment.

Author : Patrick Low,Helen Rutherford,Clare Sandford-Couch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000095814

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Execution Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain by Patrick Low,Helen Rutherford,Clare Sandford-Couch Pdf

This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK, many specifically related to the fundamental change in capital punishment culture as the execution moved from the public arena to behind the prison wall. By examining a period of dramatic change in punishment practice, this collection of essays provides a fresh historical perspective on nineteenth century execution culture, with a focus on Scotland, Wales and the regions of England. From Public Spectacle to Hidden Ritual has two parts. Part 1 addresses the criminal body and the witnessing of executions in the nineteenth century, including studies of the execution crowd and executioners’ memoirs, as well as reflections on the experience of narratives around capital punishment in museums in the present day. Part 2 explores the treatment of the execution experience in the print media, from the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. The collection draws together contributions from the fields of Heritage and Museum Studies, History, Law, Legal History and Literary Studies, to shed new light on execution culture in nineteenth century Britain. This volume will be of interest to students and academics in the fields of criminology, heritage and museum studies, history, law, legal history, medical humanities and socio-legal studies.

Author : Steve Fielding
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780750953399

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Hanged at Pentonville by Steve Fielding Pdf

The history of execution at Pentonville began with the hanging of a Scottish hawker in 1902. Over the next sixty years the names of those who made the short walk to the gallows reads like a who's who of twentieth-century murder. They include the notorious Dr Crippen, Neville Heath, mass murderer John Christie of Rillington Place, as well as scores of forgotten criminals: German spies, Italian gangsters, teenage tearaways, cut-throat killers and many more. Infamous executioners also played a part in the gaol's history: the Billington family of Bolton, Rochdale barber John Ellis and Robert Baxter of Hertford who, for over a decade, was the sole executioner at Pentonville. For many years the prison was used to train the country's hangmen, including members of the well-known Pierrepoint family, Harry Allen and Robert Leslie Stewart, the country's last executioners. Fully illustrated with photographs, news-cuttings and engravings, Hanged at Pentonville is bound to appeal to anyone interested in the darker side of London's history.

Author : Thomas Graves Law
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Catholics
ISBN : BL:A0026341455

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A Calendar of the English Martyrs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Thomas Graves Law Pdf

Author : Steve Fielding
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-08
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780750953375

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Hanged at Liverpool by Steve Fielding Pdf

Over the years the high walls of Liverpool's Walton Gaol have contained some of the most infamous criminals from the north of England. Taking over from the fearsome Kirkdale House of Correction as the main centre of execution for Liverpool and other parts of Lancashire and neighbouring counties, a total of sixty-two murderers paid the ultimate penalty here.The history of execution at Walton began with the hanging of an Oldham nurse in 1887, and over the next seventy years many infamous criminals took the short walk to the gallows here. They include Blackburn child killer Peter Griffiths, whose guilt was secured following a massive fingerprint operation; Liverpool's Sack Murderer George Ball; George Kelly, since cleared of the Cameo Cinema murders, as well as scores of forgotten criminals: soldiers, gangsters, cut-throat killers and many more. Steve Fielding has fully researched all these cases, and they are collected here in one volume for the first time. Infamous executioners also played a part in the gaol's history. James Berry of Bradford was the first to officiate here, followed in due course by the Billington family of Bolton, Rochdale barber John Ellis and three members of the well-known Pierrepoint family, whose names appeared on the official Home Office list for over half a century. In 1964 one of the last two executions in the county took place at Liverpool. Fully illustrated with photographs, new cuttings and engravings, Hanged at Liverpool is bound to appeal to anyone interested in the darker side of both Liverpool and the north of England's history.

Author : Darrell S. Nixon
Publisher : Darrell S. Nixon
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Demonic County Durham: Axe Murder in Ferry-Hill near Durham, 1682 by Darrell S. Nixon Pdf

“25th January 1682(3). A sad cruel murther comitted by a boy about eighteen or nineteen years of age, nere Ferryhill, nere Durham, being Thursday, at night….” Over 300 years ago, Ferryhill, an obscure town in the south of County Durham, played host to one of the most horrid and tragic murders in the county’s history. A farm servant murdered the three children of his master in cold blood with an axe. It was described in a London print as the “most horrid and barbarous murder that ever was heard of in the North or elsewhere”. There was no motive for the crime, and nothing in the murderer’s character to suggest that such an event could take place, and yet in his later confession, the perpetrator said that he acted only on the “suggestion of the enemy” – The Devil. For the first time since the murders, all of the evidence leading up to, at the time of, and after the event is collected together as one of the most intriguing investigations into this sad and macabre event, and lays bare some interesting information that have never been known to the public before. Did the Devil come to Ferryhill? Read on, if you dare…

Author : Maureen Anderson
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781783037834

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Durham by Maureen Anderson Pdf

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Durham spans four centuries, with over fifty terrible tales of man's inhumanity to man, which are related in the pages of this book. In the early centuries superstition and ignorance were often the means by which justice was meted out. If it was believed that a crime had taken place, a person could be tried, condemned and hanged by the side of the road on nothing more than the statement of a neighbor. The nineteenth century saw the development of the coal industry. This brought thousands of impoverished men looking for work. Sadly , the wages were often spent on alcohol and women were often nothing more than punching bags for the drunken abusive husbands as is the case of Dorothy Wilthew who was murdered at Jarrow by her husband after years of abuse. Other cases include; Joseph Hutchinson who murdered his brother and father at Sedgefield later he was found to be insane, a child was kidnapped and later murdered by Isabella Thompson at Bishop Auckland and Maria Fitzmmons was found stabbed to death in Sunderland in 1869 it was to be 13 years before her killer, Thomas Fury, was convicted of the crime . Take a journey into the darker and unknown side of your area as you read Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Durham.

Author : Steve Fielding
Publisher : Hanged at
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0752457071

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Hanged at Winchester by Steve Fielding Pdf

For decades the high walls of Winchester Prison have contained some of the country's most infamous criminals. Until hanging was abolished in the 1960s it was also the main center of execution for those convicted in Hampshire. Among the executions carried out here was the hanging of soldier Abraham Goldenberg for the murder of a bank clerk; William Podmore, hanged in 1930 after killing a garage owner in Southampton; and two Polish refugees who murdered a have-a-go hero during a bungled bank robbery. Winchester was also the site of the last triple execution in Britain, when a Teignmouth coachman, a Southampton laborer and an eighteen-year-old rifleman based at Aldershot were hanged together for three unrelated crimes. Fully illustrated with photographs news cuttings and engravings, Hanged at Winchester features each of the cases in one volume for the first time and is sure to appeal to everyone interested in the shadier side of Hampshire's history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112100550521

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New Catholic World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3364011

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Catholic World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anthony William Twyford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555052254

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Records of York castle, by A.W. Twyford and A. Griffiths. [With] York and York castle: an appendix by Anthony William Twyford Pdf

Author : Charles Bronson
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782192510

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Bronson 3 - Up on the Roof by Charles Bronson Pdf

Charlie has taken his 30 years of prison dwelling and condensed it into one handy and comprehensive volume. Moved around the prisons of the British Isles regularly, he has sampled all that prison life has to offer, taking in both the historic and the pre-historic buildings that comprise Britain's 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 prison food and its many alternative uses. 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 streches in solitary. 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. Don't go away without it!

Author : Michael Questier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Christian martyrs
ISBN : 9780192847027

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Catholics and Treason by Michael Questier Pdf

Catholics and Treason takes the narratives generated by the contemporary law of treason as it applied to Roman Catholics, during and after the Reformation of the Church in the sixteenth century, and uses them to explore the Catholic community's writing of its own history. Prosecutions of Catholics under the existing law and via new legislation produced a great deal of documentation which tells us much about contemporary politics that we could not garner from any other source. The intention here is to locate the narratives of persecution inside the context of the 'mainstream' history of the period from which, for the most part, they have been routinely excluded but out of which they partly emerged. In that respect, this is the history of the post-Reformation Church and State with the politics (of violence) put back. This volume takes as its starting point the magnum opus of Bishop Richard Challoner, his Memoirs of Missionary Priests, and it works backwards from that book into the period that Challoner describes. Historian Michael Questier seeks to reassemble as far as possible the historical jigsaw puzzle on which Challoner laboured but which he could not complete, thinking about the implications for our view of the post-Reformation and of the way in which Challoner and others described the Catholic experience of in/tolerance.