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London: The Executioner's City (Paperback, New Ed)
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London: The Executioner's City (Paperback, New Ed)
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Loot Price R370
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Tyburn Fields is the best known site of execution in London, but
London may be aptly named the executioner's city, so many were the
places where executions could and did occur. "London: The
Executioner's City" reveals the capital as a place where the bodies
of criminals defined the boundaries of the city and heads on poles
greeted patrons on London Bridge. The ubiquity of crime and
punishment was taken for granted by countless generations of the
capital's inhabitants, though it seems to have done little to stem
the tide of criminality that has always threatened to engulf the
city. The book is a powerful evocation of the dark side of London's
history, where the great and not so good, the poor and helpless,
the cruel and the idealistic crowd together to be punished in
public. A king and more than one queen, heretics, archbishops,
pirates, poisoners, plotters, murderers, and a cook executed for
selling putrid fish met death by hanging, beheading, burning, or
boiling in London, and on most occasions the crowd roared its
approval.
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