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Hanging People For Small Crimes As Well As Grave, The Bloody Penal Code Was At Its Most Active Between 1770 And 1830. Some 7,000 Men And Women Were Executed On Public Scaffolds Then, Watched By Crowds Of Thousands. Hanging Was Confined To Murderers Thereafter, But These Were Still Killed In Public Until 1868. Clearly The Gallows Loomed Over Much Of Social Life In This Period. But How Did Those Who Watched, Read About, Or Ordered These Strangulations Feel About The Terror And Suffering Inflicted In The Law's Name? What Kind Of Justice Was Delivered, And How Did It Change? This Book Is The First To Explore What A Wide Range Of People Felt About These Ceremonies (rather Than What A Few Famous Men Thought And Wrote About Them).^ A History Of Mentalities, Emotions, And Attitudes Rather Than Of Policies And Ideas, It Analyses Responses To The Scaffold At All Social Levels: Among The Crowds Which Gathered To Watch Executions; Among 'polite' Commentators From Boswell And Byron On To Fry, Thackeray, And Dickens; And Among The Judges, Home Secretary, And Monarch Who Decided Who Should Hang And Who Should Be Reprieved. Drawing On Letters, Diaries, Ballads, Broadsides, And Images, As Well As O

Author

Gatrell, V. A. C.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192853325

Subjects

Social Science, History, Social_sciences

Rating

4.1 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14