The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868

written by: V. A. C. [Vic] Gatrell

Hanging people for petty 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, watched by crowds of thousands. This acclaimed study is the first to explore what a wide range of people