Tyburn's martyrs : execution in England, 1675-1775 /
The public execution at Tyburn is one of the most evocative and familiar of all eighteenth-century images. Whether it elicits horror or prurient fascination - or both - the Tyburn hanging day has become synonymous with the brutality of a bygone age and a legal system which valued property over human...
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London :
Hambledon Continuum,
2007
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