Tyburn - Alan Brooke

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This book tells the story of how Tyburn came to be the place of execution, and of the rituals experienced at public executions.

Biographie:
Alan Brooke teaches history at Peterborough Regional College. David Brandon is a historian. He brings history to life through his popular lectures such as 'Absolute Rotters and Total Cads- Villains in British History'. He is the author of Stand and Deliver....

Sommaire:

Tyburn is synonymous with the idea of execution - over 50,000 people died there between the twelfth century and 1783. Among those who met their end at Tyburn were William Wallace, the Scottish patriot, Perkin Warbeck, who claimed to be one of the Princes in the Tower and the hated Jonathan Wild, perhaps London's first master criminal. Alan Brooke and David Brandon tell the story of how Tyburn came to be the place of execution and of the rituals and spectacle associated with the deaths of so many people, both famous and obscure. They provide a vivid picture of crime and punishment in London, mixing martyrs, pickpockets, traitors and errant aristocrats all playing their final scene on London's 'nevergreen tree'.