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For the Benefit of Example: scene-of-crime executions in Georgian Gloucestershire
Men and women sentenced to death by Gloucestershire's C18th assize court were usually executed at Over or the county gaol but in exceptional circumstances were carted back to the crime scene, and put to death on makeshift gallows. The organisation required for processing convicts across miles of open country was demanding and expensive, yet between 1720 and 1783, nine Gloucestershire men were hanged at places as distant from Gloucester as Mitcheldean, Rodborough and Chipping Campden. How w
7.30 p.m.. Admission £3.00 at the door (Historical Association members and students free)
Teaching Centre, University of Gloucestershire, Park Campus, Cheltenham GL50 2RH
Mon 16 Jan 2017
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