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For the Benefit of Example: Hanging felons at the Scene of their Crime in Georgian Gloucestershire
A talk by Steve Poole from the University of the West of England. Men and women sentenced to death by Gloucestershire's eighteenth century assize court were usually executed either at Over or at the county gaol, but might, in exceptional circumstances, be carted back to the crime scene, and there put to death on makeshift gallows. The organisation required for processing convicts across miles of open country to relatively obscure rural parishes was both demanding and expensive, yet between
7.30pm start
Free for Historical Association members and students, £3 for other attendees
Free for Historical Association members and students, £3 for other attendees
University of Gloucestershire Park Campus, Cheltenham GL50 2RH
Mon 16 Jan 2017
Website:
www.hagloucestershire.btck.co.uk
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