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Teas and Talks - For the Benefit of Example

Steve Poole Professor of History and Heritage University of the West of England Hanging people at the scene of their crime in South West England, 1730-1830 In the Georgian period, men and women sentenced to death by the West Country’s assize courts were usually executed either at the county gaol or on traditional hanging grounds sited on the peripheries of the region’s county towns. By the 1790s, most of these executions were carried out on purpose built scaffolds with trapdoor systems – a... See more >

2.00pm

£6.00 per person
Shire Hall Museum High West Street Dorchester DT1 1UY
Sat 24 Apr 21

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