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...
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