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This month has been a bit of a busy one for me work-wise, so I’ve not had much time to browse – but here are a few links to the stories I have...
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Posted by Sara M. Butler; 25 November 2020. On Saturday, June 15, 1287, an inquest was held at the king’s prison of Carlisle (Cumbria) into accusations...
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This is not a crime story, although it’s related to policing – it is more a reminder of how mental health issues can affected anybody, at any...
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Memorial to the Demerara slave rebellion of 1823, which commemorates the Guyanan resistance hero, Quamnina. I suppose it is too much to ask for...
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Youth With Executioner by Nuremberg native Albrecht Dürer … although it’s dated to 1493, which was during a period of several years when...
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On this date in 1941, Ivan Sullivan was hanged at Fort Madison, Iowa — in a prison yard near where he’d committed his crime. Sullivan was lumbered...
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Iranian Kurdish activist Ehsan Fatahian was hanged on this date in 2009 in Sanandaj, the provincial capital of Iranian Kurdistan. He was condemned for...
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On this date in 1066, John Scotus was sacrificed to the Slavic god Radegast. That’s Scotus not as in the Supreme Court of the United States, but...
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(Thanks to the Communist historian C.L.R. James for this guest post, an excerpt of his classic exploration of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins....
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At a hanging-day at Tyburn on this date in 1738, 11 men (no women) were executed en masse. Nine committed different varieties of malappropriation: burglaries,...
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Pedro María Ñancúpel Alarcón, famiiarly nicknamed “the pirate Ñancúpel”, was shot on this date in...
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The brigand Luis Candelas was garroted in Madrid on this date in 1837. Candelas — that’s a Spanish link, as are most available sources on the...
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The town of Baden-Baden today (image (c) Nell Darby) On this day in 1906, in the genteel spa town of Baden-Baden, Germany, Josephine Molitor was shot dead....
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On this date in 1959, Guenther Podola became the last man hanged in Great Britain for killing a police officer. A German emigre, Podola had been deported...
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Bonfire night is upon us again and, despite the ongoing pandemic, dusk is ushered in by the sound of fireworks as it has been for the last few weeks. This...
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From the Central New Jersey Home News (New Brunswick, N.J.), Nov. 5, 1912: Two hours after he had eaten a hearty supper and sat in his cell waiting for...
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Yakov Blumkin was executed on this date in 1929. It was a decade and more since he’d made his great historical mark, the July 1918 assassination...
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This was the date in 1984 of the Hondh-Chillar massacre It was one of the many atrocities of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that ensued the assassination of...
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On this date in 1939, Polish Olympian Edmund Jankowski was shot by the Third Reich. Jankowski (English Wikipedia entry | Polish) earned bronze in the coxed...
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