The New Newgate Calendar

Start the Week, on BBC Radio 4, Monday 30 December 2013, was fascinating. Andrew Marr discussed the teaching of history and the new history curriculum... read more »

On New Year’s Eve 1502, Cesare Borgia had two treacherous condottieri put to summary death at Senigallia. The Showtime series The Borgias got canceled... read more »

Monday 30 January 1839 The three boys, sent down for 30 days hard labour 28 January 1839, are quick to make their presence felt in Yarmouth Gaol. Today,... read more »

Three hundred fifty years ago today Anna Roleffes — nicknamed “Tempel Anneke” — became one of the last* witches executed in Braunschweig,... read more »

Underground cells at Yarmouth Gaol Sunday 29 December 1839 Last night Robert Harrod (15), William Hickling (14) and Walter Tunmore (12) spent the first... read more »

On this date in 1854, a Dakota Indian named Uhazy was publicly hanged in a scene of “Total Depravity” at St. Paul, Minnesota — the first... read more »

28 December 1839 'Sarah Martin the Jail Missionary' Women of Worth: A Book for Girls (London: James Hogg, 1859), p. 58 On Saturday 28 December 1839 three... read more »

The first documented executions of heretics in medieval Europe occurred on this date in 1022 in Orleans, when 13 or so were burned at Orleans. The French... read more »

These were the casualties that marked the end of the Zhidovstvuyushchiye, a little-known late 15th century circle of “Judaizers” or “Jewish-thinking... read more »

Obviously one of the major themes of this site, heresy executions haven’t been seen in Europe since 1826. They suffer, of course, from the keen paradox... read more »

(Thanks to Robert Elder of Last Words of the Executed — the blog, and the book — for the guest post. This post originally appeared on the Last... read more »

According to an AFP report, Iran hanged a drug trafficker in Sari, Mazandran province, on December 25, 2010 — “after being convicted of keeping,... read more »

Edinburgh, Scotland held a Christmas Eve 1715 hanging of a soldier for abortive plot in the abortive Jacobite rising of 1715 The plot was a bold conspiracy... read more »

On 28 December 1929, a Christmas party was held at St Catherine’s School, Gloucester, for the children, families and friends of the officers of HM... read more »

On this date in 1605, Nuremberg privy councillor Niklaus von Gulchen (or Gilgen) was beheaded for his scandalous corruption. The wheeler-dealer’s... read more »

Our headline dates (1780-1925) are far from being the whole story when it comes to thinking about data collection and record linkage. One of our stated... read more »

Were 69 C.E. known as the Year of the Three Emperors, maybe the long and glorious era of the porcine Vitellius would still be celebrated today. Unfortunately... read more »

On this date in 1893, Frederick Wyndham, aged 45, was hanged at Gloucester Gaol for the shotgun murder of his own father near Stroud. From Illustrated... read more »

Concluding my pre-Christmas round-up of reviews of my book over the past year or so...There has been no particular ranking of the reviews in this list;... read more »

One of the highlights of the period shortly after the publication of The Most Remarkable Woman in England last year was being interviewed on BBC Radio... read more »

Continuing my pre-Christmas round-up of reviews of my book over the past year... Another one of the more academic reviews of The Most Remarkable Woman... read more »

Hepburn Graham, masters’ mate aboard the HMS St. George, was tried by Admiralty court-martial in early December on a charge of sodomy forwarded by... read more »

The Tolhouse, Great Yarmouth Gaol, mid 1900s c. Norfolk County Council On Christmas Day 1839 inmates at Yarmouth Gaol tucked into a hearty meal of roast... read more »

On this date in 1475, the Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol was beheaded. The French King Louis XI “had need of a head such as his” because... read more »

Continuing my pre-Christmas round-up of reviews of my book over the past year... The issue of attitudes toward gender in the 1920s is a central issue in... read more »

Among the various academic reviews that have appeared of The Most Remarkable Woman in England, that by Matthew Houlbrook was especially nice:What became... read more »

From the Dec. 18, 1894 Atchison (Ks.) Daily: HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 18. — John Cronin was hanged here at 1:00 o’clock this morning. The execution... read more »

Among the positive reviews The Most Remarkable Woman in England received was one in the Literary Review from historian Dominic Sandbrook (probably known... read more »

On this date in 1963, gallows traps dropped simultaneously in Bristol and Winchester to hang two men for murdering a Cornish farmer. Russell Pascoe and... read more »

We have funding for two (UK/EU) PhD students, based at the University of Liverpool, to start in February 2014. Application deadline: Friday 10 January... read more »

On this date in 1794,* a revolutionary Montagnard who had overstayed his welcome made his departure through the guillotine’s window. Carrier (English... read more »

The World War II occupation of the Latvian town of Liepaja (Libau, to the Germans) produced mass executions throughout 1941. This date in 1941 commenced... read more »

On the morning of December 14, 1759, William Davis succumbed to a self-inflicted wound rather than face St. Croix’s harsh justice for an alleged... read more »

Gloucester County Lunatic Asylum, 1848 (ancestryimages.com) On 27 June 1878, Thomas James Webb, an epileptic who was an inmate of the Gloucester County... read more »

On this date in 1980, 17-year-old Turkish student radical Erdal Eren was hanged as a terrorist by the military regime. Eren (Turkish Wikipedia link; most... read more »

Continuing my pre-Christmas round-up of reviews of my book over the past year...A couple of very positive things were said about the book even before it... read more »

Continuing my pre-Christmas round-up of reviews of my book over the past year...While there's something great about all positive reviews, of course, getting... read more »

On this date in 1957, Jorge Villanueva Torres was shot in Lima, Peru as the notorious “Monstruo de Armendáriz”. Except Jorge Villanueva Torres... read more »

The shortest comment in the Twelve Reviews of Christmas appeared, appropriately enough, on Twitter not long after The Most Remarkable Woman in England... read more »

Christmas is nigh upon us and in honour of the holidays I've decided to relate a few stories of (perceived) excess. I came across these incidents in the... read more »

From the Dec. 12, 1876 Argus (Melbourne, Australia): EXECUTION OF BONDIETTO. Basilio Bondietto, who was tried and convicted at the last criminal sittings... read more »

Continuing my pre-Christmas round-up of reviews of my book over the past year... One of my favourite comments about the book came unexpectedly shortly... read more »

From The Fabulous Frontier, 1846-1912. (The entire text below is a single large paragraph in that book, so line breaks have been added for readability.)... read more »

In The Kiss of Lamourette,[1] Robert Darnton suggested that ambition of historians in studying individual people, documents or rituals was 'to understand... read more »

Continuing my pre-Christmas round-up of reviews of my book over the past year...  One of the early reviews of The Most Remarkable Woman in England... read more »

(Thanks to Robert Elder of Last Words of the Executed — the blog, and the book — for the guest post. This post originally appeared on the Last... read more »

On this date in 1934, Chinese Communists beheaded John and Betty Stam in the Anhui province town of Miaoshu. The Stams had settled as China Inland Mission... read more »

On December 7, 1982, a unit of army commandos entered the Guatemalan hamlet of Dos Erres.* There it authored one of the signature atrocities of the bloody... read more »

This is only the second Christmas season since the release of The Most Remarkable Woman in England, and I thought it an opportune time to revisit some... read more »

Our Criminal Past AHRC Network – third network event Date: 31 January 2014, 10am-4.30pm Venue: Galleries of Justice, Nottingham Free event but registration... read more »