The New Newgate Calendar

This building was designed by Everard James Blackburn who later went on to survey Melbourne and was founder of that city’s water supply. It was completed... read more »

A century ago today, an Indian Muslim named Kassim Ismail Mansoor was hanged by the British in Singapore as a traitor. The treason in question concerned... read more »

On May 30, 1806, Polly Barclay of Wilkes County, Georgia was “taken by a proper officer to a gallows previously to be erected in or near the town... read more »

A Moral Dilemma: whether to hang an innocent man?In the summer of 1848, Charles Burton picked up a razor and, first, cut the throat of his loving wife,... read more »

Wilkes-Barre Times, May 29, 1899. On this date in 1899, Adrian Braun was electrcuted at Sing Sing. Braun was a hulking German cigar-maker with a reputation... read more »

Gloucester County Prison held both male and female inmates from its opening in 1791 until the early 1900s, when it became and all-male establishment. In... read more »

On this date* in 1879, would-be regicide Alexander Soloviev was hanged Soloviev (English Wikipedia entry | Russian), a Narodnik revolutionary, was one... read more »

The population of the New Norfolk settlement had been reliant on river transport for supplies which came up the Derwent from Hobart. The river divided... read more »

Three perpetrators of Europe’s most spectacular terrorist attack were hanged on this date in 1925 in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia — after... read more »

England held its last-ever public execution on this date in 1868, and made it big game indeed: Fenian Michael Barrett, whose Clerkenwell Prison bombing... read more »

Addressing convict transportation –the key feature in the Carceral Archipelago project – implies multi-sited research, that is, research in... read more »

Inhabiting though we do a world which promises an unending war on it, we have a devil of a time merely defining the word “terrorism”. Efforts... read more »

Pawel Tuchlin, whose eight-year serial murder spree earned him the nickname “the Scorpion”, was hanged on this date in 1987 — the second-last... read more »

Businessman Mahafarid Amir Khosravi, once the wealthiest man in Iran, was hanged one year ago today for embezzling $2.6 billion. Khosravi rocketed up the... read more »

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Freedom-fighting Polish priest Stanislaw Brzoska was hanged in the marketplace of Sokolow Podlaski. A young firebrand who had already served time in a... read more »

On or about this date in 1929, Russian railway magnate Nikolaus (Nikolai) Karlovich von Meck was shot as a saboteur. Von Meck (Russian link) had the iron... read more »

If you’re coming here by way of The Marshall Project piece I wrote about psychologist and Cook County Jail administrator Winston Moore, welcome!... read more »

Minutes after midnight this date in 1912, a desexed preacher’s troubled concupiscence was at last abated by the Massachusetts mercy seat. Some demon... read more »

From the public-domain An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales From Its First Settlement, in January 1788, to August 1801 (pdf): April 1799 On... read more »

The block of land that these two cottages sit on was originally granted to John Goulder, a freed convict in 1839. Goulder had previously settled on the... read more »

This date in 1865 was the originally scheduled hanging of Indiana pro-slavery gadfly Lambdin P. Milligan — a sentence respited two days prior by... read more »

In this blog post I will be looking at Henry Tyrel's followers. I spoke about Henry in two of my previous posts and as you now know he caused murder and... read more »

(Via) A pitiless mother, that most unnaturally at one time murdered two of her own children, at Acton within six miles from London, upon Holy Thursday... read more »

Beware, trust not in the vanity of the world, and especially in the flattering of the court … if I had followed God’s word in deed as I did... read more »

The Government Gardens are a stunning formal garden where you can trace the steps of the ladies and officers who resided at Port Arthur and strolled along... read more »

All stories from issues of the Maryland Gazette, datelined Annapolis. (via) Though not explicit in any of these stories, the attack by Catholic servants... read more »

(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this date in 1945, in Le Mans, France, Pvt. George Green Jr. of the 998th Quartermaster... read more »

Algerian rebel Areski El Bachir was guillotined on this date in 1895 at Azazga with five of his companions. Our man emerged in the 1880s bedeviling the... read more »

The Reverend John Burrows B.A., the first Chaplain of Pontville, Van Diemans Land 1840-1876 was instrumental during his latter years in having the Church... read more »

Peter Stout hanged on this date at the courthouse of Monmouth, New Jersey for axing 14-year-old Thomas Williams to death when the youth, “the unhappy... read more »

osing his head on May 12, 1543 made Jakob Karrer von Gebweiler’s name in the annals of art and and medicine. The remains of the Basel felon —... read more »

Today is the centennial of Basanta Kumar Biswas‘s execution for the Delhi-Lahore conspiracy. Said conspiracy was a project several years running... read more »

Brough Hill Fair, Appleby Fair A railway company poster advertising excursions to the fair. Next month, we shall be visiting the annual Appleby Fair, which... read more »

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Women in Hobart, Tasmania recall their convict ancestors. http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-10/remembering-women-convicts-hundreds-don-bonnets-in-tribute/6458546 read more »

In the late Victorian and early Edwardian period, roughly ten years either side of the turn of the 20th century, there was a substantial social change... read more »

Nine men and one notorious women died at Tyburn on this date in 1726 at a more than usually raucous execution-day. “At the Place of Execution, Map... read more »

On this date in 1885, a vast concourse crowded into Morganfield, Ky. for the satisfaction of seeing the hated Mose Caton hang. Caton was a Union County,... read more »

In 1900, a Pimlico hairdresser and waiter sought a divorce from his wife, on the grounds of adultery. His wife seems to have been a busy woman –... read more »

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This lovely building was originally built by convicts for James Jackson in the early 1840's. Jackson had been transported to the colony in 1823 and ultimately... read more »

From late eighteenth century onwards newspapers were the premier medium through which ‘the vast majority of the… population gained most... 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 »

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A previous blog post outlined how crime records are among the read more »

Italian mercenary Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola was beheaded on this date in 1432. The successful condottiero was defined by a mixture of battlefield... read more »

J C Bucknill (after Wikimedia Commons)This latest post has been prompted by a request to talk on the subject of this blog...Without doubt, one of the key... read more »

It might have been this date in 1685* that the famously speedy highwayman John Nevison (or William Nevison) was hauled to York’s gallows on the Knavesmire... read more »

  In a previous blog, I wrote on the theme of the politics of comparison, of the connected history of circulation and mobility that underpins the... read more »