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On August 31, 1767, Thomas Nicholson hung in chains at Carleton for murdering his godfather Thomas Parker — a sort of god-filicide. And we would...
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The Old Watch House site was first used as a convict barracks and gaol. The original building was erected in about 1820, of brick, with a strong stockade....
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The reader can peruse only the first page of the two-page Edinburgh gallows broadside that comprises this post here; the full pamphlet appears to be available...
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On this date 1354, the Provencal mercenary Montreal d’Albarno was beheaded in Rome by order of the tribune Cola di Rienzi. Known locally as Fra Moriale...
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Last year I came across a rare archival find: multiple editions of a 19th century prison newspaper covertly produced by Russian inmates between 1890 and...
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Lancashire priest Edmund Arrowsmith was martyred on this date in 1628. Actually named Bryan by his parents, Arrowsmith took the name of an uncle while...
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Port Arthurs first hospital was a wooden building built in the 1830’s just below the site of the existing ruin. The existing hospital was built between...
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On this date in 1870, a spy of the Franco-Prussian War was shot in Paris. Barely a month old at this point, the Franco-Prussian War was a fast-unfolding...
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In a drama of curious names, Albany, New York hanged a gentleman named Whiting Sweeting on this date in 1791. He had slain Darius Quimby in the first recorded...
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This date’s post arrives via Rictor Norton‘s rich Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England sourcebook. We have cited this page before, notably...
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My PhD research focuses on the prosecution of fraud at the Old Bailey from 1760 to 1820. Having previously worked for a number of prosecuting agencies,...
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Ancien regime minister Arnaud de La Porte was guillotined on this date in 1792* by the new order. Stock of a long line of Versailles courtiers, de La Porte...
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A well preserved example of a typical Gothic Revival style church built in 1871. The Rev Joseph Mayson was the first rector of Swansea. He arrived in 1839...
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For this date’s post we welcome back to Executed Today the prolific pen of Alexandre Dumas, here working on the “fictional” side of his...
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L0040942 Ancient herbalists and scholars of medicinal lore (Galen, Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org ...
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On this date in 1972, Argentina’s junta authored the extrajudicial execution of 16 political prisoners after a jailbreak attempt. Remembered as the...
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This morning, Iraq hanged 36 men in Nasiriyah prison for a 2014 sectarian massacre perpetrated by the emerging Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL). After months’...
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This hotel was first licensed in 1859 and was originally called ”Todd’s Hotel” in honor of its first publican, Christopher James Todd....
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By Michaela Ann Cameron Originally published on The Dictionary of Sydney (2015) Brislington, Parramatta’s oldest existing dwelling house, was built...
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By Michaela Ann Cameron Originally published on The Dictionary of Sydney (2015) The Colonial Hospital was Parramatta’s third and final hospital dedicated...
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Dorcas Carr and her colleagues introduced me to the women defined as prostitutes in Victorian Swansea. She will feature in one of the dramatised accounts...
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London Times, Aug. 21, 1983:
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The project team will be out in force at this year’s Digital Humanities Congress in Sheffield, part of an excellent programme of papers including...
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We’re delighted to be involved with Financial Crime Symposium: past lessons, contemporary challenges, and future solutions which is being...
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(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this day in 1774, convicted robber Patrick Madan and two other men went to...
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‘Two Gentlemen Regarding the Gibbets with Satisfaction’, from The Newgate Calendar. (www.exclassics.com) In the year 1776, Cheltenham was a...
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On this date in 2013, three young men were hanged in three different public locations around the Iranian city of Karaj. Photos of at least one of the executions...
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On this date in 1827, a “Carnival of Death” in Richmond saw the hanging of three Spanish pirates who had but recently perpetrated an infamous...
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Stephenville was the former home of Alfred Stephen, Solicitor General for Tasmania (later Chief Justice of NSW), in 1825. A two storey stucco building...
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By Michaela Ann Cameron Originally published on the Dictionary of Sydney (2015) The General Hospital is the name given to Parramatta’s first two...
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August 16 is a day of reverence in France for the execution on that date in 1944 — just days ahead of the allied liberation of Paris — of 35...
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This date in 1741 saw the hanging of Juan de la Silva for the slave plot to torch New York. This second-last execution in that bloody affair takes us to...
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February 1837 They find Sarah Rands in the taproom at the Sir Samuel Hood, laughing and drinking with a group of girls, teasing their jovial admirers....
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The ‘rescue’ of women defined as prostitutes will be one of the themes in my book. Here are some stories about it in a Swansea context. Prostitution...
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Milton Hall is an excellent example of a Doric Temple style building favored by the Independents (Congregationalists) who like the Baptists traditionally...
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London Times, Aug. 26, 1878. On this date in 1878,* Odessa nihilist Ivan Kovalsky was shot by directive of a military tribunal. A “propaganda of...
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August 13 is marked as Patriots’ Day in the Indian state of Manipur for the execution on that date in 1891 of Prince Bir Tikendrajit. The Kingdom...
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On this date in 1806, 63-year-old Josiah Burnham hanged for murder in New Hampshire. Eight days before Christmas in 1805, Burnham, a noted local churl...
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Regular users may already be aware that following a recent security incident affecting the servers on which the websites are hosted, Old Bailey...
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From the Philadelphia Inquirerer, Aug. 12, 1869: Special Despatch to the Inquirer. STROUDSBURG, Pa., Aug. 11, 1869. — Charles Orme, one of the murderers...
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Tents accommodated the 63rd Regiment when it arrived at Port Arthur in September 1830. More permanent accommodation was constructed soon after with a timber...
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On this date in 1916, Italian nationalist and sailor Nazario Sauro was hanged by an Austro-Hungarian military court in Pula, Croatia. Born in the Habsburg-controlled...
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The Roman martyrology distinguishes August 9 as the feast date of several minor ancient saints of questionable veracity purportedly martyred by the persecutions...
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Did England ever have a “tradition” allowing lighter punishments for men who killed unfaithful wives? Posted by Krista Kesselring; 8...
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Italy today might be the capital of the anti-capital punishment movement; it’s turned the Roman Colosseum — whose thirsty sands once drank...
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Mantua, August 10 A Dangerous Conspiracy was happily discovered here; the Author of it M. Nicholas Bighelini, took a Plan of the weakest Parts of this...
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Please join us on 5 September 2016.
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A very unusual Romanesque church built in 1839-41 to a design of convict architect James Blackburn from very finely tooled local white freestone. Few travelers...
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From the Leeds Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser, Aug. 10, 1844; NOTTINGHAM, AUGUST 7. — This morning (Wednesday) being the day fixed for...
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Vietnam on this date in 2013 made its first-ever use of lethal injection for the execution of Nguyen Anh Tuan. Anh Tuan robbed and murdered a woman in...
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