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The current that kills
In the 19th century, electricity held life in the balance, with the power to execute – or reanimate.
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Gay men in London, from persecution to Pride
Ben Gazur’s whistle-stop tour of the history of gay men in London takes us from 14th-century persecution to modern Pride events.
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A body apart from the head
We look back at the importance of the head, from how it’s influenced our language to the bold political statement of having it removed.
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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Executions of Huguenots after the Huguenot conspiracy of Amboise in 1560: some conspirators are hung by the neck from a tower, others are beheaded. Woodcut by J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.
Perrissin, J. (Jean), 1536?-1611?Date: [1570?]Reference: 42599iPart of: Quarante tableaux, ou Histoires diverses qui sont mémorables touchant les guerres, massacres, et troubles advenus en France en ces dernières années. Le tout recueilly selon le témoignage de ceux qui ont esté en personne, & qui les ont veues, lesquels sont pourtraits à la vérité.- Ephemera
An account of the trial, crimes, and execution of Wilkinson & Hetherington : two notorious highwaymen who were hanged at Morpeth, on Monday, Sept. 10, 1821, for various highway robberies committed in the neighbourhood of Newcastle.
Date: 1821- Ephemera
Lamentation of Franz Muller.
Date: [1864]- Ephemera
An account of a most barbarous and unparalleled MURDER of Ann Smith, a ballad singer, by a wretch named Samuel Thorley, a butcher's assistant, at Congleton, Cheshire, and who actually eat [sic] part of the flesh of his unfortunate victim.
Date: [1820?]- Ephemera
A copy of verses : written upon the unfortunate Eliza Anthony, suspected of having been murdered.
Date: [1823?]