MARC record from Internet Archive

LEADER: 02986cam 22004694a 4500
001 ocn751834831
003 OCoLC
005 20220118223213.0
008 110829s2011 enka b 000 0 eng d
040 $aUKMGB$beng$cUKMGB$dCDX$dYDXCP$dBWK$dNDD$dLGG$dOCLCF$dOCLCQ$dOCLCO$dOCLCQ$dNZAUC$dUKMGB$dOCLCA$dOCLCO
015 $aGBB1A2238$2bnb
016 7 $a015879136$2Uk
020 $a9780752464077$q(pbk.)
020 $a0752464078$q(pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)751834831
043 $ae-uk---
050 4 $aHV8699.G8$bW433 2011
082 04 $a364.660941$223
100 1 $aWebb, Simon,$d1954-
245 10 $aExecution :$ba history of capital punishment in Britain /$cSimon Webb.
260 $aStroud :$bHistory Press,$c2011.
300 $a158 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (page 159).
505 0 $aIntroduction -- 1. Beheading by sword, axe and rope -- 2. The rise of hanging -- 3. Mechanical decapitation: a British invention -- 4. Shot at dawn: the British firing squad at work -- 5. Burning at the stake -- 6. The bloody code: thye heyday of British hanging -- 7. Drawing and quartering: variations on the theme of hanging -- 8. The nineteenth century: the birth of modern hanging -- 9. Lesser known methods of British execution: crushing, breaking and boiling to death -- 10. Unofficial death sentences: flogging and the pillory -- 11. The twentieth century: the decline of the death penalty in Britain -- 12. The end of capital punishment in Britain -- 13. A gallery of British executioners.
520 $a"Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods have been used in this country; ranging from burning, beheading and shooting to crushing and boiling to death. [This book] explores these types of execution in detail. Readers may be surprised to learn that a means of mechanical decapitation, the Halifax Gibbet, was being used in England five hundred years before the guillotine was invented. Boiling to death was a prescribed means of execution in this country in the Tudor period. From the public death by disembowelling of traitors, to the burning of women for petit treason, this book examines some of the most gruesome passages of British history"--Back cover.
650 0 $aCapital punishment$zGreat Britain.
650 7 $aCapital punishment.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00846392
651 7 $aGreat Britain.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204623
938 $aCoutts Information Services$bCOUT$n17699514
938 $aYBP Library Services$bYANK$n6826606
029 1 $aAU@$b000048518377
029 1 $aAU@$b000049939611
029 1 $aAU@$b000055109075
029 1 $aNZ1$b13958881
029 1 $aUKDOR$b125470703
029 1 $aUNITY$b125470703
029 1 $aUKMGB$b015879136
994 $aZ0$bP4A
948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN P4A - 65 OTHER HOLDINGS