Yorkshire Hangmen
The history and mythology of hangmen in Yorkshire—an account of crime and punishment in England from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century.
From the eighteenth century, York was one of the places employing its own hangmen, copying London and Newgate, even to the use of the word Tyburn to define it''s Knavesmire gallows, also known as the ''three-legged mare''. That was where highwayman Di...
The history and mythology of hangmen in Yorkshire—an account of crime and punishment in England from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century.
From the eighteenth century, York was one of the places employing its own hangmen, copying London and Newgate, even to the use of the word Tyburn to define it''s Knavesmire gallows, also known as the ''three-legged mare''. That was where highwayman Di...
