Death Recorded: Capital Punishment and the Press in Northampton, 1780–1834 Midland History Prize Proxime Accessit 2007

Dyndor, Zoe

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“…187–193) cite several examples on the periphery of local authorities being unable to appoint an executioner or even find workmen willing to construct gallows; was this state of affairs widespread across the periphery? It may also be possible to discern evidence of attitudes on the periphery towards capital punishment in newspaper execution reportage (see Dyndor, ) …”

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New directions in the historiography of the administration of the Bloody Code

Walliss

2018

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In this article, I will review the recent historiography of the administration of the so‐called Bloody Code of the long eighteenth century. The 1970s and 1980s witnessed a debate among Marxist historians and others over the extent to which the Bloody Code operated as a tool of the ruling elite to protect property interests. In recent years, however, several historians have begun to explore a different series of questions in regard to the Bloody Code. One theme that unites the current work is an emphasis on the variability of the Bloody Code. In the article, I discuss three areas of variability highlighted by this work: time, geography, and judicial decision‐making.

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New directions in the historiography of the administration of the Bloody Code

Walliss

2018

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“…White reassesses this view, suggesting a more socially‐diverse audience than has been imagined hitherto. Despite an increase in research on reporting crime in the press, few studies exist of execution reports from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and Dyndor argues that newspapers stressed the efficacy of the execution process in order to project an image of infallibility upon the criminal justice system. Dodsworth, meanwhile, profiles the advocates of a police force in the eighteenth century in the context of prevailing ideas about moral reformation, while Gray explores the world of summary justice in the City of London through the records of the Guildhall and Mansion House justicing rooms, which were accessible to more people than were the Assizes and Quarter Sessions.…”

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