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James Anthony Sharpe, FRHS (9 October 1946 – 13 February 2024) was an English social historian who was a professor emeritus of early modern history at the University of York. He was a specialist in witchcraft, and crime and punishment, in early modern England. [1]
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To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland. The convicted traitor was fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn behind a horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the ...
This period saw the introduction of new laws focused on property defence, which some viewed as class suppression. As convictions for capital crimes increased, penal transportation with indentured servitude became a more common punishment. In 1785, Australia was deemed suitable for transporting convicts, and over one-third of all criminals ...
The stocks were employed by civil and military authorities from medieval to early modern times including Colonial America. Public punishment in the stocks was a common occurrence from around 1500 until at least 1748. [4]
Policing and punishment in nineteenth century Britain (2015). Churchill, David. Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City (Oxford UP, 2018) Emsley, Clive. Crime and society in England: 1750–1900 (2013). Emsley, Clive. "Crime in 19th Century Britain." History Today 38 (1988): 40+ Emsley, Clive.
[40] [page needed] In early modern England, the Buggery Act 1533 stipulated hanging as punishment for "buggery". James Pratt and John Smith were the last two Englishmen to be executed for sodomy in 1835. [41] In 1636 the laws of Puritan governed Plymouth Colony included a sentence of death for sodomy and buggery. [42]
Women in Plymouth, England, parting from their lovers who are about to be transported to Botany Bay, 1792. Penal transportation (or simply transportation) was the relocation of convicted criminals, or other persons regarded as undesirable, to a distant place, often a colony, for a specified term; later, specifically established penal colonies became their destination.