Bonnie and Clyde Bloody Adventure Trail

 

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The Execution Sites of London

 

Highwayman John Austin is the last man to be publicly hanged at London’s Tyburn gallows. The hanging marked the end of Tyburn, a village then in the county of Middlesex

 

Where Are London’s Execution Sites?

 

which was the site of executions for nearly 600 years.  Austin was sentenced to death for the murder of labourer John Spicer from Kent. The Recorder of London, James Adair, described it as a “robbery with violence” that involved “cutting and wounding Spicer in a cruel manner.”

 

 

There have been many prisons in London, the most famous one being the Tower of London

 

 

Law And Disorder

Wacky:  A collection of wacky crimes, criminals, lawyers, judges, and court cases describes the case of the most incompetent bank robbers and much more

 

Meet the Judge Who Went Viral For His Creative Punishments

 

 

 

 

Art & Exhibitions

and this one is all over the board but it was so all inclusive

 

Nelson Mandela voting in 1994
Robben Island Museum
So many times over so many thousands of

for  years the punshiment , imprisonment and all too often death is for a religious concept or a other beliefs.   What one cherishes the next adhores and whoever holds the power decides on what belief stands and what suffers—the possibilities are endless and the methods of death from starving in a concetration camp to being burned at the stake in a New England village, all  are shaped by the beliefs, prejudices based on  some religious or political leaning and/or prejudice or so many things in between.  And while they are preversions of the crime and punishment reasonings, and normal steps and procedures that were put in place to save us from exactly what these preversions actually carry out.  

 

The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, formerly known as the Museum of Witchcraft, is a museum dedicated to European witchcraft and magic located in the village of Boscastle in Cornwall, south-west England.

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If you go back to mid 2016—beginning last of May in this Blog—and all of June–I spent an entire month by myself at Tintagel and visited Boscastle as well as many other towns in this out of the way but very historical and magical—-area of Cornwall and wrote it all up along with pictures for a presentation on this area that you might never have experienced before.

 

The Dark History of Medieval Witches

 

 

 

Behind the scenes of PEM’s new Salem Witch Trials Walk

 

 

20 Real Torture Dungeons You’ll (Not) Want To Visit

 

And over the years and to this day many who are  incarcerated are also tortured

 

Exploring a Medieval Torture Chamber (Nurnberg Germany) 14th century Medieval Dungeon

Justice with Michael Sandel – BBC: Justice: Torture and human dignity

 

 

Visit the Site of the Biggest Witch Trial in History

 

What is torture?

 

                Medievel Torture Museum

Chicago

St. Augustine

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Marshalsea Prison

There is at least one debtor’s prision included in this batch:

45+ FANTASTICALLY CREEPY PRISON MUSEUMS AROUND THE WORLD THAT WILL TAKE YOU ABACK

 

 

Debtor’s prison

Since the 14th century, debtors could end up in prison for non-payment of debts. Insolvent debtors who owed less than £100, and who were not traders, could be imprisoned indefinitely until the debt was repaid to creditors.

 

 

What happened to the Charles Dickens theme park in Medway

 

Prison could be avoided by declaring bankruptcy, but only if you were a merchant or trader. Even so, the costs were prohibitive: £10, which was equivalent to 10 to 20 per cent of the average annual income for the common worker in the mid-1800s.

 

Charles Dickens Museum London

In many cases, it was hoped that the debtors’ families and friends would repay the debt. Generally, conditions in prison depended on your standing in society. The warden of the prison would charge for accommodation – prisons were state-owned and subject to regulation, but were operated for private profit. If you could afford it, accommodation allowed access to a bar and shop, and even the pleasure of being allowed out during the day, with the potential to earn money to repay your indebtedness.                                                            In debt and incarcerated: the tyranny of debtors’ prisons

 

     

MUSEUM OF Proverty

(6 October 2017) – United Nations human rights experts* are calling for urgent action to end the disproportionate impact of the death penalty on people from poorer communities. They say imposing the death penalty as a result of discrimination constitutes an arbitrary killing and Governments must not stand idly by. Their comments come in a joint statement marking World Day Against the Death Penalty on Tuesday 10 October:

Young UN

 

Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past) Paperback – December 12, 2005

 

Poverty Encounter

 

 

Charles Dickens In London: 1812-1870 – Livestream History Tour with Simon Whitehouse

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the slums of Victorian London

 

The 8 worst slums of Victorian London a walk with London Walks

 

 

 

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 Dark, fetid, dangerous. Where bodies crowd into poorly built tenements, or snatch a few hours of sleep in a doss house. Where open sewers trail through the slums, overflowing with bucket after bucket of slops. Where poverty and disease are rife and where infant mortality is shockingly high. Welcome to the slums of Victorian London in 19th century Britain.

                                               Life in 19th-century slums: Victorian London’s homes from hell

 

 

About the Charles Dickens Museum, London

 

 

 

Vice

Story Behind the Building-The House of the Rising Sun

 

#1 Prostitution

It depends how you define it. Humans have exchanged money and goods for sex for thousands of years, and indeed it seems that any society that begins to develop material wealth soon develops some form of prostitution. The Bible depicts many Israelites as having large numbers of concubines, who could be viewed either as prostitutes or as wives of a lesser status. According to 1 Kings 11:3, King Solomon had “700 wives … and 300 concubines.” In ancient Rome, it seems you could hand over a token at a brothel in return for a specific sexual favor. However, the common image of prostitutes as a special group of outcasts walking the streets may not have arisen until the Victorian era, when health officials blamed them for the spread of venereal diseases. In the 21^st century, prostitution occurs across cultures and political systems, even operating in socialist societies.

Is Prostitution Really the World’s Oldest Profession?

 

 

Amsterdam Red Light District Tours Trip Adviser

 

 

Gambling

 

Museum Exhibits Spotlight Gambling, Hollywood, King Tut

 

European history is riddled with edicts, decrees, and encyclicals banning and condemning gambling, which indirectly testify to its popularity in all strata of society. Organized gambling on a larger scale and sanctioned by governments and other authorities in order to raise money began in the 15th century with lotteries—and centuries earlier in China with keno. With the advent of legal gambling houses in the 17th century, mathematicians began to take a serious interest in games with randomizing equipment (such as dice and cards), out of which grew the field of probability theory.

History

 

Museum of Gaming History’s new exhibit features cheating devices

 

 

So that’s it for today my dears—-Next Weekend we’ll do My bits and pieces—wandering about small bits of info that may be of interest and then giving you more info on it as to were to find and  hopefully get off the couch and go see and enjoy

Then the next week after that will do a theme one like today’s except maybe a bit more positive.

 

 

And a short time after that I’m leaving for the England.  Of course I will do my trip and all manner of interesting things I see and pictures of same—-so get ready for it  I am.

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