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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 16:29:19 -0700 Reply-To: Legal History discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: Legal History discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> From: Elizabeth Brandt <ebrandt@raven.csrv.uidaho.edu> Subject: Gallows speeches (fwd)
H- H-Law'ers: I hope I'm not submitting this message for the second time. If so pleas excuse the inconvenience
Liz Brandt
Guest Moderator
I am trying to find sources of reported speeches given by the condemned at public executions in Great Britain in the last three hundred years. I would appreciate any suggestions anyone might have.
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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 08:00:11 -0700 Reply-To: Legal History discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: Legal History discussion list <H-LAW@UICVM.BITNET> From: Elizabeth Brandt <ebrandt@raven.csrv.uidaho.edu> Subject: Re: Gallows speeches (fwd)
The Special Collections Department of the Harvard Law School Library has a collection of nearly three hundred eighteenth and nineteenth century English crime broadsides. These graphically describe murders and other sensational crimes of the period; most contain accounts of the executions and dying words of the accused. Since most of the broadsides were printed by local printers for sale to the throngs of spectators who attended the executions of criminals, they are quite ephemeral; the collection contaings many examples for which no other copies are recorded.
For further information, please contact
David Warrington
Librarian for Special Collections
Harvard Law School Library
warringt@hulaw1.harvard.edu