A Place of Execution

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drawing to the place of execution on a hurdle. Additional barricades were erected to keep the expected large crowds of Great review! I sometimes think I should start reading thrillers, thinking they probably have a lot to teach me in the way of pacing, my achilles heel. Like the idea of the moody atmosphere–I love a good setting–but I can see that the constant smoking tic could be annoying.

has become the best of actor Robson Greer's omnipresent TV outings, has published most recently a Continue reading » On a specially prepared scaffold outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall, King Charles I, monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Wales was executed on 30 January 1649. Charles had quarrelled with the Parliament of England over his belief that he could govern his people by the divine right of kings, answerable to no man but only to the will of God. This prompted a series of events that ultimately led to the English Civil War, a conflict that saw Charles in a number of bloody battles with both the English and Scottish parliaments from 1642 until his defeat in 1645. This intriguing second novel by the author of Report for Murder again casts lesbian Scottish journalist Lindsay Gordon. Lindsay is living temporarily in Italy when fellow writer Alison Maxwell is Continue reading »

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There are many good things about this story — the description of the insular hamlet, the overall moral/ethical challenge, the fundamental conspiracy — but they could have been better presented, maybe by focusing on Ruth and her daughter and their actions from the start instead of on the police inquiry. This is only my opinion, and my opinion differs from that of many readers. Thanks John. I agree with you – there’s nothing interesting about a review which is pure praise. Always feels a bit disingenuous! July 1781 for conspiring against the life of the King. He was hanged for nearly half an hour before Take this lass, Alison. Even with the school bus, it probably takes her the best part of an hour to get to and from school every day. The county have been trying to get parents to agree to sending children like her as boarders Monday to Friday, to save them the journey. But places like Scardale, they just flat refuse. They don't see it as the county trying to help them. They think it's the authorities trying to take their children off them. There's no reasoning with them.'

at trial and all 22 received the death sentence on the 4th of August. Hardie and Baird were executed at Stirling on Friday, the 8th of September. After hanging yet women convicted of these offences were burnt at the stake until 1789. It is unclear why this was. Peers of the Realm who were convicted of High A small memorial plaque to William Wallace in Smithfield still attracts flower-laying Scottish patriots. Between 1555 and 1558, more than 50 Protestants were burnt at the stake for their beliefs during the reign of Queen Mary I (Bloody Mary), including clergymen, tailors and maids. Scardale is such a remote English village that the idea of corn goddess worship isn’t all that far-fetched. Alison, a thirteen-year-old girl, step-daughter of the local squire, has disappeared while walking her dog as she did every afternoon after school. Her mother, Ruth, has called the police, but when Detective Inspector George Bennett arrives from the city, Buxton, he gets nothing but a cold shoulder from the locals. There, Bennett finds Alison's torn clothes and evidence she was raped. Though Alison's body hasn't been found, Bennett concludes that she's dead.

Because we shot all the period scenes first, there was only half a day's overlap between the two casts. To help our “older” George and Tommy, we showed them rushes and brought them to set to meet the 1960s actors and study their mannerisms. Philip looks very convincing when he takes his glasses off in the same way that Lee does. They are completely believable. Alan, Rogers (2008). Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts. University of Massachusetts Press. p.78. ISBN 978-1558496330. sentenced to be hanged drawn and quartered for forging shillings. It is interesting that in the Ordinary’s

There was the sound of muffled conversation, then a clear masculine voice came on the line, the unmistakable southern accent brisk with authority. 'This is Philip Hawkin from the manor house in Scardale,' he said.

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During medieval times, Smithfield was one of the most important places in London, with jousting, summer fairs and, of course, the occasional execution. Famous dissenters and heretics who muttered their last breath at The Elms include William Wallace (of Braveheart fame, who was executed here in 1305) and Wat Tyler, one of the ringleaders in the Peasants Revolt of 1381. although the latter was only murdered here during a disagreement with the Lord Mayor of London and wasn’t actually executed.