Newgate: London's Prototype Of Hell - Couverture souple

Halliday, Stephen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 075093896X ISBN 13 : 9780750938969

Editeur : The History Press, 2007

Synopsis

Of all London's prisons Newgate was the most notorious. From the twelfth to the twentieth century Newgate occupied the site of one of the ancient Roman gates of London. It was rebuilt five times before being demolished and replaced by the Old Bailey. Newgate housed, among many others, Daniel Defoe, Titus Oates and the Italian libertine Giacomo Casanova. Trials lasted about fifteen minutes and the execution prcessions from Newgate to Tyburn were so riotous that they were discontinued in favour of hangings outside Newgate itself. Stephen Halliday mixes contemporary acocunts, illustrations and biographical sketches to throw new light on the history of this building whose name has passed into the language in an ominous phrase: 'as black as Newgate's knocker'.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stephen Halliday is an expert on the history of London and the author of two outstanding works on social history, The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis, and Underground to Everywhere: London's Underground in the Life of the Capital.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The History Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 075093896X
• ISBN 13: 9780750938969
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible