LONDON RADICAL HISTORIES

Tag: executions

Feb 23

Today in London insurrectionary history, 1820: Cato Street conspirators arrested, plotting to assassinate the cabinet & launch revolution
Jun 28

Today in London legal history, 1780: Charles Kent, Laetitia Holland and John Gray tried for the burning and looting of Lord Chief Justice Mansfield’s House.
Apr 29

Today in London radical history, 1649: executed mutineer Robert Lockyer’s funeral becomes a Leveller demonstration
Mar 18

Today in London’s criminal history: renowned cutpurse Jenny Diver hung, 1741.
Feb 22

Today in London judicial history, 1864: five mutineers from the ship Flowery Land publicly hanged, outside Newgate Prison.
Feb 4

Today in London religious history: John Rogers burned at Smithfield for heresy, 1555.
Sep 12

Today in London rebel history: Charles Moor hanged for breaking out of workhouse and robbing rich man’s house, 1707.
Apr 6

Today in London rebel history: William FitzOsbert, or Longbeard, executed,1196, after popular disturbances.
Mar 28

Today in London’s multi-faith history: Cuthbert Simpson burned at Smithfield, 1558
Mar 7

Today in gay history: Thomas White & John Hepburn hanged in Newgate for ‘buggery’, 1811.

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