Just the Facts: Jonathan Wild

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History can scarcely furnish an instance of such complicated villainy as was shown in the character of Jonathan Wild. I promised in one of my ‘Just the Facts’ posts last year that I would return to the blood-soaked pages of … Continue reading →

Just the facts: The Newgate Calendar

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The Ordinary of Newgate was the clergyman responsible for taking the final confessions of condemned criminals at Newgate prison on London. Prisoners were held at Newgate before being publicly hanged at Tyburn (at the site of what is now Marble … Continue reading →