<strong>Tales from the Hanging Court</strong> draws on published accounts of Old Bailey trialsfrom 16741834 a rich seam of social political and legal history. T... » 

Tales from the Hanging Court draws on published accounts of Old Bailey trialsfrom 16741834 a rich seam of social political and legal history. Throughthese compelling true stories of theft murder rape and blackmail Hitchcockand Shoemaker capture the early history of the judicial system and thecolorful vibrant and sometimes scandalous world of preindustrial London. «