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Features stories of criminals hanged at York from the middle of the eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century. The condemned featured in this work range from coiners and forgers to murderers, thieves and highwaymen, the most infamous being Dick Turpin, who was hanged on York's Knavesmire in 1739 for horse-stealing.
22nd February, 2017 in History, True Crime
Georgian highwayman Dick Turpin, like America’s Jessie James or Australia’s Ned Kelly, lives on in our collective imagination more as a myth than as a man. Nearly everything we know about him – or think we know about him – is false. He didn’t make a midnight ride to York, his fai…
