Tyburn: London's Fatal Tree by David Brandon, Alan Brooke

Tyburn: London's Fatal Tree

David Brandon, Alan Brooke

276 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative slow-paced
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Tyburn, close to present-day Marble Arch, is synonymous with public hanging--over 50,000 people died there between the twelfth century and 1783. They include Perkin Warbeck, imposter and pretender to the English throne; Elizabeth Barton, the 'Maid...

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