Items taken from Bygone Punishments (1931) (results page 1)

Front cover, Bygone PunishmentsBygone Punishments (1931)

A plain dark blue book cover. But people don’t often scan the plain covers, so here it is.

Keywords: colour, book covers

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Added: 2006-08-21

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Anglo-Saxon PunishmentsBygone Punishments (1931)

“Stocks were used, at an early period, as a means of punishing breakers of the law. The precise date when they were first emplyed in this country is not known, but we may infer from early mediaeval il [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments, bare feet, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-08

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Taunting Persons in the Stocks.Bygone Punishments (1931)

“The “Cambridge Trinity College Psalter”—an illuminated manuscript—presents some curious illustrations of the manners of the earlier half of the twelth century. We give a reproduction of one of its q [...]

Keywords: punishments, people, bare feet, stocks, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-08

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Waltham Abbey Whipping-Posts and Stocks.Bygone Punishments (1931)

The Anglo-Saxons whipped prisoners with a whip of three cords, knotted at the end. It was not an uncommon practice for mistresses to whip, or have their servants whipped, to death. William of Malmesbu [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments, greyscale

Places shown: Waltham; Essex; England

Added: 2006-01-08

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Stocks and Whipping Post, AldburyBygone Punishments (1931)

Stocks and whiping-post, Aldbury, from a photo by A. Whitford Anderson, Esq., Watford. A half-timbered house, probably Tudor, beside a pond; in the foreground are wooden stocks, with the somewhat unev [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments, houses, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Aldbury; Hertfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-30

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