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I love this kind of historical information. It's difficult (to me) to empathise with past historical events when we (I) have no knowledge of those people and ho
by hvm 11y ago
I love this kind of historical information. It's difficult (to me) to empathise with past historical events when we (I) have no knowledge of those people and how they lived.
Reading about their daily struggles gives events from that time a whole new image.
BTW, I found extremely interesting that they gave the condemned an interview which they then wrote down ( http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=OA17160127 http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=OA17160127 ).
How many average people from that time have the luxury of their lives being recorded for future people to see? How many of us have that today?
- notahacker 11y agoThe cynic in me questions the authenticity of the accounts, given that the chaplain responsible for collecting them was part of the penal apparatus and derived significant income from selling the accounts to the execution-watching public as instructive morality tales. Even accounting for the religiosity of the condemned, they seem remarkably keen to confess to long histories of criminal behaviour and repent of their sins rather than question the system that had condemned them.