Bob Dylan once famously sang that 'The Times they are a Changing'. This felt bizarrely prescient this week as I spent most of my time furiously trawling through The Times archive before my free 30 day trial expires and saw the constantly shifting size and face of the paper over 100 years. Having spent the …
Author: paddyxavier
My name is Dr. Patrick Low. I received my PhD in December 2019 for a thesis on capital punishment and post-mortem punishments in the North-East of England between 1752-1878. I am particularly interested in the reporting of executions in the press, postdeath practices on the body of the executed, the execution crowd and burial procedures. I have appeared on a number of episodes of BBC's Murder, Mystery and My Family and am available for other projects relating to my studies. I also created the website www.criminalcorpses.com for a brilliant Leicester University & Wellcome Trust Project. I am not quite as pretentious as my photo suggests. patrickxavierlow@gmail.com
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