12.03.2017 - By Professor Rab Houston
This extract accompanies Podcast 21 - Living With Madness 2: An Insane Murderer
IMAGE: Wellcome Library, London, L0040923. John Totterdale throwing his wife down stairs. Copperplate, 18th Century. From: The new and complete Newgate calendar; or, villany displayed in all its branches ... Containing ... narratives ... of the various executions and other exemplary punishments ... in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, from the year 1700 to the present time, vol. 2, By: William Jackson (London: Alexander Hogg, 1795), opposite p. 275. Collection: Rare Books, EPB 30093/B. Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Voice Credit: Sebastian Bridges