Consistently Eccentric History

The Career of William Calcraft - It's money for old rope really.


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A perfect example of life beginning at thirty William Calcraft was a man who only realised what he wanted to do with his life at the age of 29. And that thing was hanging other people on behalf of the British Crown.


Despite starting his third decade he still managed to spend 45 years sending unfortunate souls on a short drop to meet their maker, negotiating the transition from Georgian to Victorian Britain and the inexorable decline in support for capital punishment by becoming ever more bitter and misanthropic.


Guest Hosts: Emma Heathcote and Ang from Dissecting Medical History.

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