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The story of James and John - the last two men to be hanged for homosexuality
with 56 sent to the gallows. The last of those, James Pratt and John Smith, were hanged at the infamous Newgate prison in November of that year. Sir Chris Bryant, the long-serving Labour MP who ...
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Old Bailey hauntings: Victorian baby killer, ghostly barrister and spectral cat
In 1836, he wrote an evocative first-hand account of Newgate Prison with its “heavy oaken ... leading to a dead end – and the ...