What It Was Actually Like to Be a Victorian Hangman | Crime Stories for Sleep

Fall asleep to the story of England's executioners and the strange, unwritten trade they held, from Newgate in eighteen twenty-nine to the government's own table in eighteen ninety-two. It is a cold London morning, and John Foxen has passed. His post at Newgate stands empty, and the sheriffs turn to a young cobbler from Great Baddow, a man who has never been taught the work and never will be. Follow the trade slowly across sixty years, from a pie-seller near Newgate to a careful shoemaker in Lincoln, in calm Victorian true crime history made for sleep. #SleepyBritishCrime #BritishCrime #History #Sleep