Punishment
Description
This file contains items relating to criminal justice and punishment, and includes Derek Exley's article on the Halifax Gibbet, a crude form of guillotine, extracted from 'The Ridings' (Autumn 1964), pp. 21-22; and mounted newspaper and magazine cuttings from the 'Yorkshire Post', 'Country Life' and 'The Guardian', on the Glaisdale and Lealholm Association for the Prosecution of Felons and related societies; the use of market crosses as prison cells; village lock-ups and punishment cells; punishment devices including stocks and the scold's bridle; and standing gibbets. File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.
Metadata
| Identifier | mfc77w6d |
| IRN | 410659 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/FLF/5/8/2 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/mfc77w6d |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Judicial System |
| Date | 1964-1975 |
| Size and Medium | 1 file of magazine extracts, and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings. |