The Execution of Benjamin Candler, Valet to the Duke of Newcastle, 1823.
January 15, 2016
On Friday 21 March 1823, three men – a half-pay army lieutenant named William Arden; John Doughty, a joiner, of Grantham, and Benjamin Candler, valet to the 4th Duke of Newcastle at Clumber Park – were hanged at Lincoln for sodomy or, as the handbill produced to commemorate the event said, ‘for committing Horrid Crimes’. …
The Russian Home Front In War And Revolution, 1914-22
January 10, 2016
My new book, Russia’s Home Front in War and Revolution, 1914-22, edited with Liudmila G. Novikova and Aaron B. Retish, presents a series of essays from leading international scholars that expand our understanding of the Russian Revolution through the detailed study of specific localities, Sarah Badcock writes. Answering the important question of how locality affected …
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