LGBT men hanged in London – in 1743
In 1743 two LGBT men were hanged in London for the crime of sodomy and as Tony McMahon discovers, being outwardly gay was a very dangerous business
October 10, 2014
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Richard Rose – London chef boiled!
Richard Rose was a chef boiled to death in Tudor England for trying to poison his master Bishop John Fisher as Tony McMahon discovers
Dryden funeral disrupted by thugs
The funeral of John Dryden was turned into a farce when aristocratic thugs stole his coffin as Tony McMahon investigates a London scandal
Teenage Londoner whose dress caught on fire!
The tragic story of an 18th century teenager Isabella Courtenay whose expansive dress caught on fire and soon turned her into a human fireball