For the first time online here are high quality images of Samuel & Nathaniel Buck's complete sequence of five views of London as...

This is the handwritten Newgate Prison execution journal of the "Ordinary", or Chaplain, of Newgate, the Rev. Horace Salusbury Cotton. Cotton kept his macabre log throughout his tenure at Newgate, even though he was strictly forbidden from doing so. Between 1814 and 1839 he noted not only the names and crimes of those being executed along with the date of their execution but also his personal observations on any execution that he found particularly interesting. His journal al

This little book is unique. There is only one copy, it is handwritten, it has never been published in print or on-line. It contains a...