The Executions Of Old London

Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours In the days before social media, television or cinema, public executions were a popular source of entertainment in London. Ed Maggs, fourth generation proprietor of Maggs Bros, booksellers of 48 Bedford Sq, sent me this fine selection of Execution Broadsides that he came across recently. (Click on the image to enlarge and read the text) Execution Broadside of Henry Horler for the murder of his wife Ann Horler on 17th November 1852, at Sun St, Bishopsgate. Ann Horler’s mother, Ann Rogers, came to take her daughter away from her husband Henry Horler on the night before the murder was discovered. She had been told that her daughter had been abused by her husband. Henry Horler insisted his wife would not go with her mother that night, but Mrs Rogers should return in the morning for her. The next morning Ann Horler was found dead. (Click on the image to enlarge and read the text) Execution broadside of John Wiggins at Newgate, 15th October…