My favourite time of year #Cheltenhamlitfest off to a great start with a fascinating insight into polar exploration with @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social and @gilesmilton
Roz Edden
@rozedden.bsky.social
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PhD candidate University of Birmingham researching nineteenth century smallpox epidemic in Gloucester. Former nurse, now outreach teacher with hospital education.
![THE CONDEMNED PRISONER LEWIS GOUGH.
After having spared a similar disgrace for more than a quarter of a century, Gloucester is this (Saturday) morning to be the scene of a public execution. On the 20th April, 1839, William Davis was led pinioned to the scaffold over the lodge at the County Prison, and there met his death; he had murdered a man at Durdham Down, in order that he might possess himself of his victim's watch. Two years before that Charles Samuel Bartlett died on the same scaffold for the murder of a relative. And looking back at the records of a few...[rest of article not copied]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aswu6qrhzc3xzujqm33q24dd/bafkreibmfmbqfbtwynx424txrdi3ake25rmwofhhtrmwmh4zuihx4sdo6m)
