For their second-year Working with the Past project, UoP history students Daniel Rickler and Sebastian Burgess chose to research the history of crime and punishment in Hampshire. In contemporary Britain, we have moved beyond the need to deter crime through humiliation, physical punishment and execution. But as we look to Hampshire from the 1600s onwards, we see a brutal and bloody history including, in Portsmouth in 1782, the last person to be hung, drawn and quartered for treason. Daniel and Sebastian examined both the wider policies of government and individual cases alongside the ritualistic nature of these punishments, to show how unnecessary they were and how far we’ve evolved. Both […]