Friday, 3 May 2024

Harrogate

 I wrote a history of the English spa town of Harrogate 

Tuesday, 30 April 2024

Monday, 29 April 2024

Penzance

 I wrote a history of the Cornish town of Penzance  

Mary Timney

On 29 April 1862, Mary Timney became the last woman to be hanged in public in Scotland. She was hanged in Dumfries.

Saturday, 27 April 2024

Last woman to be guillotined

 Today’s useless info: In 1949 Germaine Leloy-Godefroy became the last French woman to be guillotined. (She was having an affair and she killed her husband with an axe while he was asleep).

Friday, 26 April 2024