Dr Kat and the Shaming Punishments of Medieval and Early Modern England

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Today's video was inspired by a lovely discussion I got to have in my comments section with the lovely Anisha. As promised, I'm going to look at the stocks, pillory and other shaming punishments... • I hope you enjoy this video and find it interesting! • Please subscribe and click the bell icon to be updated about new videos. • Also, if you want to get in touch, please comment down below or find me on social media: • Instagram: / katrina.marchant • Twitter: / kat_marchant • Email: [email protected] • Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, Greenery [ • Greenery – Silent Partner (No Copyrig... ] • Images: • Line art drawing of a person in the stocks by Pearson Scott Foresman. Image from Wikimedia Commons. • Print showing the 17th-century perjurer Titus Oates in a pillory, from Robert Chambers' Book of Days, 1st edition. Image from Wikimedia Commons. • Line engraving depicting Daniel Defoe in the pillory by John Carr (or James Charles) Armytage, after Eyre Crowe (1862). Held by the National Portrait Gallery. • The Stocks Whipping Post at Ninfield Located at the junction of Church Lane and the High Street, these stocks bear an inscription: Ninfield Stocks and Whipping Post - A Rare Use of Sussex Iron Reputedly made at Ashburnham in the 17th Century . The stocks are Grade II listed. Image from Wikimedia Commons. • Sixteenth-century woodcut showing a vagrant being whipped through the streets of London. Image in the public domain. • “M” or “W” antique branding iron. Listed at https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedi... • Hold-fast and “M” brand, held at Lancaster Castle. Image from http://www.lancastercastle.com/histor... • Anonymous portrait of Benjamin Jonson, after Abraham van Blyenberch (probably early 19th century (after a circa 1617 original)). Held by the National Portrait Gallery. • Anonymous image showing The Manner of Execution at Tyburn (17th century). Image from Wikimedia Commons. • Scold's bridle of iron. From the original in the Tower of London. Three-quarter view showing padlock on back. From the Wellcome Collection; Creative Commons. • A woman being led in a scold’s bridle, from Old-time punishments by William Andrews. (1890) p140. Image hosted on Wikimedia Commons. • Anti-suffrage postcard featuring a ducking stool. From the LSE library and Wikimedia Commons. • Illustration from an 18th-century chapbook showing a woman being ducked reproduced in Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century by John Ashton (1834). Image hosted on Wikimedia Commons. • Illumination showing King Henry II and Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury. From Liber Legum Antiquorum Regum (14th century); British Library Cotton MS Claudius D. II, f.73. Image hosted on Wikimedia Commons. • “King Henry II whipped by the Pope’s Order”, from Robert Burton’s Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685). Image hosted at https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Burton-W...

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