Simon Devereaux, University of Victoria

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Justice, mercy and the gallows: capital punishment in Hanoverian London, 1689-1837
SSHRC · 2008 · Principal investigator
$85,543

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Justice, mercy and the gallows: capital punishment in Hanoverian London, 1689-1837

Principal investigatorSSHRC2008Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Devereaux, Simon P.R.

Keywords: legal history; capital punishment; history of punishment; English history; cultural history

$85,543

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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