An Uncommon Hangman: The life and deaths of Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard 9781742238401, 9781742237343, 1742238408

Executioners were once a critical component of the justice system in New South Wales. In an era when judges handed down

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An Uncommon Hangman: The life and deaths of Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard
9781742238401, 9781742237343, 1742238408

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