Meredith Gamer The Past—or, more accurately, pastness—is a position.Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past.— Michel-Rolphe Trouillot, Silencing the Past (1997)[1] On December 1, 1783, London’s Gentleman’s Magazine presented its readers with a precisely executed picture of the city’s newest execution machine (Fig. 1). Jutting out…
Britain, Empire, and Execution in the Long Eighteenth Century
