Download or read book Life within Hidden Worlds written by Jessica Williams Saunders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout most of human history, our ancestors have done rather poorly when dealing with acts of violence. To cite but one of many shocking examples, let us perhaps recall a case from 1801, of an English boy aged only 13, who was executed by hanging on the gallows at Tyburn. What was his crime? It seems that he had been condemned to die for having stolen a spoon (Westwick, 1940).