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TRYING TIMES
1 Crowds gather outside Wandsworth Prison
after the execution of Nazi propagandist
William Joyce in 1946(^2) The gunpowder plot conspirators shown in a
contemporary engraving. Guy Fawkes is second
from right
(^3) A 19th-century painting showing the
trial of William Wallace, 130 5
4 The 40 “Catholic martyrs” of England and
Wales, 1 535 –1679 (when Roman Catholicism
was widely equated with treason), shown in a
20th-century painting’
(^5) Thomas More is beheaded on Tower Hill for
using “malicious words” against Henry VIII
(^6) Roger Casement, the Irish nationalist executed
in 1916 for helping Germany, shown in Peru, where
he unmasked human rights abuses
7 A contemporary woodcut shows Charles I
losing his head at Whitehall in 1649
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