The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain (1st ed. 2015 edition.)

An academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting ('hanging in chains'), since the nineteenth century.

Gibbeting involved placing the executed body of a malefactor in an iron cage and suspending it from a tall post.

A body might remain in the gibbet for many decades, while it gradually fell to pieces.

Hanging in chains was a very different sort of post-mortem punishment from anatomical dissection, although the two were equal alternatives in the eyes of the law.

Where dissection obliterated and de-individualised the body, hanging in chains made it monumental and rooted it in the landscape, adding to personal notoriety.