Tower Hill

You are standing on a site that once functioned as the premier stage for public executions in London. Between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries, the elevated ground here served as a grim theater of state power, where thousands of spectators gathered to watch the beheadings of high-status political figures. While the nearby Tower of London held prisoners, the authorities intentionally used this space just outside the walls to broadcast the consequences of treason to the widest possible audience. Continue