Re-visiting the death of John Aitken, a.k.a. John the Painter, 10th March 1777
On the morning of 10th March 1777 a crowd, estimated as being twenty thousand strong, gathered by the naval dockyard in Portsmouth. Towering above them was the… Read More »Re-visiting the death of John Aitken, a.k.a. John the Painter, 10th March 1777