It is a seminal study of changing attitudes to and emotions about capital punishment across a period of profound cultural change. His The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1780-1868 (Oxford, 1994) won the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize, and was nominated as one of the historical Canon in the Times Higher Education Supplement, 2010. He retained his Fellowship in Caius, and returned to Cambridge in 2009, where he now lives. He became Professor of British History at the University of Essex 2003–9. He was among the pioneer scholars working on the history of crime and punishment. In the Cambridge History Faculty he was Lecturer and then Reader in British history, and co-editor of The Historical Journal, 1976-1986. At St John's College he took first-class honours in history and completed his Ph.D., before becoming a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. Born in South Africa in 1941, he graduated with Honours from Rhodes University before winning an Elsie Ballot scholarship to Cambridge. Vic Gatrell is a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Vic Gatrell at the IHR London February 2016
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