I love this kind of historical information. It's difficult (to me) to empathise with past historical events when we (I) have no knowledge of those people and how they lived.

Reading about their daily struggles gives events from that time a whole new image.

BTW, I found extremely interesting that they gave the condemned an interview which they then wrote down ( http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=OA17160127 ).

How many average people from that time have the luxury of their lives being recorded for future people to see? How many of us have that today?