History A-Level
Torture as a legal and investigative instrument
What Torture as a legal and investigative instrument means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Torture as a legal and investigative instrument
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Systematic interrogation in the Drudenhaus using instruments such as thumbscrews and the strappado to extract confessions and names of accomplices.
Topics that use Torture as a legal and investigative instrument
- Paper 3, Option 33: The witch craze in Britain, Europe and North America, c1580–c1750 - 3 The Great Witch Hunt, in Bamberg, Germany, 1623–32 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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