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Fair and unfair trials in the British Isles, 1800-1940 : microhistories of justice and injustice
- Title
- Fair and unfair trials in the British Isles, 1800-1940 : microhistories of justice and injustice / edited by David Nash and Anne-Marie Kilday.
- Publication
- London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
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- Description
- x, 233 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm
- Summary
- "An exploration of criminal cases and problematic trials in England, Scotland, and Ireland between 1800-1940"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Anne-Marie Kilday and David Nash -- 'A monstrous innovation on the laws' : murder and double jeopardy at the Old Bailey / Heather ShoreII -- Legislating to ensure 'impartial' justice : Palmer's Act of 1856 / Katherine WatsonIII -- 'All that they had heard, all that they had read, all that they had seen' : questions of fairness and justice in the trial of George Vass / Helen Rutherford and Clare Sandford-Couch -- The trials of Peter Barrett : a microhistory of dysfunction in the Irish criminal justice system / Niamh Howlin -- The Maamtrasna murders : The trial of Myles Joyce / Conor Hanly -- George Bedborough and the Watford University Press : a 'scandalous and obscene libel in the form of a book' -- The almost accidental prosecution of sexual inversion / Lesley Hall -- 'Circumstances of unexplained savagery' : The Gilchrist Murder Case and its legacy, 1908-1927 / Anne-Marie Kilday -- 'Police fiasco', 'the black army', 'Devil Dodgers' and 'humbug' : the apparent 'inevitably' of unfair blasphemy trials up to 1922 / David Nash -- The 'bobbed-haired bandit' and smash-and-grab raider / Alyson Brown.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-3981
- ISBN
- 9781350050945
- 1350050946
- LCCN
- 2020027577
- OCLC
- 1159626718
- Title
- Fair and unfair trials in the British Isles, 1800-1940 : microhistories of justice and injustice / edited by David Nash and Anne-Marie Kilday.
- Publisher
- London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Nash, David, 1973- editor.Kilday, Anne-Marie, editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Fair and unfair trials in the british isles, 1800-1940 London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 9781350050952 (DLC) 2020027578
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-3981