State Trials, Volume I

Treason and Libel

Donald Thomas

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Routledge
01 November 2024

History; Law & society; Legal history; Offences against the government; Defamation law (slander & libel)

Series: Routledge Revivals

State Trials, Volume I (first published in 1972) contains cases concerned with treason and the freedom of press gathered from the full edition of State Trials completed in 1826. The author has selected some of the most interesting and important trials for this volume.

The book includes a general introduction, explaining the significance of State Trials as a whole. Each selected case is then introduced by a short essay, which explains the events surrounding the trial and its importance in relation to legal history.

State Trials will always be one of the most vivid and fascinating accounts of English life in all documentary literature. Tales of murder, treason, bigamy, adultery, political conspiracy, the scandals of the prison system, and the brutality of imperial conquest are told through the words of the great and the humble. Murderers, pornographers, conquerors, and heroes, all come alive in their own words. This book will be a fascinating read for students and researchers of law and history, and general readers interested in the topic.

Edited by: Donald Thomas
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9781032861685
ISBN 10: 1032861681
Series: Routledge Revivals
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 01 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Primary , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Salmon’s Preface (1719) Part 1. Treason 1. Sir Thomas More (1535) 2. Queen Catherine Howard (1542) 3. Colonel John Penruddock (1655) 4. Theobald Wolfe Tone (1798) Part 2. Libel 5. John Bastwick, Henry Burton and William Prynne (1637) 6. Richard Bxter (1685) 7. Edmund Curll (1727) 8. Henry Sampson Woodfall (1770) 9. John Horne (1777) 10. John Hatchard (1817)

Donald Thomas was an academic historian of crime. He was the author of several studies of the criminal underworld as well as biographies of Robert Browning, the Marquis de Sade, Henry Fielding, and Lewis Carroll.

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State Trials, Volume I

Treason and Libel

Donald Thomas

$189

Hardback

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