Fair and Unfair Trials in the British Isles, 1800-1940

David Nash is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the editor, together with Anne-Marie Kilday, of Law, Crime and Deviance Since 1700 (Bloomsbury, 2017) and the author of Christian Ideals in British Society (2013). He is the editor of the Social and Cultural History journal.Anne-Marie Kilday is Professor of Criminal History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is the author of A History of Infanticide in Britain (2013) and Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland (2007), as well as the editor, together with David Nash, of Histories of Crime, 1600-2000 (2010).

[A] very worthy addition to the historical happenings that have both shaped today’s world, and that continue to happen.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction, David Nash and Anne-Marie Kilday (Oxford Brookes University, UK)1. "A Monstrous Innovation on the Laws": Murder and Double Jeopardy at the Old Bailey, Heather Shore (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)2. Legislating to Ensure 'Impartial' Justice: Palmer's Act of 1856, Katherine Watson (Oxford Brookes University, UK)3. "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 (University of Northumbria, UK)4. The Trials of Peter Barrett: A Microhistory of Dysfunction in the Irish Criminal Justice System, Niamh Howlin (University College Dublin, Ireland)5. The Maamtrasna Murders: The Trial of Myles Joyce, Conor Hanley (NUI Galway, Ireland)6. 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 (University College London, UK)7. 'Circumstances of Unexplained Savagery': The Gilchrist Murder Case and its Legacy, 1908-1927, Anne-Marie Kilday (Oxford Brookes University, UK)8. 'Police Fiasco', 'The Black Army', 'Devil Dodgers' and 'Humbug': The Apparent 'Inevitability' of Unfair Blasphemy Trials up to 1922, David Nash (Oxford Brookes University, UK)9. The 'Bobbed Haired Bandit' and Smash and Grab Raider, Alyson Brown (Edge Hill University, UK)Bibliography Index