The Sovereign Weapon
Francis FitzGibbon: The Old Bailey, 5 March 2020
Court Number One: The Old Bailey Trials that Defined Modern Britain
by Thomas Grant.
John Murray, 448 pp., £10.99, April,978 1 4736 5163 0 Show More
by Thomas Grant.
John Murray, 448 pp., £10.99, April,
“... Thomas Grant’s Court Number One tells the stories of 11 prominent trials heard in Court One of the Old Bailey between 1907, when it opened, and 2003. His aim is to use these stories as illustrations of ‘British sensibilities and preoccupations over the last hundred years … Through the criminal trials … there can be traced at least one version of the history of social and moral change over the last century ... ”