Adopting a microhistory approach, Fair and Unfair Trials in the British Isles, 1800-1940 provides an in-depth examination of the evolution of the modern justice

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This work presents an accurate account of the trial of the Rugeley Poisoner, William Palmer. He was an English doctor found guilty of murder in one of the most