![]() (Another book, perhaps?) Some cases might have been included but for the fact that they have already been explored in Grant’s previous book, about the life and trials of Jeremy Hutchinson QC (which we reviewed here). Some rather famous trials took place in other courts in the building, but they are not included. ![]() The cases have been selected by reference to their significance, but also to the fact that they took place, not just at the Old Bailey, but in Court No 1. As the title suggests, these trials helped to define modern Britain. In each case, Thomas Grant digs up the background story and presents the social and political context in which the trials took place, so as to enable the reader not only to make sense of the course that the trial took, but also to understand the public reaction to it at the time. Most of the intervening cases are also murders, as perhaps you’d expect, but there are also cases of criminal libel, espionage and treason. ![]() The historic cases included in Court Number One – the Old Bailey Trials that Defined Modern Britain range in time from the Camden Town Murder trial of 1907, soon after the court was opened, to the Soham murders trial of 2003-4. ![]()
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