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Humanities & Science
History: Five Famous Trials from British History
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Course details
Course code
Q00009383Course date
Start: 08/01/25
End: 05/02/25
Number of classes
5 sessionsBranch
Billingshurst BranchTutor
Peter BloodFee range
Free to £42.00
How you'll learn
Venue
Billingshurst Community and Conference CRoman Way
Billingshurst
RH14 9QW
Level of study
Availability
This course is for early booking only.
Course overview
On this course we will study the people, issues and outcomes in five famous trials from British history, with a view to understanding their political, social and legal significance.
The trials to be studied will be those of:
Edwin Dyett in 1917
Ronald Light in 1920
Harold Loughans from 1944 to 1963
Lord Montagu in 1954
And of those accused of the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence, from 1996 to 2012.
This course is for early booking only.
Course description
Every famous trial is a snapshot of history in the making. We see the cast of characters strutting on the stage that is the court room, acting out their roles against the backdrop of forces that are often beyond their control - the letter of the law, the power of the state, the force of prejudice, the facts of the case.
Their focus is the outcome of 'their' trial, but ours is more than that; why is this trial famous, how did it change things, what lessons does it teach us?
On this course we will study the people, issues and outcomes in five famous trials from British history, with a view to understanding their political, social and legal significance.
The trials to be studied will be those of:
Edwin Dyett in 1917
Ronald Light in 1920
Harold Loughans from 1944 to 1963
Lord Montagu in 1954
And of those accused of the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence, from 1996 to 2012.
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