John Hilliard

Relations between the Gooding household and their neighbours were warm until Easter Sunday 1920, when the Goodings had an argument witnessed by many people on their street. In resp...

The conclusion summarizes key points about the crime of libel, working-class literacy, and social values, and then reflects on the purpose and ambitions of microhistories such as t...

The epilogue considers the mystery of Edith Swan and her wider significance. It begins by examining the press commentary on her and moves down into questions of motive and agency. ...

The prologue introduces the reader to the early phases of the case by relating the responses of senior government lawyers to what they suspected was a miscarriage of justice. Rose ...

The introduction sketches the basic pattern of the events—a quarrel between neighbours led to a storm of abusive letters, private prosecutions for criminal libel, one of the antago...

This chapter is a complement to chapter five. Where chapter five examined handwriting as a site of the social and the individual, this chapter deals with vocabularies in a similar ...