The legal threat to our spiritual tradition – Daily Telegraph
“The McFarlane judgment raises fundamental questions about church and state, says Michael Nazir-Ali.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th April 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Category: legal history
Campaigners petition MPs to clear executed admiral – The Guardian
“The moment that guaranteed Admiral Byng’s immortality was, sadly, his last. In March 1757 the unfortunate sailor was found guilty of neglect of duty by a court martial, hauled onto the quarter-deck of his flagship and shot dead by a firing squad.”
The Guardian, 13th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Digitizing the Hanging Court – Smithsonian.com
“Cutpurses! Blackguards! Fallen women! The Proceedings of the Old Bailey is an epic chronicle of crime and vice in early London. Now anyone with a computer can search all 52 million words.”
Smithsonian.com, April 2007
Source: www.smithsonianmagazine.com
Related link: Proceedings of the Old Bailey
