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Tichborne Claimant, The: A Victorian Sensation - Softcover

McWilliam, Rohan

 
9781350547636: Tichborne Claimant, The: A Victorian Sensation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1350547638 ISBN 13: 9781350547636
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

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The extraordinary case in 1874 of the Tichborne Claimant generated the longest trial, to that point, in British legal history. Was the stout man claiming to be the vanished Sir Roger Tichborne really who he said he was; or was he Arthur Orton, a butcher from Wagga Wagga in Australia? Was he the public school educated rightful heir to a landed estate or an ill-educated fraud? Why, if he was a fraud, had the dowager Lady Tichborne recognised him? And what was the truth about his tattoo?


The trial mesmerised the British public and led to furious debate, to the extent that several newspapers were devoted entirely to the case and a Tichbornite candidate won a seat in Parliament. The case divided the nation along political, religious and social lines, and the campaign for justice for the Claimant proved a focus for political activism between the defeat of the Chartists and rise of the Labour Party.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rohan McWilliam is Professor of Modern British History and Co-Director of the Labour History Research Unit at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. He has written extensively on the history of radicalism from the 19th century onwards and is the editor of (with Jonathan Davis), Labour and the Left in the 1980s (2017). He writes regularly on politics for The Conversation and other publications and has commented on current affairs for, amongst other outlets, The Observer and Times Radio.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury Academic
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1350547638
ISBN 13 
9781350547636
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Anzahl der Seiten
390
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