Crime and Social History : You the Jury – A 1940s Case with Diane Janes

Crime & Social History

Day course

Diane Janes

22 February 2022

9:00 am to 4:00 pm

£60

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Description

This day course is part of Dillington Discovery Winter/Spring week.

A week of real-life murder cases, fascinating discussions and crime writing.  Diane Janes invites you into the world of factual and fictional murder. Attend all week or by the day, whatever you do, you’ll be gripped and entertained.  Once booked, you will receive the full course detail.

Become part of a jury and consider a real life case of the murder of a woman, which came before the British courts in the 1940s. You will listen to the evidence, discuss the case with your fellow jurors and reach your verdict. When the verdict is in, the group will discuss a variety of issues which arise from this and similar cases.

(This case has not been studied at Dillington previously).

You can attend all week or by the day. £60 per day.

Tutor information

Diane Janes is an award winning author, who has written five highly regarded crime novels and four respected factual books on real life historical murders. She is regularly invited to lecture on crime and social history to a wide variety of audiences, in locations as diverse as cruise ships and village halls, and her first work of non-fiction, Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train Robbery is now referenced in academic text books on the history of policing.

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