Crime, Social History and Mystery – Hanged in Error

Crime & Social History

Day course

Diane Janes

19 August 2021

Non-resident fee £58 per day

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Description

This course is part of Dillington Discovery Summer week.

Today we focus on a handful of famous cases which resulted in almost certain miscarriages of justice, looking at the circumstances of each case and asking whether these executions could have been avoided.

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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