The Newspaper Press, Sedition and the High Court of Justiciary in Late Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh
Few events in Scottish criminal justice history are as infamous as the sedition trials of the early 1790s. This chapter explores how the trials were represented in Scottish newspapers, and how the judicial system responded. Press reports, it is shown, were multi-variant and conditioned by a variety...
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Palgrave Macmillan
2019
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| Online Access: | https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319989587 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74583 |