The Tolpuddle martyrs : injustice within the law / Herbert Vere Evatt.

Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2009.

Reprint edition

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Loveless, George, -- 1797-1874.

Tolpuddle martyrs.

Agricultural laborers -- England -- Dorset.

Justice, Administration of. -- England.

I. The importance of the case

II. Social and economic background

III. The politicians and trade unionism

IV. Organisation of the prosecution

V. The course of justice

VI. What the magistrates did

VII. Part played by the juries

VIII. An account of the evidence

IX. Were the convictions bad?

X. Opinions as to the legal position

XI. Judge Williams and the sentences

XII. Whigs and Tories in agreement

XIII. Treatment of the prisoners in Australia

XIV. The pardons

XV. The Church's attitude

XVI. Consequences of the case

XVII. The lessons of martyrdom.

9781920899493

xxi, 104 pages ; 21 cm