HARRY POTTER is a criminal barrister and the author of Hanging in Judgment: Religion and the Death penalty in England form the Bloody Code to Abolition (1993); Blood Feud: The Stewarts and Gordons at War in the Age of Mary Queen of Scots (2002); and Edinburgh Under Siege (2003). With Boydell & Brewer, he has authored Law, Liberty and the Constitution: A Short History of the Common Law (2015) and Shades of the Prison House: A History of Incarceration in the British Isles (2019).
List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Preface: A Good and Useful Life Family Tree PART I
THE YOUNG IDEALIST: 1884
1914 1. Early Years and Influences: 1884
1902 2. Alma Mater: 1902
1906 3. Across the Bridges: 1906
1910 4. Bridging the Gap: 1911
1914 PART II
THE HAPPY WARRIOR: 1914
1922 5. Reading, Digging and Singing: 1914
1915 6. Waste of Muscle, Waste of Brain: 1916
1919 7. A Labour of Love: 1919
1922 PART III
PRISON COMMISSIONER: 1922
1945 8. Paterson's Light Horse: 1922
1934 9. Solvitur Perambulando: 1922
1924 10. The 'Paterson Era': 1922
1939 11. Prison Wallah: 1925
1926 12. Expert Witness: 1925
1933 13. The Transformation of Borstals: 1922
1930 14. Long March to Lowdham: 1930
1939 15. The Enigma of Harold Jones: 1921
1941 16. Voyage of Discovery: 1931 17. From Dartmoor to Berlin: 1932
1935 18. Strange New World: 1937 19. Policy, Progress and the Onset of War: 1938
1939 20. War Work: 1939
1943 21. West Africa and Malta: 1943
1944 PART IV
CROSSING THE BRIDGE: 1945
1947 22. Picking up the Pieces: 1945
1946 23. Death, Commemoration, Legacy: 1947
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