Chris Bryant

James and John

A True Story of Prejudice and Murder

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 'staggering' (TLS), 'must-read' (Keir Starmer) book from the Labour minister and Sunday TImes bestselling author Chris Bryant resurrects the lives of the last two men who were hanged in England for being gay.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm
• ISBN-13: 9781526644992
• ISBN-10: 1526644991
• Artikelnr.: 70724193

Autorenporträt

Chris Bryant has been the Member of Parliament for Rhondda since 2001. He was Deputy Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for Europe in the last Labour government, and has been Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Shadow Leader of the House of Commons. The author of six previous books, he has written regularly for the Guardian and the Independent, and has appeared on every major TV and radio news and current affairs programme. He was the first gay MP to celebrate his civil partnership in the Palace of Westminster.

Rezensionen

Thanks to one resourceful Old Bailey court record-keeper and a good dose of archival zeal, in his new book Bryant uncovers the story of James Pratt and John Smith, the last men in England to be hanged for being gay. The resulting work is an insight into a supposedly enlightened era - of slavery abolitionists and the Great Reform Act. Bryant meticulously stitches together the reality beneath . . . With its courtroom denouement and Dickensian setting, TV commissioners will take note