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    The Newspaper Press, Sedition and the High Court of Justiciary in Late Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh

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    Authors
    Barrie, D.
    McEwan, Joanne
    Date
    2019
    Type
    Book Chapter
    
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    Barrie, D. and McEwan, J. 2019. The Newspaper Press, Sedition and the High Court of Justiciary in Late Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh. In Political Trials in an Age of Revolutions: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793-1848, 47-77. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
    Source Title
    Political Trials in an Age of Revolutions: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793-1848
    ISBN
    978-3-319-98959-4
    Faculty
    Faculty of Business and Law
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74583
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    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 of political, social and cultural factors and by the threat of judicial censure. Some coverage provided a forum for political protest and condemnation, but most utilised rhetorical strategies to present the conduct of the Scottish High Court in a positive light and to defend Scots law in the face of English media criticism.

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