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03247aam a2200433Ii 4500 001 D7D72202E55311E7AFB0C42A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20171220010225 008 170106t20172017enkabch b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0198799659 020 $a 9780198799658 035 $a (OCoLC)990635717 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d EMI $d OCLCF $d OCL $d RCJ $d INU $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-en 050 4 $a HV6950.L58 $b H55 2017 082 04 $a 364.9422/67034 $2 23 100 1 $a Hilliard, Christopher, $e author. 245 14 $a The Littlehampton libels : $b a miscarriage of justice and a mystery about words in 1920s England / $c Christopher Hilliard. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a viii, 241 pages : $b illustrations, facsimiles, 1 map, portraits ; $c 23 cm 520 8 $a The Littlehampton Libels tells the story of a poison-pen mystery that led to a miscarriage of justice in the years following the First World War. There would be four criminal trials before the real culprit was finally punished, with the case challenging the police and the prosecuting lawyers as much any capital crime. When a leading Metropolitan Police detective was tasked with solving the case, he questioned the residents of the seaside town of Littlehampton about their neighbours' vocabularies, how often they wrote letters, what their handwriting was like, whether they swore-and how they swore, for the letters at the heart of the case were often bizarre in their abuse. The archive that the investigation produced shows in extraordinary detail how ordinary people could use the English language in inventive and surprising ways at a time when universal literacy was still a novelty. Their personal lives, too, had surprises. The detective's inquiries and the courtroom dramas laid bare their secrets and the intimate details of neighbourhood and family life. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-236) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Prologue: Reopening the case -- Beach town -- Easter and after -- A craze for this sort of thing -- Will you let me have that letter -- A case of handwriting -- Circumstances grave and unusual -- Keeping observation -- The perfect witness -- Bad language -- It is not my verdict -- Epilogue: Brought to book -- Conclusion. 650 0 $a Libel and slander $z Littlehampton $z Littlehampton $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Anonymous letters. 650 0 $a Criminal investigation $z Littlehampton $z Littlehampton $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Judicial error $z Littlehampton $z Littlehampton $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Littlehampton (England) $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Anonymous letters. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00809851 650 7 $a Criminal investigation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00883201 650 7 $a Judicial error. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00984666 650 7 $a Libel and slander. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00997162 651 7 $a England $z Littlehampton. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210667 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211023227.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D7D72202E55311E7AFB0C42A97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search