The History Society is an organisation run by and for History students at Oxford Brookes University. Each year, the Society's Lecture Series hosts leading scholars from around the world who deliver papers which explore the historical roots of big issues that shape our world today. Each speaker approaches their subject from different disciplinary, temporal, and geographical perspectives. All of them, however, use a historical lens to illuminate uncovered aspects of problems that we grapple with in the modern world, touching on topics from politics to race, empire to technology, and health to gender. The History Society Podcast makes these lectures available to the public so that audiences beyond Oxford Brookes University can enjoy and learn from them.
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The History Society is an organisation run by and for History students at Oxford Brookes University. Each year, the Society's Lecture Series hosts leading scholars from around the world who deliver papers which explore the historical roots of big issues that shape our world today. Each speaker approaches their subject from different disciplinary, temporal, and geographical perspectives. All of them, however, use a historical lens to illuminate uncovered aspects of problems that we grapple with in the modern world, touching on topics from politics to race, empire to technology, and health to gender. The History Society Podcast makes these lectures available to the public so that audiences beyond Oxford Brookes University can enjoy and learn from them.
Capital Punishment in the Isle of Man 1872 - 1994: A Macabre Dance
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3 years ago
Capital Punishment in the Isle of Man 1872 - 1994: A Macabre Dance
The last execution carried out in the Isle of Man, that of John Kewish, embarrassed Queen Victoria so much that the Manx Criminal Code of 1872, decades in the making, was amended in the same year. The last death sentence, passed on Tony Teare in 1992, was the final example of a mandatory death sentence being passed when all concerned knew that the UK government would never allow it to be carried out. The disjunction between law and reality was so sharp that the Manx legislature abolished the death penalty before Teare was retried, and sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment. Why was Queen Victoria embarrassed? Why did the Isle of Man retain the death penalty for so long after effective abolition in the UK? The answer to both questions lies in the status of the Isle of Man as a Crown dependency, neither independent nor part of the UK.
The History Society Podcast
The History Society is an organisation run by and for History students at Oxford Brookes University. Each year, the Society's Lecture Series hosts leading scholars from around the world who deliver papers which explore the historical roots of big issues that shape our world today. Each speaker approaches their subject from different disciplinary, temporal, and geographical perspectives. All of them, however, use a historical lens to illuminate uncovered aspects of problems that we grapple with in the modern world, touching on topics from politics to race, empire to technology, and health to gender. The History Society Podcast makes these lectures available to the public so that audiences beyond Oxford Brookes University can enjoy and learn from them.
