The Black Book of 47,000 names

Another sensational trial of the First World War, where politics, law and sexuality mixed in a combustible cocktail, concerned ‘the libel trial of the century’. In early 1918 the Imperialist, a right-wing journal owned by the independent MP Noel Pemberton-Billing and funded by the minister of information and press baron Max Aitken, reported the existence ... Read more

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