Geoffrey Robertson
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When Penguin Books was acquitted of obscenity for publishing Lady Chatterley’s Lover, a door was kicked open to the social revolution of the 1960s. Geoffrey Robertson discusses the impact of the trial, a defining moment in modern legal history. Published October 20 2010
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To mark the 350th anniversary this month of the execution of the surviving regicides following the Restoration of Charles II, Geoffrey Robertson, QC remembers the legacy of liberty that they left behind. Published October 11 2010
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History does not reveal the identity of the masked executioner who severed Charles I’s head from his body, or of his assistant who held it up to the waiting crowd. Geoffrey Robertson QC re-examines the evidence. Published October 13 2006
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Far from being the bogeymen of history, Geoffrey Robertson QC says that the English regicides were men of principle who established our modern freedoms. Published September 16 2005
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