Tag: Treason Records and research‘Wicked and seditious writings’ – Thomas Paine, Rights of Man and treasonWednesday 5 April 2023What happened when the radical writer was taken to court, accused of sedition?...Records and researchHow those found guilty of treason were punishedTuesday 28 March 2023Explore some of the more unusual, symbolic and grisly executions of traitors....Records and researchThe 1794 trial of Thomas Hardy: ‘New-fangled treasons’Tuesday 21 March 2023Discover an attempt to reimagine treason as a primarily political crime aimed at the...Records and researchDockyard incendiarist: The tale of ‘John the Painter’Wednesday 15 March 2023246 years ago this month, James Aitken was publicly executed at Portsmouth for heinous...Records and researchThe treason of Sir Thomas MoreTuesday 7 March 2023Sir Thomas More was a leading Tudor statesman. What led to his execution?...Records and research‘Excessive severity’: Treason and the Grenadian Rebellion of 1795Thursday 2 March 2023In this blog, curator Chris Day looks at how treason was used, and misused,...Records and researchAccroaching royal power in 1380s London: The downfall of Nicholas BrembreMonday 20 February 2023Explore the downfall of a key figure of 1380s London, a period characterised by...Records and researchThe Bag of SecretsThursday 16 February 2023What is the 'Bag of Secrets' and how did it come to exist?...Records and researchTreason against the state: America declares independenceFriday 3 February 2023Explore how and why America declared independence from Great Britain, and where treason fits...Records and researchTreason against the state: The execution of Charles IMonday 30 January 2023Levying war against the Crown was one of the key treasonable offences defined by...Records and research‘Compassing and imagining’: Magic and civil warThursday 19 January 2023Magic (to the medieval mind at least) could be used to produce real-world effects...Records and research‘Compassing and imagining’: Treasonous wordsThursday 12 January 2023The crime of high treason, as first defined in law in 1352 and still... 1 2 »
