A History of Torture in Britain ruthless and vicious men

ruthless and vicious men

the Lowry Theatre and art gallery

The story of Henry Tudor's march to Bosworth and the throne of England began long before the fatal summer of 1485

despite later being proven right

life in wartime Britain was simply an inconvenient version of life in peacetime

A History of Torture in Britain ruthless and vicious menThere is an ancient and quite baseless myth that the use of torture has never been legal in Britain. This old wives' tale arose because torture had been neither endorsed nor forbidden by either statute or common law. In other words; the law has, until the late twentieth century, never had anything to say on the subject. In fact, torture, inflicted both as punishment and as an aid to interrogation, has been a constant and recurring feature of British