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Regarding Pratt and Smith, the last couple of sodomites to be hanged in Britain’ (2019)
Book Chapter
Janes, D. Regarding Pratt and Smith, the last couple of sodomites to be hanged in Britain’. In From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage: International Perspectives since 1789 (43–57). (1). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350023932.ch-004

The law in Georgian England was not always effective in preventing forms of public awareness of same-sex relationships that included elements of sympathy on the part of observers. I will argue that the move during the nineteenth century away from han... Read More about Regarding Pratt and Smith, the last couple of sodomites to be hanged in Britain’.