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Facing facts: the great Tichborne trials and the rise of modern visual evidence

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The paper investigates the role of photography and other forms of visual evidence and display in the celebrated 19th-century trials in Britain of the ‘Tichborne Claimant’. Familiar to historians as the longest legal proceedings of the Victorian age, a popular cause that attracted working-class support, the Tichborne trials (1871–1874) were also a landmark in the emergence of modern visual culture, concepts of evidence and new methods of historical narration. Analysis of some of the central images from the case frames a discussion of historical methodologies at the heart of current Victorian visual studies, history of science and technology, public history, legal studies and social and cultural history.

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