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SUMMARY:Facing facts: the great Tichborne trials and the rise of modern vi
 sual evidence - Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University)
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CONTACT:Helen Curry
DESCRIPTION:The paper investigates the role of photography and other forms
  of visual evidence and display in the celebrated 19th-century trials in B
 ritain of the 'Tichborne Claimant'. Familiar to historians as the longest 
 legal proceedings of the Victorian age\, a popular cause that attracted wo
 rking-class support\, the Tichborne trials (1871–1874) were also a landm
 ark in the emergence of modern visual culture\, concepts of evidence and n
 ew methods of historical narration. Analysis of some of the central images
  from the case frames a discussion of historical methodologies at the hear
 t of current Victorian visual studies\, history of science and technology\
 , public history\, legal studies and social and cultural history.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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