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The Printer's Trial: The Case of John Peter Zenger and the Fight for a Free Press
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The Printer's Trial: The Case of John Peter Zenger and the Fight for a Free Press, by Gail Jarrow (Calkins Creek Books; $18.95)
One of the cornerstones of the American free press is the 1735 court case that first distinguished American from British libel law. In British law, anyone who printed criticisms of the government could be accused of seditious libel-whether the criticisms were true or false. In fact, writes Gail Jarrow, the libel was considered more serious if the published statements were true, for the perverse reason that readers would be more likely to believe them.
The case in ...
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Daniel Hack Tuke walking a tight-rope.
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose
; ...1939). So who was Daniel Hack Tuke? What was his significance? And...reputation been eclipsed? Daniel Hack Tuke was the scion of a Quaker family with...physician. His great-grandfather, William Tuke (1732-1822), was a wholesale...
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 "Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)")
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Canvas of Cornwall's past
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
; ...the painting include two of Tuke's favourite models, Johnny...supplemented by props from Tuke's studio - and were paid two...new attraction at Falmouth. Tuke is perhaps best known nowadays...Crosse (1742-1810) of Prince William Henry, grandson of George II...
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Best of Cornish art from last 150 years
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
; ...and often Lamorna Birch and Tuke would cycle round the area...and each other's company. Tuke had studied at the Slade under...his wife spent weekends with Tuke sailing along the coast from...of St Just-in-Penwith by William Williams for pounds950. And...
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A plan for a national consumer memorial: it will rise on the grounds of Saint Elizabeths in Washington, D.C.
Magazine article from: Behavioral Healthcare
; ...Liverpool, England, resting in the home of the grandson of William Tuke. Tuke, a Quaker merchant and doctor from York, England...asylum in 1792, modeling it after a simple family farm. Tuke's asylum rejected harsh "treatments" such as mechanical...
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Inspired by Hopewell.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: Behavioral Healthcare
; ...like to point out one factual error in this article. William Tuke did indeed found a "retreat asylum" in 1792, which...providing care with the same mind-set that motivated William Tuke and his grandson Samuel, that "the respect for patients...
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Designers Block.
Magazine article from: Design Week
; ...barbro@endresen.as 3 Barnaby Tuke Barnaby Tuke's Looptheloop coat hook is made...1393 M: 07815 287324 E: barnaby_tuke@hotmail.com 4 Ben Wilson Semi...Cameron 12 Lochy Road Inverlochy Fort William PH33 6NJ T: 01397 704648 E: billcam1...
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School's out for summer showing
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
; ...Edwin Harris, Henry Scott Tuke, Albert Chevallier Tayler, William Wainwright, Frank Bodilly...Walter Langley and Henry Scott Tuke were feted in their day, their...School Is Out, Henry Scott Tuke's Taking A Spell, Edwin Harris...
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Visual Art: The shock of the not-so-new 1900: Art at the Crossroads Royal Academy, London
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...homoerotic youths by Henry Scott Tuke: but whose were the small boys...substantially. Cezanne, Scott Tuke, Kroyer and Zorn may have been...Seeing it in the company of Scott Tuke and Zorn would have been as...Messaline" at Bordeaux or Sir William Rothenstein's A Doll's House...
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Exciting mix of then and now
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
; ...maritime specialist Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929), who was a member...London in 1920, and is listed in Tuke's Register. Two of Tuke's distinguished contemporaries...watercolours by father and son William and Frederick John Widgery. Among...
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Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...pursuits: editing medieval texts (William Thynne and Sir Brian Tuke), writing drama (John Heywood...redresses the balance by restoring Tuke to his role in the enterprise...political motivations (spelled out in Tuke's preface), it is rather strained...
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