In 1883 the editor of a penny newspaper stood trial three times for
the "obsolete" crime of blasphemy. The editor was G.W. Foote, the
paper was the "Freethinker", and the trial was the defining event
of the decade. This is a reconstructed account of blasphemy in
Victorian England, retelling the forgotten stories of more than 200
working-class blasphemers, such as Foote, whose stubborn refusal to
silence their "hooligan" voices helped secure the present right to
speak and write freely, and whose "martyrdom" transformed blasphemy
from a religious offence into a class and cultural crime.
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