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Human rights --- Civil rights --- University of Exeter. --- Civil rights - Great Britain --- Civil rights - Europe

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British criminal justice is a principal legacy of Empire in the common law world. It attempts fairness between prosecutors and accused in an accusatory system for establishing criminal responsibility supervised by a judge who is conspicuously detached from the fray. Fundamental features, today recognised as human rights, include the presumption of innocence and onus of proof, the privilege against self-incrimination, and the right to legal advice and representation. In these lectures, Dame Sian Elias examines modern challenges to this conception of criminal justice prompted by anxiety about crime and the costs and delays in proof of guilt. They include enlarged prosecutorial discretion in charging, incentivisation of early guilty pleas, adoption of reverse onuses of proof, application to criminal proceedings of principles of modern civil case management, and measures to bring the victim into the criminal justice system. The lectures question whether this repositioning risks the integrity of the system.

Criminal justice, Administration of. --- Justice. --- Injustice --- Conduct of life --- Law --- Common good --- Fairness --- Administration of criminal justice --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Justice, Administration of --- Crime --- Criminal law --- Criminals --- Law and legislation --- University of Exeter.

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The three great privateering expeditions into the South Sea, which set out, respectively, in 1703, led by William Dampier; in 1708, led by Woodes Rogers; and in 1719, led by George Shelvocke, were costly and ambitious long distance voyages, carrying great risk for their investors but promising great reward. This book tells the story of the voyages and their impact. It argues that, far from being anachronistic activities more in keeping with an earlier age, as some scholars have asserted, the voyages were significant events and had a huge impact - on politicians, influencing future maritime and naval strategy; on investors, swelling enthusiasm for the South Sea Company which ended in the disastrous Bubble; and in literature, where the narratives of the voyages became an important source for some of the greatest literature of the period, including Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The book provides a great deal of original detail about the voyages, including the difficulties of undertaking such lengthy expeditions, unrest among the crews, and financial details of investmentsand returns - and losses. Tim Beattie completed his doctorate at the University of Exeter.

Privateering --- Corsairs --- Naval art and science --- Naval history --- Piracy --- History --- Great Britain --- History, Naval --- Dampier, William, --- Rogers, Woodes, --- Clipperton, John, --- Dampier --- Dampier, Guillaume --- George Shelvocke. --- Gulliver's Travels. --- Literature. --- Maritime Strategy. --- Privateering Expeditions. --- Robinson Crusoe. --- South Sea Company. --- South Sea. --- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. --- Tim Beattie. --- University of Exeter. --- William Dampier. --- Woodes Rogers.

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A survey of the changes in medical care for those approaching death in the early modern period. From the sixteenth century onwards, medical strategies adopted by the seriously ill and dying changed radically, decade by decade, from the Elizabethan age of astrological medicine to the emergence of the general practitioner in the early eighteenth century. It is this profound revolution, in both medical and religious terms, as whole communities' hopes for physical survival shifted from God to the doctor, that this book charts. Drawing on more than eighteen thousand probate accounts, it identifies massive increases in the consumption of medicines and medical advice by all social groups and in almost all areas. Most importantly, it examines the role of the towns in providing medical services to rural areas and hinterlands [using the diocese of Canterbury as a particular focus], and demonstrates the extending ranges of physicians', surgeons' and apothecaries' businesses. It also identifies a comparable revolution in community nursing, from its unskilled status in 1600 to a more exclusive one by 1700. IAN MORTIMER is an independent historian and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter.

Medicine --- Medical care --- Public health --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Health Workforce --- History --- Social aspects --- History. --- England --- Social conditions --- Apothecaries. --- Community Nursing. --- Early Modern Period. --- Eighteenth Century. --- Ian Mortimer. --- Medical Care. --- Medicine. --- Physicians. --- Probate Accounts. --- Royal Historical Society. --- Sixteenth Century. --- Surgeons. --- University of Exeter. --- apothecaries. --- astrological medicine. --- community nursing. --- diocese of Canterbury. --- early modern period. --- general practitioner. --- medical care. --- medical services. --- medical strategies. --- physicians. --- surgeons. --- towns.