Against The Law Peter Wildeblood

Name: Against The Law By Peter Wildeblood
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Summary

A riveting account of what it meant to be a homosexual in 1950s Britain, by a central figure in the infamous Montagu Case - a landmark in the gay history of Britain.

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Against The Law by Peter Wildeblood

'This right which I claim for myself and for all those like me is the right to choose the person whom I love' Peter Wildeblood

In March 1954 Peter Wildeblood, a London journalist, was one of five men charged with homosexual acts in the notorious Montagu case. Wildeblood was sentenced to eighteen months in prison, along with Lord Montagu and Major Michael Pitt-Rivers. The other two men were set free after turning Queen's Evidence.

Against the Law tells the story of Wildeblood's childhood and schooldays, his war service, his career as a journalist, his arrest, trial and imprisonment, and finally his return to freedom. In its honesty and restraint it is eloquent testimony to the inhumanity of the treatment of gay men in Britain within living memory.

Against The Law Reviews

A moving story of men who refused to feel ashamed * Telegraph *
The noblest, and wittiest, and most appalling prison book of them all * New Statesman *

About Peter Wildeblood

Born in Italy, Peter Wildeblood came to London at the age of three in 1926. He won a scholarship to Oxford but left to serve in the RAF 1941-46, returning to Oxford after the war. In 1954 he was a well-known London journalist when he was jailed for homosexuality. After serving his prison sentence, he wrote a number of novels, plays and television scripts and had a key role in the decriminalisation of homosexuality. He died in 1999.

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GOR010790085

ISBN 13

9781474612524

ISBN 10

1474612520

Title

Against The Law by Peter Wildeblood

Author

Peter Wildeblood

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Orion Publishing Co

Year published

2019-11-28

Number of pages

208

Prizes

N/A

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