Women in the Dock on Trial for Murder

I thought it'd be good to look at them as people in their own right, and they've always been really important in women's history. Sometimes a woman on trial for murder can say things that are otherwise unsayable in Victorian society. When a crime happens, it's like a little window into the past because stuff gets recorded. And what I found so interesting about your series, there are 10 episodes, eight cases. So you have two sort of discursive episodes where you sort of talk about four cases previously, have a discussion, and then do four more cases and then have a discussion. That's a really interesting way of framing it because you're looking at individual stories and then