Newspaper cutting
The Times
Category
Ephemera
Date
9 Apr 1936
Materials
Newspaper
Measurements
158 x 115 x 2 mm
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 749869.31
Summary
One of a series of newspaper cuttings - miscellaneous items of interest to the family. A newspaper cutting from THE TIMES THURSDAY APRIL 9 1936 Page 4, A full page with possible items of interest including: LAW AS A BASIS OF SOCIETY LORD MACMILLAN ON DAILY CONTACTS STRANGE MISCONCEPTIONS Lord Macmillan delivered an address on "Law and the Citizen" which was broadcast in the National programme last evening. Nothing was more remarkable, he said, than the strange misconceptions which existed about the law. It was a tribute to the genius of Dickens and to the pervasive influence of the daily Press that to the ordinary citizen mention of the law conjured up a confused vision of the courts as portrayed in "Pickwick Papers" and "Bleak House", mixed with recollections of reports of sensational criminal trials and sordid matrimonial disputes. As for the study of the law, it was deemed a dismal and repellant pursuit whose mysteries no one would care to penetrate who was not paid to do so. ..................................................
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to the National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.
Makers and roles
The Times, printer and publisher