All rise.
"All rise. The court is now in session. The Honourable Billy Bragg is presiding"
The very courtroom in which the Tolpuddle Martyrs were tried and convicted in 1834 for their actions as members of a trade union was the most unusual venue I've ever been in for a concert. Billy Bragg's "A Short History of Protest Songs" was a fund-raising benefit show for Dorchester's Shire Hall.
We were seated in the public gallery. The dock is the small area between us and the judge's bench. Defendants were brought up to the dock from the cells below. The jury will have sat to the right.
All rise.
"All rise. The court is now in session. The Honourable Billy Bragg is presiding"
The very courtroom in which the Tolpuddle Martyrs were tried and convicted in 1834 for their actions as members of a trade union was the most unusual venue I've ever been in for a concert. Billy Bragg's "A Short History of Protest Songs" was a fund-raising benefit show for Dorchester's Shire Hall.
We were seated in the public gallery. The dock is the small area between us and the judge's bench. Defendants were brought up to the dock from the cells below. The jury will have sat to the right.