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The tragedy of James and John - the last two men to be hanged in Britain just for being gay: London in 1835 was on the cusp of the Victorian age. But beneath the civilised veneer lurked a brutal darkness. Read CHRIS BRYANT's haunting new book

On a warm Saturday morning in August 1835, James Pratt said goodbye to his wife and daughter at his home in South-East London and set out for the city centre.

Victims of a cruel prejudice: the last two men to be executed for sodomy in England

Seventy-three prisoners were condemned to death at the Old Bailey in 1835 at a time when there were more than 200 capital offences on the statute book. Nevertheless, all had their sentences commuted apart from two: James Pratt and John Smith, who were convicted of ‘the detestable and abominable crime’ of sodomy. The indictment stated

James and John by Chris Bryant, review: harrowing history

Chris Bryant MP tells a harrowing story in his new book James and John, and asks why 19th-century Britain was uniquely obsessed with sodomy

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