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To everyone, Christmas greetings and many thanks for all the helpful comments on The Trial blogs.  Wherever you are, here’s hoping that you have a peaceful and happy New Year, and you keep reading my blog.

2019 – An Auspicious Year

The coming Chinese New Year – 5^th February – is auspicious.  It celebrates the year of the pig.  And reader, the pigs could be flying in 2019 as there are plans to publish The Trial in the summer.

Then it’s the launch party and off to Hollywood.

As a loyal member of the readers’ panel, you can claim your complimentary copy of the first edition.

The Trial

The last five blogs have introduced you to the murky world of London in the late 19^th century when the trial took place.

We have had a glimpse of the powerful and aspiring professions – lawyers, administrators, doctors – institutional life and formed public opinion.

We have seen the beginnings of a malevolent force swirling around a great London Teaching Hospital to blunt the formation of a new profession, nursing.

This London Teaching Hospital became the crucible of the black art of organisational politics where gender, class and religious tensions fuelled the inter and intra-professional disputes that culminated in a nurse being tried for manslaughter.

This 19^th century story resonates to this very day.

Want to know more about the intricacies of medical and nursing politics?

Come back in the New Year when we sit in Court Room 3 of the Old Bailey to hear about the terrible shenanigans of professional people and their jealous rivalries …