Books by Allyson N. May

A history of the English criminal trial and the development of a criminal bar in London between 1750 and 1850. It charts the transformation of the legal process and the evolution of professional standards of conduct for the criminal bar by examining the working lives of the Old Bailey barristers.

Hugely popular in its own day, Peter Beckford's Thoughts on Hunting is often cited as marking the birth of modern hunting and continues to be quoted from affectionately today by the hunting fraternity. This study explores the attacks made on fox hunting from 1781 to the legal ban achieved in 2004.