Scandal: How homosexuality became a crime

The strange story of how homosexuality came to be criminalised in 1885, a story that takes us from the notorious Dublin Scandal to the unique moment of fear - now largely forgotten - after Oscar Wilde's arrest ten years later. The events involved the author's ancestor, who he traces from prominence in Dublin to a secret life in Camberwell in London in the 1890s, and explains how the events of those years led to the persecution of tens of thousands over the next eight decades. This book looks a