The ripping yarn of a treasure, a dead bishop, a broke pope, and the pirates who inadvertently paid for the walls of Avignon is truth stranger than fiction. Because all good stories involve pirates.
The “Great Sedition Trial” uncovered shocking connections at the time with the German reich that we were fighting, and challenged the idea that the nation was of a single mind during the war. It also challenged exactly how far the national commitment to freedom of speech and opinion reached, especially in extraordinary times.