The Oz Obscenity Trial: How a Magazine Made by Schoolkids Ended Up at the Old Bailey

In the summer of 1971, three men sat in London's Old Bailey facing years behind bars over a magazine that teenagers had put together. The Oz obscenity trial ran for six weeks, the longest obscenity case in British legal history, and it turned a scruffy underground publication into the centre of a genuine culture war. By the time it was over, the case had pulled in John Lennon, a Rumpole of the Bailey creator, forced prison haircuts, and a Lord Chief Justice personally sending a clerk out to...