Coroners in 13th-century England were supposed to view the body of every person who had died unexpectedly BEFORE that person was buried. However, the people of Kent frequently ignored this rule. In fact, between 1248 & 1255 they ignored it no less than 206 times! 🧵 1/3

Lovely October morning in Hull today, welcoming visitors to our great campus @uniofhull.bsky.social #criminology #politics #law

Women in Prison - Big Give campaign please share donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Lovely autumnal knitting on display in Wednesday market #beverley

History of Hull Fair www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Found a reference to industrial or reformatory school in your family history? Useful tips here: ourcriminalancestors.org/industrial-a...

The online version is here: www.history.org.uk/publications...

If you are interested in historicising, contextualising, or rewriting #truecrime, join @lizzieseal.bsky.social, me, and our 8+1 speakers! The conference is free and open but registration is required - see the programme and follow the link 👇 drive.google.com/file/d/1tLdN...

The Maps can also be used in teaching – whether it be in school, college, undergraduate, or postgraduate. If you have used the Medieval Murder Maps, we would love to hear your about your experience. Get in touch by comment, DM, or email in link below medievalmurdermap.co.uk/blog/medieva...

If anyone wants to listen, from c.22mins www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Had a great time on BBC Woman's Hour today. Lovely to meet Nuala and the team

My paper at the ‘Narratives of Captivity’ conference @northumbriauni.bsky.social looked at narratives of the condemned in the liminal space between death sentence & execution. To develop this work, I'd really like to work with experts in heritage or corpus linguistics.

Join us next Wednesday (25/6) 5:30-7:30 in person at the IHR and online for our final seminar of 2024-5 to hear David Turner ( Swansea University) present his paper ‘Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency & Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century’ @ihr.bsky.social shorturl.at/hMRGz

New blog post: Gloucestershire convicts on the notorious Second Fleet to Australia. gloscrimehistory.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/a...

🎨Explore the Theresa Roberts Art Collection & its new home at the Wilberforce Institute in this webinar on art, culture & collaboration. 🗣️ Featuring Theresa Roberts, Dr Emma Roberts, Prof Rina Arya & Dr Cassandra Gooptar 📅 Monday 14th July 2025 | 🕒 3pm - 4:30pm 🔗 Book now: bit.ly/43NSqQd

Could not have wished for a nicer cohort of New Generation Thinkers. Very excited to see everything that @bethmalory.bsky.social, @lrjdmnr.bsky.social, @reetiks.bsky.social, Sarah Smyth, & Ashleigh Percival-Borley get up to this year 👏🎉

We are delighted to welcome Professor Angela McCarthy, Director of the Centre for Global Migrations at the University of Otago and an Honorary Researcher of the Institute. Angela is visiting from New Zealand as part of her research into Scottish involvement in slavery in the Caribbean.

Our latest podcast episode on "The Peasant's Revolt of 1381" is now available everywhere podcasts can be found! Take a listen to our discussion on the rebellion which attempted to stand up to the policies of the crown! Let's know what you think by leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts.

Great to see a publication date for the Routledge Handbook of Jack the Ripper Studies. The chapter by @ourcriminalpast.bsky.social and I examines the extent to which discussions of this case matched developing schools of criminological thought at the time www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Staffordshire Archives have a huge amount of oral recordings of #BoatFamilies. Finding out how to access those is on my list of things to do... #OnePlaceWednesday

Looking to get started researching your criminal ancestors? Start with this easy guide #ancestors #familyhistory #crimehistory ourcriminalancestors.org/category/get...

🚨Calling all #police historians. Come in, police historians🚨 #CfP 'Policing and Public #Health' history workshop, London, 17/09/2025! Unsure if your work fits? Get in touch. We welcome all career stages, independent researchers, #GLAM and police sector folks. Hybrid is an option. #HistSTM

An unusual story for a boxing historian to pursue, perhaps. But hear (read) me out... grapplingwithhistory.com/2025/06/03/t...

New edition 278 of Prison Service Journal available now! This is a special edition focusing on developments in youth justice across Europe. 🔗 www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/prison-service-journal-278 #prisonservice #prisonservicejournal #psj #youthjustice #europeanyouthjustice #europe #openaccess

Fascinating visit to Stasi-Museum today #history #berlin

New publication: Unfit for Labour: Histories of disability & ill-health in Victorian prisons in great new ed. collection: Routledge Handbook on Disability, Crime & Justice #criminology #disabilityhistory #prisons www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

This week, the Society advertised two Centenary Fellowships, 2025-26, to support PhD students in completing a doctorate in #history. The Fellowships are held in association with @ihr.bsky.social and are for £8500 over 6 months. Applications, by 31 May, are via the IHR bit.ly/4mybVDV #Skystorians

#OnThisDay in London radical history, 1833: police kettle National Union of the Working Classes rally at the Battle of Coldbath Fields- in the resulting riot a copper is stabbed to death wp.me/p74yfw-ml

A new post from @sarabutler.bsky.social: 'All Bastards Are Free?' legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/05/16/a...

A new post, on the end of the infamous Court of Star Chamber and its afterlife: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/04/22/t...

📢 WHS Research Bursary! Postgrad, early career, or independent researcher in women's/gender history? Apply for up to £500! Open to those in Scotland or researching Scottish themes. 🗓️ Deadline: 31st May 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... #WomensHistory #GenderStudies #ResearchFunding

‘Barriers to prosecutions and convictions under the Modern Slavery Act 2015' report launched by the Modern Slavery Policy and Evidence Centre: modernslaverypec.org/resources/prosecutions-modern-slavery-act. @wilberforcehull.bsky.social

'You start to go crazy': The Australian who survived five years in a Chinese prison: 'You start to go crazy': www.bbc.com/news/article...

Since there’s so much referencing of the Blues Brothers today, this is your friendly reminder that the Joliet Area Historical Museum offers tours of The Old Joliet Prison. They’re working hard to preserve & restore the buildings & give a new view of prisons & prison reform. www.jolietmuseum.org

The Court-Ordered Takeover of Rikers Shows the Crisis in American Prisons and Jails A federal judge finally acknowledged that New York City won't fix the constitutional crisis at Rikers on its own, but the problem goes far beyond New York City reason.com/2025/05/14/t...

'The elite of the criminal world': The men behind the Great Train Robbery www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

New open access article on HMP Holloway, 1902-1955: representations and realities #prisonhistory #crimhistory #criminology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fully funded Queen Mary University of London with the Museum of the Home (Soundscapes of Domesticity: Music and Lived Experience in Non-Elite English Homes, 1780-1870). Deadline 17:00pm BST, Friday 23 May 2025. Great topic, great team. Go for it!

⏳️Just under seven weeks until our #researchbursary closes to applicants! For inspiration, read ​the blog produced by 2023 bursary recipient, Thomas Chidwick 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/2024/05/16/b... #ScottishHistory #Herstory

Had a lovely time chatting about my new book on the history of imprisonment in London with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Listen to us at the link below or wherever you normally get your podcasts: newbooksnetwork.com/to-detain-or... @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

I am looking forward to presenting at this interdisciplinary symposium that has been organised by Dr Emily Rose Hay and Dr Ciara Molloy at the University of Sheffield. #Criminology #History @emilyrosehay.bsky.social

📢Bookings for our 2025 conference are now open! ⏰7-9th July 2025 🏢Black Country Living Museum, Dudley 🗣️Biggest gathering of social & cultural historians in the UK 👉Book online here: socialhistory.org.uk/membership/a... 🗃️ History Humanities

📢 Calling WHS Members for our next online social! 🗓 Wed 26th March 2025 Join Dr. Alison McCall as we celebrate Mapping Memorials reaching 1,000 entries! Discover the stories of remarkable women in Scotland’s history. womenshistoryscotland.org/news-and-eve... #WomensHistoryMonth #Herstory

The trailer for the next On the Record, The National Archives’ podcast is out, featuring yours truly in the chair, speaking to three brilliant historians Kath Maude, @lisaberrywaite.bsky.social and @vickyig.bsky.social about women and work: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

Call for Papers for our co-hosted 5th International Conference on Punishment In The Global Peripheries: submit by 15th April 2025 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

I've just posted my Friday Substack thinking about the material culture of murder files and scenes of crime material; how should they be accessed or displayed? #police #crime #materialculture #archives #museums #ethics angiesuttonvane.substack.com/p/musing-no-8

I reviewed @jessamycarlson.bsky.social's fab book Approved Schools for Girls in England, 1933-1973. You can read the review here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/S2UWM...

Just sent this to the printers: it includes a fab piece from m'chum @jessamycarlson.bsky.social on the cemetery staff of 1921, and from Heidi Thomas, on the founders of the Royal College of Midwives, buried here. Want a copy? Join the Friends! brompton-cemetery.org.uk/friends.html

The Salvation Army had a terrible time at the British seaside in the C19th! Just look at this 1884 riot in Worthing... In part this was a class response to the 'vulgar' Salvation Army 'ruining' seaside resorts for middle-class holidaymakers.