My new blog post examines a brief dispute over money between the Met Police and the Home Office - the police won, in the longer term. legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/12/26/m...

A new post from @drkdwatson.bsky.social, drawing on records that that could be more broadly useful for histories of policing, crime, medicine, and 'forensics': 'Murder, Medicine, Money: A Met Police—Home Office Dispute, 1889-90' legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/12/26/m...

The @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference will be at Lancaster in July. Call for papers just released. I'll put putting together a proposal, so hope to see some of you there! #EarlyModern 🗃️ Details here: socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...

A nice surprise this morning: my article on prison reform from below is out! I believe it’s open access but let me know if you can’t get a copy and would like one. academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

This is a great post, looking at death, law, mapping, and the physical book itself. #History

Really neat example of how everything about an object—binding, foxing, water damage, annotations—can help us understand it.

A new guest post by Helen Rutherford: 'Mapping Death: The Atlas of Victorian Coroners' Districts' legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/12/11/m...

New post by @sarabutler.bsky.social: 'Bracton and the History of Emotions': legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/11/30/i...

New guest post by Susannah Wilson, on homicide, forensic psychology, and perceptions of criminal culpability in late 19th century France: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/11/20/t...

Fantastic new post by Krista Kesselring! legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/10/27/c...

What if the Devil made them do it? A new post by @kjkesselring.bsky.social 'Crime, Culpability, and the Devil in the Details'. legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/10/27/c...

New post by @drkdwatson.bsky.social and Carolyn Strange: "Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents" legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/09/23/p...

My new post is up! Butler, "Resisting Visitation in Late Medieval England" (2025). legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/08/14/r...

New post by @sarabutler.bsky.social: 'Resisting Visitation in Late Medieval England': legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/08/14/r...

My new post @legalmiscellany.bsky.social: 'Arresting Developments', on the abduction of an heiress in 1702 and the dangers of arrests. legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/07/14/a...

'Arresting Developments': a new post, on the abuses and dangers of arrests in 17th and 18th-century England: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/07/14/a...

How and why do forms of assault change with wider socio-legal changes? New post from @drkdwatson.bsky.social on acid attacks and more. legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/06/27/t...

The first batch of STAC 5 (Elizabethan Star Chamber proceedings) catalogue enhancements went live today. Short titles, dates, party names, document type, and county as standard. For some other really exciting additions, read on. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C...

CFP: Workshop on 'Crime and Conjugality in Europe, pre-1800' to be held in Oxford, 6 July 2026; deadline for expressions of interest is 15 Sept 2025. Please help spread the word! #history #SkyStorians www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2...

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

Now available as a (potentially affordable) paperback www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Sara Burton and Susanna Bastwick launched the petitioning campaign against the 'arbitrary' Star Chamber, eventually resulting in its abolition. @kjkesselring.bsky.social's new post on @legalmiscellany.bsky.social reveals the #PowerOfPetitioning: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/04/22/t...

Never miss anything by @kjkesselring.bsky.social!

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

A new post from @drkdwatson.bsky.social on why and how to bring assault into studies of the history of violence: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/03/30/i...

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

Extremely pleased to announce (and first ever post here) that Danica Summerlin and my special issue on 'law beyond the legal renaissance', funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social, is now out, with open access introduction www.tandfonline.com/toc/flgh20/4... .

This is a great resource: 355 historic statutes on slavery from the Atlantic World, 1661 - 1838. Laws of Enslavement and Freedom in the Anglo-Atlantic World slaveryandfreedomlaws.lib.unb.ca #History #EnslavedHistory #LegalHistory 🗃️

A new guest post, by Andrea McKenzie on 17th century legal shorthand and its uses - not just for speed, but also secrecy and snark: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/03/12/s...

A new post from @sarabutler.bsky.social: Weird and Wonderful: The Mixed Cultural Heritage of England's Common Law legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/02/20/w...

New digital resource: Rediscover the lost Court of King's Bench #skystorians 🗃️ #c18th kingsbench.engagedhumanities.org/?fbclid=IwY2...

Guess who is now on Bluesky? @legalmiscellany.bsky.social And here's the most recent post by Krista Kesselring! legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/01/06/c...

For those unfamiliar with our shared blog, Legal History Miscellany, legalhistorymiscellany.com here is the first post of 2025!