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Blogging on the history of law, crime, and justice at www.legalhistorymiscellany.com.
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New blog post examines forensic continuity in the history of serial homicide: The ‘Ripper Template’ and Forensic Investigations of Serial Murder
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The ‘Ripper Template’ and Forensic Investigations of Serial Murder
By Cassie Watson; posted 19 June 2026. Serial offenders are assumed to have at least two to four victims;[1] to kill for pleasure or gain; and to follow a pattern in victim selection. If, as Eric H…
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/06/19/the-ripper-template-and-forensic-investigations-of-serial-murder/
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New post from
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on the influence of forensic techniques and assumptions from the 'Jack the Ripper' investigation:
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The ‘Ripper Template’ and Forensic Investigations of Serial Murder
By Cassie Watson; posted 19 June 2026. Serial offenders are assumed to have at least two to four victims;[1] to kill for pleasure or gain; and to follow a pattern in victim selection. If, as Eric H…
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/06/19/the-ripper-template-and-forensic-investigations-of-serial-murder/
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Mitra Sharafi
16 days ago
For anyone who published a book, article, or digital project on legal history between Jan.2025 and Dec.2026: you should apply to be featured in the ASLH's virtual event series for next yr--"Making Connections: New Works in Legal History, 2026-27." Due June 30, 2026:
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Making Connections: New Works in Legal History, 2026-27 | American Society for Legal History
Making Connections: New Works in Legal History Series Sponsored by the American Society for Legal History Deadline for Applications: June 30, 2026 The ASLH Making Connections: New Works in Legal Histo...
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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦
about 2 months ago
New post I wrote on the problems with raptus. Enjoy!
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Reading Records of Raptus from Thirteenth-Century England
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 8 May 2026. Medieval England had no word that was equivalent to the modern term rape. Instead, lawmakers and the judiciary used the term raptus, which is often translated …
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/05/08/reading-records-of-raptus-from-thirteenth-century-england/
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New post from
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: "Reading Records of 'Raptus' from Thirteenth-Century England":
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Reading Records of Raptus from Thirteenth-Century England
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 8 May 2026. Medieval England had no word that was equivalent to the modern term rape. Instead, lawmakers and the judiciary used the term raptus, which is often translated …
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/05/08/reading-records-of-raptus-from-thirteenth-century-england/
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Mitra Sharafi
about 2 months ago
If you published a book on legal history in *2025,* please nominate it for a 2026 ASLH prize! For US work: Cromwell Prize for early career authors & Reid Prize for mid- and senior career authors. For non-US work: Stein Award. Due June 1:
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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦
2 months ago
New post from Krista Kesselring for Earth Day! The Most Excellent Things are the King’s? The Case of Mines (1568)
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The Most Excellent Things are the King’s? The Case of Mines (1568)
Who owns what lies within the ground beneath our feet? This post explores the answers offered in a 1568 case that has both analogues and legacies today.
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/04/22/the-most-excellent-things-are-the-kings-the-case-of-mines-1568/
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Krista Kesselring
2 months ago
My new post, on the Elizabethan 'Case of Mines', which turns out to have lots of interesting bits just below the surface.
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The Most Excellent Things are the King’s? The Case of Mines (1568)
Who owns what lies within the ground beneath our feet? This post explores the answers offered in a 1568 case that has both analogues and legacies today.
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/04/22/the-most-excellent-things-are-the-kings-the-case-of-mines-1568/
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On this Earth Day, the blog offers a brief introduction to an Elizabethan court case still cited in common law jurisdictions as a foundational precedent in assertions of the Crown’s mineral rights: the Case of Mines (1568).
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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦
3 months ago
New post from Cassie Watson! Read about "Dick the Devil!" Memorable Monikers: Dick the Devil
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Memorable Monikers: Dick the Devil
By Cassie Watson; posted 27 March 2026. What did a cheese thief in Victorian Lancashire have in common with a pitman in County Durham, a bigamist in the Rhondda Valley, or an eighteenth-century Wel…
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/03/27/memorable-monikers-dick-the-devil/
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One from the archive, on the practice of pardoning on Good Friday:
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Good Friday Pardons in England
‘To err is human, to forgive divine’: A new post looking at the context for ‘Bloody’ Queen Mary’s Good Friday pardons of 1554.
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2017/04/14/good-friday-pardons-in-england/
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🇨🇦 Katherine D. Watson 🇬🇧
3 months ago
My new blog post introduces one of the most extraordinary 18th-century criminals I've ever come across! Memorable Monikers: Dick the Devil
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Memorable Monikers: Dick the Devil
By Cassie Watson; posted 27 March 2026. What did a cheese thief in Victorian Lancashire have in common with a pitman in County Durham, a bigamist in the Rhondda Valley, or an eighteenth-century Wel…
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/03/27/memorable-monikers-dick-the-devil/
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New post from
@drkdwatson.bsky.social
, tracing the stories of a set of 18th and 19th-century repeat offenders who earned themselves a memorable nickname: 'Dick the Devil'.
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Memorable Monikers: Dick the Devil
By Cassie Watson; posted 27 March 2026. What did a cheese thief in Victorian Lancashire have in common with a pitman in County Durham, a bigamist in the Rhondda Valley, or an eighteenth-century Wel…
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/03/27/memorable-monikers-dick-the-devil/
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Guest post by
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: 'Identifying Women Jurors and Institutionalising Women's Citizenship'
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Identifying Women Jurors and Institutionalising Women’s Citizenship
In this guest post, Kay Crosby uses the early history of women’s jury service to explore the criteria by which the state recognized some women (but not others) as citizens.
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/02/19/identifying-women-jurors-and-institutionalising-womens-citizenship/
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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦
5 months ago
My latest post is up! Enjoy. Agnes de Frowyk: Widow, “Next Friend,” and Medieval Tiger Mom
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Agnes de Frowyk: Widow, “Next Friend,” and Medieval Tiger Mom
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 5 February 2026. The church tried its best to vilify social mobility in late medieval England, encouraging good Christians to embrace their place in society (no matter how…
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/02/05/agnes-de-frowyk-widow-next-friend-and-medieval-tiger-mom/
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New post from
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: 'Agnes de Frowyk: Widow, "Next Friend," and Medieval Tiger Mom'.
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Agnes de Frowyk: Widow, “Next Friend,” and Medieval Tiger Mom
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 5 February 2026. The church tried its best to vilify social mobility in late medieval England, encouraging good Christians to embrace their place in society (no matter how…
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/02/05/agnes-de-frowyk-widow-next-friend-and-medieval-tiger-mom/
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Kathleen Commons
5 months ago
I am once again imploring people to not abuse Calvin's Case to argue against birthright citizenship in the US: it simply summarised a bunch of (contested) legal thinking. More important is that in 17thC legal practice, birthright subjecthood most certainly *was* a thing
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History Matters - Why is a 17th century English court case being used to justify Donald Trump
Kathleen Commons | 2 May 2025 ◇ American History | Birthright Citizenship| English Legal History | Immigration Law
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Holly Brewer
5 months ago
Important scholarship on British crown ownership of slaves in the West Indies in the early 19th c has bern done by scholars from the West Indies like Alvin Thompson in 2002
www.abebooks.com/978976640120...
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Unprofitable Servants: Crown Slaves in Berbice, Guyana, 1803-1831 - Thompson, Alvin O.: 9789766401207 - AbeBooks
In 1803, during the Napoleonic Wars, the British imperial government conquered the Dutch colony of Berbice and took over the management of presumed governmental slaves. These consisted of persons on f...
https://www.abebooks.com/9789766401207/Unprofitable-Servants-Crown-Slaves-Berbice-9766401209/plp
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Jennifer Aston
5 months ago
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#CfP
@divorcehistory.bsky.social
conference: Marital breakdown in the English common law world 1801-1969 📅 20 April 2026 🎓Northumbria University 🎤 Keynote: Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE 💰 Speaker bursaries available!
#legalhistory
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Broken Bonds - New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969
This conference invites paper proposals from scholars in history, legal studies, human geography, anthropology, English, film studies, sociology, politics, and related disciplines. We welcome research...
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2026/04/broken-bonds---new-perspectives-on-marital-breakdown-in-the-english-common-law-world-1801-1969/
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Keith Grant
6 months ago
Fascinating look at the policing of fish and meat consumption (and fasting) in early modern England (and today), by
@kjkesselring.bsky.social
. Saving this for my lecture on fasting in Bittersweet Histories of Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate.
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Krista Kesselring
6 months ago
A new post for the new year: "A New Year’s Gift: Fish, Flesh, and ‘Unlawful Diet’ in Early Modern England"
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A New Year’s Gift: Fish, Flesh, and ‘Unlawful Diet’ in Early Modern England
Tracing the phenomenon of Protestant ‘fish days’, this post explores why some people in early modern England believed that changing their diet could promote a public good–and how they brought…
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/01/06/a-new-years-gift-fish-flesh-and-unlawful-diet-in-early-modern-england/
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A new post on the politics and legal regulation of food consumption from
@kjkesselring.bsky.social
: "A New Year's Gift: Fish, Flesh, and 'Unlawful Diet' in Early Modern England."
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A New Year’s Gift: Fish, Flesh, and ‘Unlawful Diet’ in Early Modern England
Tracing the phenomenon of Protestant ‘fish days’, this post explores why some people in early modern England believed that changing their diet could promote a public good–and how they brought…
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/01/06/a-new-years-gift-fish-flesh-and-unlawful-diet-in-early-modern-england/
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Hidetaka Hirota
6 months ago
I'm honored to serve as one of the cochairs of the Program Committee for the 2026 American Society for Legal History Conference in Banff, Canada! The CFP is now available. Please consider submitting a proposal!
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2026 Annual Meeting Call for Papers | American Society for Legal History
Call for Papers 2026 American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting (November 12 - 14, 2026) The Program Committee of the American Society for Legal History invites proposals for the 2026 meeting t...
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🇨🇦 Katherine D. Watson 🇬🇧
6 months ago
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.
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Murder, Medicine, Money: A Met Police—Home Office Dispute, 1889-90
By Cassie Watson; posted 26 December 2025. In the wake of the Thames Torso Murders (1887–89), the Jack the Ripper killings of autumn 1888, and several subsequent unsolved murders that were thought …
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/12/26/murder-medicine-money-a-met-police-home-office-dispute-1889-90/
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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'
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Murder, Medicine, Money: A Met Police—Home Office Dispute, 1889-90
By Cassie Watson; posted 26 December 2025. In the wake of the Thames Torso Murders (1887–89), the Jack the Ripper killings of autumn 1888, and several subsequent unsolved murders that were thought …
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/12/26/murder-medicine-money-a-met-police-home-office-dispute-1889-90/
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Brodie Waddell
7 months ago
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:
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Kiran Mehta
6 months ago
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.
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Prison reform from below: London, c.1780–1830*
Abstract. This article explores the history of the English prison reform movement from ‘below’ – that is, from the perspective of prison inmates. By highli
https://academic.oup.com/histres/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hisres/htaf032/8381389?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=histres&utm_medium=email
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British History Online
7 months ago
This is a great post, looking at death, law, mapping, and the physical book itself.
#History
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Miriam Posner
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Really neat example of how everything about an object—binding, foxing, water damage, annotations—can help us understand it.
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A new guest post by Helen Rutherford: 'Mapping Death: The Atlas of Victorian Coroners' Districts'
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Mapping Death: The Atlas of Victorian Coroners’ Districts
In this guest post, Helen Rutherford explores what a unique atlas of Victorian coroners’ districts might tell us about technologies of knowledge and death investigation.
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/12/11/mapping-death-the-atlas-of-victorian-coroners-districts/
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New post by
@sarabutler.bsky.social
: 'Bracton and the History of Emotions':
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Bracton and the History of Emotions
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 30 November 2025. Even though medievalist Barbara Rosenwein was among the first group of English-language historians to embrace emotion as an analytical construct, medieva…
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/11/30/ibracton-i-and-the-history-of-emotions/
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New guest post by Susannah Wilson, on homicide, forensic psychology, and perceptions of criminal culpability in late 19th century France:
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The Body by the Canal: The Abduction and Murder of Henriette Barbey in 1882
In this guest post, Susannah Wilson gives a snapshot of the killing and trial at the centre of her new book on forensic psychology and female violence: ‘A Most Quiet Murder: Maternity, Afflic…
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/11/20/the-body-by-the-canal-the-abduction-and-murder-of-henriette-barbey-in-1882/
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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦
8 months ago
Fantastic new post by Krista Kesselring!
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Crime, Culpability, and the Devil in the Details
Did claims of having fallen for the devil’s seductions heighten or lessen perceptions of a person’s guilt in early modern English legal processes?
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/10/27/crime-culpability-and-the-devil-in-the-details/
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What if the Devil made them do it? A new post by
@kjkesselring.bsky.social
'Crime, Culpability, and the Devil in the Details'.
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Crime, Culpability, and the Devil in the Details
Did claims of having fallen for the devil’s seductions heighten or lessen perceptions of a person’s guilt in early modern English legal processes?
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/10/27/crime-culpability-and-the-devil-in-the-details/
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New post by
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and Carolyn Strange: "Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents"
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Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents
By Cassie Watson and Carolyn Strange; posted 23 September 2025. The prosecution and sentencing of the Australian ‘Mushroom Murderer’ to life in prison for the poisoning of three relatives and the a…
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/09/23/poisoning-crimes-and-the-mushroom-murderer-patterns-and-precedents/
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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦
10 months ago
My new post is up! Butler, "Resisting Visitation in Late Medieval England" (2025).
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Resisting Visitation in Late Medieval England
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 14 Aug. 2025. There is no medieval record more enjoyable to peruse than visitation returns. Although visitations developed over the course of the ninth century, it was not…
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/08/14/resisting-visitation-in-late-medieval-england/
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New post by
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Resisting Visitation in Late Medieval England
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 14 Aug. 2025. There is no medieval record more enjoyable to peruse than visitation returns. Although visitations developed over the course of the ninth century, it was not…
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/08/14/resisting-visitation-in-late-medieval-england/
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Krista Kesselring
12 months ago
My new post
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: 'Arresting Developments', on the abduction of an heiress in 1702 and the dangers of arrests.
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Arresting Developments
Beginning with the abduction of the young heiress Pleasant Rawlins in 1702, this post discusses how arrests were abused and resisted in 17th and 18th-century England.
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/07/14/arresting-developments/
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'Arresting Developments': a new post, on the abuses and dangers of arrests in 17th and 18th-century England:
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Arresting Developments
Beginning with the abduction of the young heiress Pleasant Rawlins in 1702, this post discusses how arrests were abused and resisted in 17th and 18th-century England.
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/07/14/arresting-developments/
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How and why do forms of assault change with wider socio-legal changes? New post from
@drkdwatson.bsky.social
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Tackling the ‘Assault Deficit’
By Cassie Watson; posted 27 June 2025. In my previous post I argued that assault should be seen as an important avenue of research by crime and legal historians, but noted that it is usually more d…
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/06/27/tackling-the-assault-deficit/
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Daniel F Gosling
about 1 year ago
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.
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Browse records of other archives | The National ArchivesThe National ArchivesThe National ArchivesOpen Government LicenceGOV.UK
The official archive of the UK government. Our vision is to lead and transform information management, guarantee the survival of today's information for tomorrow and bring history to life for everyone...
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Krista Kesselring
about 1 year ago
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
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Call for papers: Crime and Conjugality in Europe, pre-1800
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2025/event---call-for-papers-crime-and-conjugality-in-europe-pre-1800-.html
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A new post from
@sarabutler.bsky.social
: 'All Bastards Are Free?'
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All Bastards are Free: The Medieval Origins of the Common Law Rule
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 16 May 2025. Medieval illustration of men harvesting wheat with reaping-hooks or sickles, on a calendar page for August. Queen Mary’s Psalter (Ms. Royal 2. B. VII), …
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Chloë Kennedy
about 1 year ago
Now available as a (potentially affordable) paperback
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Brodie Waddell
about 1 year ago
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
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Paulina Kewes
about 1 year ago
Never miss anything by
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A new post, on the end of the infamous Court of Star Chamber and its afterlife:
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The End(s) of a Lawless Court
Why and how did the Court of Star Chamber come to be seen as a lawless court? And did the act that abolished the court in 1641 end the lawless discretion people feared in it?
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/04/22/the-ends-of-a-lawless-court/
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A new post from
@drkdwatson.bsky.social
on why and how to bring assault into studies of the history of violence:
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Investigating the ‘Assault Deficit’
By Cassie Watson; posted 30 March 2025. According to Robert Shoemaker, quoting an eighteenth-century observer, “the vague legal definition of assault meant that ‘any injury done to a man in an angr…
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Had a lovely time chatting about my new book on the history of imprisonment in London with
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Kiran Mehta, "To Detain or to Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750–1840" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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