@jhmccunn.bsky.social #LegalHistory

I'm very excited to see Gwen Seabourne (@gwenseabourne.bsky.social) and Joanna McCunn's Insiders and Outsiders in the History of Law now available to pre-order. Featuring new research by me on the Chevalier d'Eon uolpress.co.uk/book/insider...

I have a chapter in this book on the (constitutional) effect of Brexit on Scotland. I'm sure it will surprise no-one that I don't think it has been good: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

New vicarious liability case, this time the Privy Council, but lead judgment by Lord Burrows and new(sish) Justice Dame Amanda Yip. BXB applied (unsurprisingly) but clear evidence found that course of employment test satisfied: jcpc.uk/cases/jcpc-2...

Great (if grim) snapshot of attitudes to capital punishment and extras in 18th C Bristol: petitioners less bothered about the gibbeting itself, more bothered about effects on delicate sensibilities and rental value. #Bristol #LegalHistory

📻 Prof Helen Fulton (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) joins BBC Radio 4 #InOurTime to discuss the impact of the Norman invasion on the people and land of Wales with Dr Rhun Emlyn, Emeritus Prof Huw Pryce & Misha Glenny Listen to the full programme 👉 brnw.ch/21x2S1i @bristolcms.bsky.social

'Performing Pilgrimage to the Lourdes of Wales' by @drkathrynhurlock.bsky.social is out now! This is the first scholarly study of Britain’s oldest pilgrimage site in continuous use, St Winefride’s Well, from the medieval period to the modern day. 📚️ www.uwp.co.uk/book/perform...

The new blog post by @kjkesselring.bsky.social examines a 16th-century statute with direct relevance to the present day: The Most Excellent Things are the King’s? The Case of Mines (1568) legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/04/22/t...

Pleased to see this out – a translation by Frédéric Demers of a piece I'd published back in 2011 on the Crown’s ownership of enslaved Grenadians in the wake of Fedon’s Rebellion in 1795. (1/2) www.erudit.org/fr/revues/ha...

My new blog post introduces one of the most extraordinary 18th-century criminals I've ever come across! Memorable Monikers: Dick the Devil legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/03/27/m...

Bristol Radical History Festival, 25th & 26th April, program announced: www.brh.org.uk/site/event-s... #RadicalHistory #History

What do Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and the 19th-century Divorce Court have in common? Murder, of course. I chatted with @cacrampton.bsky.social on the Shedunnit podcast about how divorce law shaped golden age detective fiction 🔍 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #LegalHistory #DivorceHistory

I’ll be talking about my recent research on the Bayeux Tapestry in a public lecture here in Bristol on Thursday 30 April. Attendance is FREE and includes a drinks reception 🍷 Everybody welcome! Please join us if you can and help spread the word! #medievalsky #skystorians

Learn more about the discovery process behind our current exhibition, Love Letters. From structured research to serendipitous finds — three specialists and a volunteer share the thrill of uncovering heartfelt emotions centuries later: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

Essays on the History of Equity – published today with Hart 🎉 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/essays-on...

- Insiders and Outsiders in the History of Law by @gwenseabourne.bsky.social & @jhmccunn.bsky.social - Literature for Change by Charles Burdett, @drjoeford.bsky.social, Godela Weiss-Sussex & @naswells.bsky.social

#LegalHistory

New from me in @parergon.bsky.social "Making Excuses: The Diplomatic Anxieties of Edward I of England". Hit me up if you want to read it but don't have access. #MedievalSky

Publication day! For those interested in bankruptcy and feminism, and other cool subjects, check out this new collection - out today! @livunihss.bsky.social @livunislsj.bsky.social

Gair y Dydd: SERCH geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... - Teimlad o hoffter neu diriondeb tuag at berson, cariad, chwant a thrachwant. Saethai Dafydd ap Gwilym 'saethau serch' at ferch, fel rhyw giwpid, er mwyn dangos ei serch tuag ati. A fyddwch chi'n dathlu Dydd Santes Dwynwen dros y Sul?💘

Explore the history of Bangor Cathedral and hear from Dr Shaun McGuinness, editor of Bangor Episcopal Acta, 1092-1306, in this BBC Sounds episode to celebrate the cathedral's 1500 anniversary. 🎧 Listen here:

If you are in Bristol over the next couple of days. Pop into Central Library and catch the Medieval Manuscripts exhibition whilst you can. Ends Friday 19 December!

📣Today we're launching the #CfP for the 1-day conference 'Broken Bonds: New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969' online & in-person 20 April 2026 #history #familylaw #divorce CfP deadline is 2 Feb 2026 See 👇for details. www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

#LegalHistory #BristolHistory This, from Evan Jones @bristolcms.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social is interesting on humour, Bristol, maps, gallows(es) ... bristolrecordsociety.org/stories-from...

Favourite musical page turn of the year - last verse of the best Advent hymn. Descant time. Top Gs in a medieval chapel. #LordMayorsChapel #Bristol

Love medieval manuscripts? Love public libraries? Love Bristol? Don’t miss this FREE exhibition: bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=250...

Much cooler than UK banknotes.

William Jenkins was the General Manager of Consett Iron Works c.1860s. His eldest daughter Edith Rosina married Sir Thomas Oliver, a Newcastle-based surgeon who went on to campaign vociferously against disease & illness caused by heavy industry. I often wonder about their Sunday dinner conversation!

Clever advertising image, in an evil, cancerous, sort of way ... #WillsTobacco

Very proud of my former PhD student, Dan Booker, whose important study on women and the law of the exchequer has just been published by @ihrlibrary.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

The Moving Labour Collective is pleased to invite applications for our biennial Labour Law Summer Camp, taking place in Malmö, Sweden, from 14–17 June 2026. Applications close on 1 December—please feel free to reach out with any questions!

Bristol Record Society's latest: archive.org/details/bris...

Now open for booking: OU Law School's legal histories conference. This year's theme is 'moments of rupture' and we have an exciting range of speakers, topics, jurisdictions and periods. 20-21 November, online, free. Programme and booking at the link.

An excellent #LegalHistory initiative from my #Bristol colleagues. Do have a look!

Scary #LegalHistory: Nothing particularly Halloween-y in my own research, but feel moved to point out, in honour of the occasion, the is an excellent bit of magic- and witch- related content in the latest Selden Society volume (Sir John Baker's 6th part of Coke's Notebooks), p. 1807.

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...

Some new open access #LegalHistory: inc. some thoughts from me on medieval 'petty treason'. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Scho...

Two more days to get your abstracts in!

Here’s something to look forward to! In celebration of the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue / Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş - 📚 Bristol Central Library are having an exhibition! 🗓️ 4-18 December

Researching a legal moment that was supposed to change everything - whether it did or not? The call for papers for 'Moments of Rupture' is open until 23 October! Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster. #LegalHistory #cfp

Exciting news! 📣 The CMS' own Dr Sig Sønnesyn (@sigsonnesyn.bsky.social) is giving a lecture tomorrow (Tuesday) on 'Meaning, Intelligibility, and Fusing Horizons: Medieval Thought as a Case Study' at 3:30pm in G.HO1, Arts Complex. All welcome. We can't wait! 😀 #medievalsky #skystorians

A #Bristol Libraries event of #LegalHistory and #History interest tomorrow: bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=235...

Join us for this event on Friday. Hybrid. www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

Hwæt?! The amazing Old English Reading Group is BACK and with a new friend?!? Join Hattie and Co for Old English Reading Group at 3pm Friday in Hattie’s office, followed by the brand new Old Norse Reading Group at 4pm! No prior knowledge or experience needed, and everybody welcome!

We're so excited for the first Centre for Medieval Studies Research Seminar of the year! Join us on Thursday at 4pm, with our CMS Welcome Party to follow straight after! All welcome! We hope to see you there! #medievalsky #skystorians

Congratulations Paul! 🍾

🤩 Check out the shiny new website of Bristol's world-class Centre for Medieval Studies (@bristolcms.bsky.social), home to over 35 full-time medievalists and over 160 research students and research associates: medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🤩 @uobartsmatter.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians

'They [maps] are a great research tool and are also equally accessible to people without skills or training.' 🗺️ Dr Evan Jones (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) comments on the addition of historic street names to Bristol's Know Your Place interactive city map for BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A new semester means a new exciting round of CMS seminars! Here's a sneak peek of what we have to look forward to over the next few weeks!

This Fri, 19 September: Join Paul Dryburgh, medieval collections specialist @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, for "England's first colony: medieval Ireland, 1171-1500". An overview of English intervention in Ireland and its role in the political development of the British and Irish isles.