Promising 'a detailed discussion of the history of chancel repair liability' - a #LawCommission consultation for hardcore nerdy #LegalHistory and #LandLaw fans to get their teeth into! lawcom.gov.uk/project/chan...

Charitable ... up to a point. 18th C commemoration of a will providing for poor children ... but only 'lawfully begotten' ones. Church of St Ellyw, Llanelieu. #Charity #Succession #LegalHistory

Intro to proceedings of 5th British Legal History Conference (1981). Take that, pre-1980s legal historians ... older #LegalHistory 'the Cinderella of the world of historical scholarship' and a 'quasi-intellectual exercise' which might o might not be preferred to gardening ...

If you’re joining us in Bristol next week (!) and you’re not yet in the starter pack, do let us know. #RenSoc25 #EarlyModern #Skystorians

#Crime #Marriage #LegalHistory #Medieval #EarlyModern CFP for something to look forward to in 2026 - pass it on! bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2025/event---call-for-papers-crime-and-conjugality-in-europe-pre-1800-.html

Reform UK appears, from their manifesto, to believe that there are misdemeanor offences in English law. Was the Criminal Law Act 1967 s.1 passed in vain?

Signing up for the book after the book after next ... all being well, due to hit bookshops (if they still exist) in 2027 ... #LegalHistory

The next British Legal History Conference in Nottingham, 2026: www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/gro... Looking forward to all the #LegalHistory

One for all interested in the importance of history, pehaps particularly #Bristol people - including our next cohort of #LegalHistory students.

Today in 'how to blame the (late) #medieval period for modern ills ... local news goes off on one about Perkin Warbeck when discussing modern financial scams. Remember: 'Always double-check the identity of someone claiming to be from a bank, HMRC [or a Yorkist prince]'... www.msn.com/en-gb/money/...

More #LegalHistory tourism, Michaelhouse Escley, Herefs - 17th C testator Meredith Maddy wanted to make sure his money for the poor was not going to various 'dogs and swine'. #HappyChristmasUnlessYouAreANotoriousDrunkard #Charity

#OTD 1580, South East England was struck by the largest earthquake in two hundred years. Dr Andrew Thrush recently explored this phenomenon on the #HistParl website, including why citizens thought it happened and how they responded to it:

My latest blog post asks why historians tend not to study the crime of (common) assault: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/03/30/i...

Having spoken about 'petty treason' multiple times over the last few years, it's nice finally to be correcting the proofs for an actual publication of (part of) the research. #LegalHistory

Excellent legal precision here! #LegalHistory

A new post from @sarabutler.bsky.social on the @legalmiscellany.bsky.social blog, with interesting observations about linguistic legacies in English law: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/02/20/w...

Spotlight on the Gordon Riots (though really I took the opportunity to spend over half the video talking about King's Bench plea rolls). www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/st...

CONFERENCE: Grotian Law and Modernity at the dawn of a new age. 400 years of the Jure Belli Ac Pacis 1625-2025 (The Hague: @unileiden.bsky.social , 19-20 JUN 2025) esclh.blogspot.com/2025/02/conf...

Centre for law and history research now on Bluesky

Slade's Case in two lines? Here you go ...

Bring back two line verse summaries of cases!

We're very excited to announce that registration is now 🎉OPEN 🎉 for the @bristolcms.bsky.social PGR conference! Register using the QR code in the poster, or via this link: shop.bris.ac.uk/conferences-... We can't wait to see you there! 😀

Medieval legal historians have all the fun! #LegalHistory

And next, we are getting a bit methodological, and chatting to some nice historians from @uobrishistory.bsky.social www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2...

Last week was the launch of a fine volume on 'intractable factual uncertainty, by two of our centre's stars.

We are still slightly recovering from the British Legal History Conference in 2024, but activities are once more up and running, and it has been great to welcome a new co-director, Dr Gauri Pillai.

This is somewhat 'under construction', but it is high time we had a presence here, so hello Bluesky, and especially #LegalHistory chums out there! Our web page is at: www.bristol.ac.uk/law/centre-for-law-and-history-research/