It's published! Histories of women legal historians, edited with @loreldridge.bsky.social and @dremilyireland.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...

HMP Berwyn, the UK's largest prison, was once presented as an advance for the Welsh language. @robdjones.bsky.social and I argue that it’s been a categorical failure by that measure, posing troubling questions for Welsh language rights more widely: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Essay competition below for UG students with an interest in women & legal history! Please feel free to share with interested persons and contacts.

"Bowie was particularly fascinated by [18th Century] crime and punishment" - BREAKING NEWS: Bowie was a legal historian. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves. If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

@robdjones.bsky.social and I are guest editing a special issue of @howardjournalcj.bsky.social which explores the rights of prisoners in the UK and elsewhere. It follows an @slsauk.bsky.social seminar held in Liverpool in 2023, and features a brilliant set of legal academics and criminologists.

On my way to a workshop on Gender, History, and Law, hypothesising that the discourse on Euro ‘22 has the real answer to Baker’s ‘Why The History of English Law Has Not Been Finished’: