Joanna McCunn
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Legal historian, cake fan (she/her)
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Gwen Seabourne
4 months ago
Occasional moments of nerdy
#LegalHistory
delight ... just reminded, when reading a chapter by David Seipp, of the magnificent Year Book moment in 1430 (1430.007) when a serjeant decided barking like a dog was the best response to his opponent's argument ...
www.bu.edu/phpbin/lawye...
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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🌈 no human is illegal
7 months ago
fancy a bit of legal history, law and literature, and practice-as-research? come to my @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded workshop at
@sheffieldcems.bsky.social
on the 23rd May. featuring libels, process-serving, facsimile documents, lewd remarks and document eating!
tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv
please share widely!
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Our edited collection is out and we have a very exciting book launch planned for 13 February! Sign up here to attend online or in person:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1106423846...
9 months ago
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Delighted that this edited collection is now available for pre-order!
www.routledge.com/9781032873756
11 months ago
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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦
over 1 year ago
Its Miscellany Monday! Here's one of my old posts, '“Woe unto those who know not how to syllabificate”: The Languages of Medieval Law' (2018):
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2018/11/09/w...
via @legalmiscellany
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“Woe unto those who know not how to syllabificate”: The Languages of Medieval Law
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 9 November 2018. When John of Salisbury (ca. 1115-1180) decried the dishonesty of lawyers in his Policraticus, he targeted the incomprehensibility of their legalese, complain...
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2018/11/09/woe-unto-those-who-know-not-how-to-syllabificate-the-languages-of-medieval-law/
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Dr Kathleen Neal
over 1 year ago
Because of the looming UK election, the national archives (a government department) is in "purdah" and can't publicise this upcoming lecture... But you can!
chiswickcalendar.co.uk/event/pipe-r...
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Pipe Roll Society Lecture - The National Archives - The Chiswick Calendar Events
Join The National Archives for ‘Pipe rolls – publishing the ‘most splendid’ records’. In 1711, the pipe rolls were described as the ‘most splendid’ records in the royal archives, next […]
https://chiswickcalendar.co.uk/event/pipe-roll-society-lecture-the-national-archives/
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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🌈 no human is illegal
over 1 year ago
hello, I have finally joined this site, just in time to promote my rather exciting workshop I'm running
@sheffieldcems.bsky.social
on June 7th! we have seven exciting PGR and ECR papers, and a practice-as-research workshop investigating the experience of arrest!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experienci...
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Experiencing Law, Government and Politics: a collaborative workshop
A collaborative, interdisciplinary workshop exploring early modern law, government and politics through new approaches.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experiencing-law-government-and-politics-a-collaborative-workshop-tickets-902297745847?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Julie Hardwick
over 1 year ago
The great Shannon McSheffrey on a fascinating case in the London Consistory in 1522 of an
#intersex
person whose husband sued to annul their marriage. 5 midwives testified in some detail that Margaret had both a vagina & a penis:
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Christopher Bradley c Margaret Bradley
I have just found this highly unusual case of an apparent intersex person named Margaret Bradley of Hackney, Middlesex, who in 1522 was sued by her/their* husband Christopher to annul their marriage. ...
https://consistory.org/2018/05/14/bradley-c-bradley/
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David Chan Smith
over 1 year ago
The CFP for the Legal Histories of Empire is out! Taking place in Toronto in July 2025 the event gathers together researchers from around the world studying law and
#empires
. This time there is a special stream for “illegality in empire” ! Spread the word:
lhbe.org
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Legal Histories of Empire
scholarship - legal history - empire - conference - 2021
https://lhbe.org
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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦
over 1 year ago
Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Kesselring, "Mapping Durham’s Medieval Sanctuary Seekers" (2018).
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2018/07/02/m...
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Mapping Durham’s Medieval Sanctuary Seekers
Just how far did people seeking sanctuary in late medieval England flee, and why?
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2018/07/02/mapping-durhams-medieval-sanctuary-seekers/
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will o’the wisp pooley
over 1 year ago
How and where did people learn how to litigate in early modern England? Great new post from Laura Flanigan on the improvised and hoarded legal knowledge found in the scrappy “personal notebooks of estate administrators, rural gentry, and urban merchants”
manyheadedmonster.com/2024/04/30/c...
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Commonplace Legal Knowledge in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century England
This post is part of our 'The People and the Law' Online Symposium, a series exploring early modern English legal sources. Laura Flannigan is a Junior Research Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford Univ...
https://manyheadedmonster.com/2024/04/30/commonplace-legal-knowledge-in-fifteenth-and-sixteenth-century-england/#more-7912
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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦
over 1 year ago
My book, Pain, Penance, and Protest: Peine Forte et Dure in Medieval England (CUP: 2022) is now out in PAPERBACK for just $34.99! Whoot!
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
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Pain, Penance, and Protest | British history 1066-1450
https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/history/british-history-1066-1450/pain-penance-and-protest-peine-forte-et-dure-medieval-england?format=PB
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Very excited to be speaking at this workshop!
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over 1 year ago
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Emily Brand
over 1 year ago
A moment of appreciation, please, for 18th-century tearaway & thief Mary White, who responded to arrest by exposing her breast & squirting milk in her captors' faces In court she 'licked' (slapped?) her accuser, spat on the magistrate's seat & refused to give any name but 'Mary Cut-&-Come-Again' 🦹♀️
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Incredibly excited that booking is now open for the 26th British Legal History Conference! Join us in Bristol for 'Insiders and Outsiders in the History of Law', 3-6 July 2024. More details and registration on our website:
www.bristol.ac.uk/british-legal-history-conference-2024
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British Legal History Conference 2024
The University of Bristol Law School is delighted to host the 26th British Legal History Conference, which will take place between 3 and 6 July 2024. The conference theme is 'Insiders and Outsiders in...
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/british-legal-history-conference-2024
over 1 year ago
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History of Parliament
almost 2 years ago
New blog for
#HistParl
📣 Chloe Challender discusses the sanitary provisions provided for women in the Palace of Westminster during the 19th century. Find out more:
ow.ly/bz7h50QqiQ2
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The smallest room in the House
Women have been accessing the Palace of Westminster for centuries, yet sanitary facilities have not always been provided. Chloe Challender, a PhD candidate working on a collaborative project between t...
https://ow.ly/bz7h50QqiQ2
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Russell Sandberg
almost 2 years ago
It’s time to banish any January blues because the next Law and History Network webinar takes place next week. All are welcome as we hear from the awesome
@folukeifejola.bsky.social
Book at
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/f-adebisi-...
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Jane Sancinito
almost 2 years ago
Available now! The Reputation of the Roman Merchant!
press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-...
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Chris Dale
almost 2 years ago
You perhaps don't need to be a lawyer to find this judgment interesting. German HE bomb dropped in a field in 1942. University halls built on field in 2012. Army detonates bomb in 2021. Insurers rely on war damage exclusion. What caused the damage?
bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...
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Tim Hitchcock
almost 2 years ago
Really pleased to announce the launch of a new version (9.0) of the Old Bailey Online
oldbaileyonline.org
. There is lots of new functionality, and a thoroughly redesigned front and back end.
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Dr Laura Flannigan
almost 2 years ago
Morning everyone - my book on royal justice, the Court of Requests, and the early Tudors is out NOW for those with online access! Print publication to follow shortly...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
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Lukasz Korporowicz
almost 2 years ago
In a week, this amazing collection edited by Cerian Griffiths and me will be released by Routledge. More than two years of hard work. It was worth to see the results of the work of fifteenth authors from four continents!
www.routledge.com/English-Law-...
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Krista Kesselring
almost 2 years ago
In this guest post, Richard Ireland explores a set of 19th-century courtroom sketches and the delight to be found in legal history research:
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2023/11/13/o...
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On Delight in Legal History
In this guest post, Richard Ireland posits a place for *delight* in legal history, examining 'sketches taken from life' in a nineteenth-century circuit court.
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2023/11/13/on-delight-in-legal-history/
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David Chan Smith
almost 2 years ago
The final records of the database of smuggling prosecutions in 1720s Britain are now uploaded in the Dark Markets Observatory. Discover who was smuggling, what happened to them, and sometimes why - criminal gangs, international networks, the wild world of #18thc
#smuggling
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#history
#earlymod
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Smuggling Database | davidchansmith
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Krista Kesselring
almost 2 years ago
'Under the colour of conjuring' - a new post on frauds, fakes, and magic in the Court of Star Chamber.
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2023/10/31/c...
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Conjuring and Counterfeits in the Court of Star Chamber (1605)
What happened when an alleged sorcercer appeared in Star Chamber?
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2023/10/31/conjuring-and-counterfeits-in-the-court-of-star-chamber-1605/
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Misty by Bristol harbour this morning!
almost 2 years ago
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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦
about 2 years ago
New Legal History Miscellany Post: TNA's The Legal Records Jamboree!
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2023/10/12/l...
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Laura Gowing
about 2 years ago
This is so great!
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Shannon McSheffrey
about 2 years ago
More fun from the London Skinners' accounts: a regular expense is for the "carying away" of shit from latrines. Here in 1507 it cost 21 s 4d (16 "tonnes," 16d per tonne [~4 cu. m]). A man was paid 12d to "wache and to ouer see theym by ii nyghts"; & a new cover for the seat in the privy was 12d.
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You can sign up now for this Women in Legal History networking event - open to everyone!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/liv...
about 2 years ago
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Donal Coffey
about 2 years ago
New book by Niamh Howlin - her work is always excellent, so promises to be a treat.
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1) The interpretation of legal documents in early modern England 2) Lawyers use language in the same way as witches
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about 2 years ago
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Kathleen E. Kennedy
about 2 years ago
Will start real promo on all channels tomorrow, but heads-up booksky, public lecture, free, online 11 Oct. about how you use a book of hours to learn about a woman who lived in medieval Bristol.
www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/bristol-arch...
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Making History in Miniature: Isabella Ruddock-Clyve and Her Book
As the city celebrates 650 years since the granting of its county status, Bristol Archives and Bristol Central Library have teamed up to shed some light on some of our most beautiful and precious medi...
https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/bristol-archives/whats-on/making-history-in-miniature-isabella-ruddock-clyve-and-her-book/
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Dr Laura Sangha
about 2 years ago
just stumbled on this #EarlyModern lecture footage
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