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...

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!

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...

Delighted that this edited collection is now available for pre-order! www.routledge.com/9781032873756

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

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...

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...

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: consistory.org/2018/05/14/b...

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

Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Kesselring, "Mapping Durham’s Medieval Sanctuary Seekers" (2018). legalhistorymiscellany.com/2018/07/02/m... via @legalmiscellany

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... 🗃️

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...

Very excited to be speaking at this workshop!

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' 🦹‍♀️

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

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

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-...

Available now! The Reputation of the Roman Merchant! press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-...

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...

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.

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...

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-...

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...

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 🗃️ #history #earlymod

'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...

Misty by Bristol harbour this morning!

New Legal History Miscellany Post: TNA's The Legal Records Jamboree! legalhistorymiscellany.com/2023/10/12/l...

This is so great!

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.

You can sign up now for this Women in Legal History networking event - open to everyone! www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/liv...

New book by Niamh Howlin - her work is always excellent, so promises to be a treat.

1) The interpretation of legal documents in early modern England 2) Lawyers use language in the same way as witches

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...

just stumbled on this #EarlyModern lecture footage