


‘Foul Facts’ and the ‘Pretended Marriage’ of Jane Puckering (1649)

“Barbarous Determination”: The Criminal Career of John Orrell

Who killed Licoricia of Winchester? A Medieval Murder Mystery

Lawless Women in the Court of Star Chamber

An Episode of Rough Music in Scotland, March 1842

The Steelyard, Hansard Merchants, and a “Misliving” Singlewoman in Late Medieval London

Mystic Fictions and Lawless Fantasies at the End of the First Elizabethan Age

“Mute by the visitation of God, and Guilty!” The trials of John Ferriday at Salford, 1825

When Women Went to Court: Gendered Agency in European Legal Systems, 1300-1800

Decriminalizing Heresy

Forgive us our Trespasses: Reconciliation in Later Medieval England

Women’s Executions in Early Modern England

Doubt, Decency, and the History of English Witchcraft

Where’s The Harm?

Christened Cockerels and Heretical Hill-Diggers: Treasure Trove in Medieval England

Alito’s Leaked Draft Majority Opinion and the Medieval History of Abortion

Divorce and the Two Ladies Powys

The Dark Side of Victorian Policing

Gaol and Gaol-breaking in Early Modern Ireland

Performing Anti-clericalism: Rioting in Church and against Clergymen in Late Medieval England

Should ‘Witches’ Receive Posthumous Pardons?

Serial Homicide before ‘Serial Killers’: British Poisoners

Nobody Messes with Godfrey Giffard, Bishop of Worcester: Punishing the Violators of Sanctuary

The Court of Star Chamber’s Record(s) and Reports

Vitriol to Corrosive Fluid: ‘Acid’ Assault in the Twentieth Century

“Horys, strumppettes and fyssenagges”: Defamation in the Courts of Later Medieval England

Mary Hockmore’s Lawyer: Marriage Breakdown and Women’s Rights in Seventeenth-Century England

Justice and (Mis)Fortune in the Wake of Wyatt’s Revolt

Early Acid Throwing in the British Isles: The Insolence of Weavers

Freedom comes at a Price: The Medieval History of Bail

Domestic Violence and Rough Justice in Star Chamber (1612)

Victorian Crime News: Evidence Which Cannot Err or Deceive?

Exits, Entries and the Allure of the Runaway Nun

Surviving an Execution in Medieval England and Modern Ohio: Miracle, or Incompetence?

Murder in Sanctuary: Liberty Jurisdictions and the Prosecution of Felony in Early Tudor England

A New Year’s Gift and the Power to Pardon

Highway Robbery at Highbury: The Murder of PC Daly in 1842

Trouble with the In-laws? Marriage and Murder in Thirteenth-Century England

Mary Vezey, Sarah Chapone, and the Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives (1732-35)

Coventry’s Act and Malicious Injury

Law Enforcement Officials and the Limits of Violence in Medieval England

The Laws of Moses…and of England?

Online Archives Unlocked: What’s in it for Crime Historians?

Carts, Ships, and Trains: Abusing the Deodand

The Ownership of Swans in English History: Does the Queen Own all the Swans?

Gaol Fever Stories

Can You Steal a Peacock? Animals in Early Modern Law

King Henry of Scotland’s Pardon of the Earl of Argyll, March 1566

Animal Victims of Crime

Hearing and Speaking the Law in Medieval England

What’s Love Got to Do with It? Marriage in Late Medieval England and the Low Countries

Disparaging Marriage in Early Modern England

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

Star Chamber as a Marriage Court

Perjury, Wager of Law, and Debt in the Elizabethan Star Chamber

Unsolved Early Modern Murder Mysteries

Very Serious Pecuniary Loss and Inconvenience: A Jury’s Plea

How to tell a Serf from a Slave in Medieval England

The Long Arm of the Law Cut Short

Elizabethan Witch Trials: More Evidence (and a Map)

Could Priests Claim Sanctuary in Medieval England?

Apprehending Early Modern Fugitives

Putting Faces to Names: Illustrated Crime Reports in the Late Victorian Press

Femme Sole Status: A Failed Feminist Dream?

The Very Image of Justice? Star Chamber Records and the Art of Punishment

Prosecuting Homicide on the Coroner’s Inquisition

“Woe unto those who know not how to syllabificate”: The Languages of Medieval Law

Slavery and Cartwright’s Case before Somerset

Execution Delayed: Some Scottish Examples

From Blue Lobsters to Friendly Giants: Visual Representations of the Police, c.1840–1880

A Jewish Woman’s Appeal of Murder in Thirteenth-Century England

Mapping Durham’s Medieval Sanctuary Seekers

Murder Confessions 1715–1900: A Preliminary Typology

Citizen v. John Foreigner: The Politics of Inclusion in Medieval England’s Urban Centers

Star Chamber Stories: Using Criminal Law to Criminal Ends in Early Modern London

In their own words? Criminal Depositions and the Voices of the Past

Persons under the Law? Medieval Animal Rights

Star Chamber Stories: Elizabethan Witchcraft, Sorcery, and a Very Troubled Marriage

Apostasy, Sanctuary, and Spin: The Canons of Waltham and Sanctuary at St. Martin le Grand, 1430

Star Chamber Stories: Felons’ Labours

Thomas Scattergood: Forensic Toxicology in Victorian Yorkshire

Gunpowder, Peine forte et dure, and Medieval Penance

Impeaching the Queen of England (1643/4)

Acid Attacks in Nineteenth-Century Britain

From Game of Thrones to Steven Pinker: Just how Lawless were the Middle Ages?

Early Modern Coroners’ Inquests into Deaths in Custody

Mysterious Death: What Price the Medical Jurist?

Reading the Legal Record like a Physician

Treason in Shropshire in the Early Fifteenth Century: The Case of Sir Richard Lacon

Evil May Day, 1517: Prosecuting Anti-Immigrant Rioters in Tudor London

Good Friday Pardons in England

Doom for Demembring: Assault in Scots Law

The Flames of Emergency

When did the Poor become Deserving or Undeserving?

A Proposal to Enslave Petty Offenders (1621)

Oxford: Crime, Law and the University

Suffering Indifference: Pre-Reformation Approaches to Sacred People and Sacred Space

Licensed or Licentious? Divorce with Remarriage in Reformation England
