


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

Dead Drunk or Just Deviant? Homicide and Alcohol in Wales, 1730-1914

Anti-Intellectualism and the Invisible Man

The Short History of the Infidelity Defence in England
