Legal History Miscellany

September 23, 2018September 25, 2018 Cassie Watson

Execution Delayed: Some Scottish Examples

August 27, 2018August 27, 2018 legalhistorymiscellany

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

August 17, 2018August 17, 2018 Sara M. Butler

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

July 2, 2018 Krista Kesselring

Mapping Durham’s Medieval Sanctuary Seekers

June 7, 2018June 17, 2018 Cassie Watson

Murder Confessions 1715–1900: A Preliminary Typology

May 3, 2018June 17, 2018 Sara M. Butler

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

April 5, 2018June 17, 2018 Krista Kesselring

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

March 17, 2018June 17, 2018 Cassie Watson

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

February 19, 2018June 17, 2018 Sara M. Butler

Persons under the Law? Medieval Animal Rights

February 14, 2018June 17, 2018 Krista Kesselring

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

January 12, 2018June 17, 2018 legalhistorymiscellany

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

January 2, 2018June 17, 2018 Krista Kesselring

Star Chamber Stories: Felons’ Labours

December 19, 2017June 17, 2018 Cassie Watson

Thomas Scattergood: Forensic Toxicology in Victorian Yorkshire

November 21, 2017June 17, 2018 Sara M. Butler

Gunpowder, Peine forte et dure, and Medieval Penance

October 9, 2017October 10, 2017 Krista Kesselring

Impeaching the Queen of England (1643/4)

September 13, 2017December 16, 2017 Cassie Watson

Acid Attacks in Nineteenth-Century Britain

August 15, 2017August 15, 2017 Sara M. Butler

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

July 9, 2017July 9, 2017 Krista Kesselring

Early Modern Coroners’ Inquests into Deaths in Custody

June 11, 2017June 11, 2017 Cassie Watson

Mysterious Death: What Price the Medical Jurist?

May 19, 2017May 20, 2017 Sara M. Butler

Reading the Legal Record like a Physician

May 7, 2017May 7, 2017 legalhistorymiscellany

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

April 30, 2017 legalhistorymiscellany

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

April 14, 2017April 14, 2017 Krista Kesselring

Good Friday Pardons in England

March 25, 2017May 7, 2017 Cassie Watson

Doom for Demembring: Assault in Scots Law

March 16, 2017 legalhistorymiscellany

The Flames of Emergency

February 20, 2017February 20, 2017 Sara M. Butler

When did the Poor become Deserving or Undeserving?

January 10, 2017July 1, 2018 Krista Kesselring

A Proposal to Enslave Petty Offenders (1621)

December 21, 2016January 14, 2018 Cassie Watson

Oxford: Crime, Law and the University

November 17, 2016November 18, 2016 Sara M. Butler

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

October 23, 2016June 17, 2018 Krista Kesselring

Licensed or Licentious? Divorce with Remarriage in Reformation England

September 27, 2016February 19, 2018 Cassie Watson

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

August 22, 2016March 1, 2017 Sara M. Butler

Anti-Intellectualism and the Invisible Man

August 8, 2016June 17, 2018 Krista Kesselring

The Short History of the Infidelity Defence in England

July 30, 2016January 14, 2018 Cassie Watson

Death’s Gatekeepers: The Victorian Coroner’s Officer

July 24, 2016July 31, 2016 Krista Kesselring

Mrs. Bourne’s Case for a Divorce (1582)