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The Body by the Canal: The Abduction and Murder of Henriette Barbey in 1882
Between the Lines and Off the Record: A Sampling of Shorthand Notations from George Treby’s Middle Temple Notebooks, 1667-72
Hogarth’s Cruelty Reconsidered
Wicked Little Letters and So Much More
Trump v Bealknap: Echoes of 6 January in 1381
“Betrayed, Seduced, Trepanned, or Cruelly Driven Into Sin”: The London Female Penitentiary
On Delight in Legal History
Legal Records Jamboree: 4. Law Reports, Legislation, and Other Legal Records
Legal Records Jamboree: 3. Verdicts
Legal Records Jamboree: 2. Proofs
Legal Records Jamboree: 1. Pleadings
On ‘Raptus’, Quitclaims, and Precedents in Staundon vs Chaucer-Chaumpaigne: An Afterword
Uncovering City Peacemakers in the Papal States and Venetian Mainland
When Women Went to Court: Gendered Agency in European Legal Systems, 1300-1800
Decriminalizing Heresy
Women’s Executions in Early Modern England
Christened Cockerels and Heretical Hill-Diggers: Treasure Trove in Medieval England
Gaol and Gaol-breaking in Early Modern Ireland
Mary Hockmore’s Lawyer: Marriage Breakdown and Women’s Rights in Seventeenth-Century England
Exits, Entries and the Allure of the Runaway Nun
Murder in Sanctuary: Liberty Jurisdictions and the Prosecution of Felony in Early Tudor England
The Ownership of Swans in English History: Does the Queen Own all the Swans?
King Henry of Scotland’s Pardon of the Earl of Argyll, March 1566
What’s Love Got to Do with It? Marriage in Late Medieval England and the Low Countries
Perjury, Wager of Law, and Debt in the Elizabethan Star Chamber
From Blue Lobsters to Friendly Giants: Visual Representations of the Police, c.1840–1880
Apostasy, Sanctuary, and Spin: The Canons of Waltham and Sanctuary at St. Martin le Grand, 1430
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