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The cover of the atlas (HO 84/3) showing water damage and wear.
December 11, 2025December 11, 2025 legalhistorymiscellany

Mapping Death: The Atlas of Victorian Coroners’ Districts

November 20, 2025November 20, 2025 legalhistorymiscellany

The Body by the Canal: The Abduction and Murder of Henriette Barbey in 1882

March 12, 2025August 25, 2025 legalhistorymiscellany

Between the Lines and Off the Record: A Sampling of Shorthand Notations from George Treby’s Middle Temple Notebooks, 1667-72

Hogarth's The Reward of Cruelty
December 6, 2024 legalhistorymiscellany

Hogarth’s Cruelty Reconsidered

assize court book
April 3, 2024April 3, 2024 legalhistorymiscellany

Wicked Little Letters and So Much More

John Ball encouraging the peasant rebels of 1381
February 29, 2024March 6, 2024 legalhistorymiscellany

Trump v Bealknap: Echoes of 6 January in 1381

February 21, 2024 legalhistorymiscellany

“Betrayed, Seduced, Trepanned, or Cruelly Driven Into Sin”: The London Female Penitentiary

November 13, 2023November 13, 2023 legalhistorymiscellany

On Delight in Legal History

A Home Office report on 'lorry girl' menace (c. 1950s)
October 18, 2023October 18, 2023 legalhistorymiscellany

Legal Records Jamboree: 4. Law Reports, Legislation, and Other Legal Records

A court roll
October 16, 2023 legalhistorymiscellany

Legal Records Jamboree: 3. Verdicts

October 14, 2023October 14, 2023 legalhistorymiscellany

Legal Records Jamboree: 2. Proofs

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October 12, 2023October 12, 2023 legalhistorymiscellany

Legal Records Jamboree: 1. Pleadings

July 6, 2023 legalhistorymiscellany

On ‘Raptus’, Quitclaims, and Precedents in Staundon vs Chaucer-Chaumpaigne: An Afterword

June 28, 2023July 20, 2023 legalhistorymiscellany

Uncovering City Peacemakers in the Papal States and Venetian Mainland

September 9, 2022September 9, 2022 legalhistorymiscellany

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

August 31, 2022August 31, 2022 legalhistorymiscellany

Decriminalizing Heresy

August 9, 2022August 9, 2022 legalhistorymiscellany

Women’s Executions in Early Modern England

June 6, 2022 legalhistorymiscellany

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

March 13, 2022 legalhistorymiscellany

Gaol and Gaol-breaking in Early Modern Ireland

August 14, 2021August 14, 2021 legalhistorymiscellany

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

February 17, 2021 legalhistorymiscellany

Exits, Entries and the Allure of the Runaway Nun

January 19, 2021 legalhistorymiscellany

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

May 18, 2020May 20, 2020 legalhistorymiscellany

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

April 8, 2020April 9, 2020 legalhistorymiscellany

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

February 14, 2020February 17, 2020 legalhistorymiscellany

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

October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 legalhistorymiscellany

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

August 27, 2018August 27, 2018 legalhistorymiscellany

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

January 12, 2018June 17, 2018 legalhistorymiscellany

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

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

March 16, 2017 legalhistorymiscellany

The Flames of Emergency

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