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Author: Cassie Watson

I am a historian of forensic medicine and crime in Britain, focusing on the period between 1700 and the First World War. My research is interdisciplinary, drawing on law, medicine and social history of crime. I have recently completed a monograph on medico-legal practice in England and Wales 1700-1914, and am now working on book-length projects on vitriol throwing and poisoning in the UK.
December 26, 2022 Cassie Watson

An Episode of Rough Music in Scotland, March 1842

September 27, 2022September 29, 2022 Cassie Watson

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

June 28, 2022June 28, 2022 Cassie Watson

Where’s The Harm?

March 31, 2022March 31, 2022 Cassie Watson

The Dark Side of Victorian Policing

December 16, 2021 Cassie Watson

Serial Homicide before ‘Serial Killers’: British Poisoners

September 26, 2021September 26, 2021 Cassie Watson

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

June 27, 2021June 27, 2021 Cassie Watson

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

March 28, 2021March 29, 2021 Cassie Watson

Victorian Crime News: Evidence Which Cannot Err or Deceive?

December 30, 2020December 31, 2020 Cassie Watson

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

September 29, 2020September 30, 2020 Cassie Watson

Coventry’s Act and Malicious Injury

June 13, 2020June 13, 2020 Cassie Watson

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

March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 Cassie Watson

Animal Victims of Crime

December 11, 2019December 11, 2019 Cassie Watson

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

September 22, 2019September 22, 2019 Cassie Watson

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

July 31, 2019August 1, 2019 Cassie Watson

The Long Arm of the Law Cut Short

March 23, 2019March 23, 2019 Cassie Watson

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

December 26, 2018December 26, 2018 Cassie Watson

Prosecuting Homicide on the Coroner’s Inquisition

September 23, 2018September 25, 2018 Cassie Watson

Execution Delayed: Some Scottish Examples

June 7, 2018June 17, 2018 Cassie Watson

Murder Confessions 1715–1900: A Preliminary Typology

March 17, 2018June 17, 2018 Cassie Watson

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

December 19, 2017June 17, 2018 Cassie Watson

Thomas Scattergood: Forensic Toxicology in Victorian Yorkshire

September 13, 2017December 16, 2017 Cassie Watson

Acid Attacks in Nineteenth-Century Britain

June 11, 2017June 11, 2017 Cassie Watson

Mysterious Death: What Price the Medical Jurist?

March 25, 2017May 7, 2017 Cassie Watson

Doom for Demembring: Assault in Scots Law

December 21, 2016January 14, 2018 Cassie Watson

Oxford: Crime, Law and the University

September 27, 2016February 19, 2018 Cassie Watson

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

July 30, 2016January 14, 2018 Cassie Watson

Death’s Gatekeepers: The Victorian Coroner’s Officer

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