December 26, 2025December 26, 2025 Cassie Watson

Murder, Medicine, Money: A Met Police—Home Office Dispute, 1889-90

December 11, 2025December 11, 2025 legalhistorymiscellany

Mapping Death: The Atlas of Victorian Coroners’ Districts

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

December 23, 2024 Cassie Watson

Legal Process in the Palatinate of Chester: A Hypothetical Project

April 23, 2024April 23, 2024 Krista Kesselring

‘Unlawful Love’ and the 1604 Witchcraft Act

April 3, 2024April 3, 2024 legalhistorymiscellany

Wicked Little Letters and So Much More

February 21, 2024 legalhistorymiscellany

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

January 12, 2024January 12, 2024 Krista Kesselring

Elizabethan England’s First Witches

November 13, 2023November 13, 2023 legalhistorymiscellany

On Delight in Legal History

October 18, 2023October 18, 2023 legalhistorymiscellany

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

October 16, 2023 legalhistorymiscellany

Legal Records Jamboree: 3. Verdicts

October 14, 2023October 14, 2023 legalhistorymiscellany

Legal Records Jamboree: 2. Proofs

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

September 9, 2022September 9, 2022 legalhistorymiscellany

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

October 10, 2021October 10, 2021 Krista Kesselring

The Court of Star Chamber’s Record(s) and Reports

January 19, 2021 legalhistorymiscellany

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

June 13, 2020June 13, 2020 Cassie Watson

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

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 Krista Kesselring

Star Chamber as a Marriage Court

October 10, 2019 Krista Kesselring

Unsolved Early Modern Murder Mysteries

January 11, 2019May 1, 2019 Krista Kesselring

The Very Image of Justice? Star Chamber Records and the Art of Punishment

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

October 9, 2017October 10, 2017 Krista Kesselring

Impeaching the Queen of England (1643/4)

May 7, 2017May 7, 2017 legalhistorymiscellany

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

December 21, 2016January 14, 2018 Cassie Watson

Oxford: Crime, Law and the University

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

Anti-Intellectualism and the Invisible Man

July 24, 2016July 31, 2016 Krista Kesselring

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