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Crime, Culpability, and the Devil in the Details

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Arresting Developments

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Legal Process in the Palatinate of Chester: A Hypothetical Project

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Hogarth’s Cruelty Reconsidered

June 25, 2024June 26, 2024 Cassie Watson

A Real and Immediate Risk: Police Encounters with People in Mental Health Crisis

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

November 13, 2023November 13, 2023 legalhistorymiscellany

On Delight in Legal History

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Legal Records Jamboree: 1. Pleadings

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John Cotta: An Early, Failed Forensic Toxicologist?

April 24, 2023April 26, 2023 Krista Kesselring

‘Foul Facts’ and the ‘Pretended Marriage’ of Jane Puckering (1649)

October 10, 2022June 2, 2023 Krista Kesselring

Mystic Fictions and Lawless Fantasies at the End of the First Elizabethan Age

August 31, 2022August 31, 2022 legalhistorymiscellany

Decriminalizing Heresy

July 26, 2022July 27, 2022 Krista Kesselring

Doubt, Decency, and the History of English Witchcraft

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

November 26, 2021 Sara M. Butler

Nobody Messes with Godfrey Giffard, Bishop of Worcester: Punishing the Violators of Sanctuary

January 19, 2021 legalhistorymiscellany

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

October 11, 2020February 25, 2023 Krista Kesselring

Mary Vezey, Sarah Chapone, and the Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives (1732-35)

March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 Cassie Watson

Animal Victims of Crime

February 21, 2020February 21, 2020 Sara M. Butler

Hearing and Speaking the Law in Medieval England

May 16, 2019June 28, 2019 Sara M. Butler

Could Priests Claim Sanctuary in Medieval England?

April 5, 2018June 17, 2018 Krista Kesselring

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

January 12, 2018June 17, 2018 legalhistorymiscellany

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

December 19, 2017June 17, 2018 Cassie Watson

Thomas Scattergood: Forensic Toxicology in Victorian Yorkshire

January 10, 2017July 1, 2018 Krista Kesselring

A Proposal to Enslave Petty Offenders (1621)