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

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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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Joan Coleman and the Trials of Elizabethan Witchcraft

January 12, 2024January 12, 2024 Krista Kesselring

Elizabethan England’s First Witches

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Legal Records Jamboree: 3. Verdicts

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Legal Records Jamboree: 1. Pleadings

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John Cotta: An Early, Failed Forensic Toxicologist?

February 10, 2023February 10, 2023 Sara M. Butler

Who killed Licoricia of Winchester? A Medieval Murder Mystery

August 22, 2022August 23, 2022 Sara M. Butler

Forgive us our Trespasses: Reconciliation in Later Medieval England

August 9, 2022August 9, 2022 legalhistorymiscellany

Women’s Executions in Early Modern England

August 23, 2021August 23, 2021 Sara M. Butler

“Horys, strumppettes and fyssenagges”: Defamation in the Courts of Later Medieval England

January 19, 2021 legalhistorymiscellany

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

November 25, 2020March 18, 2022 Sara M. Butler

Trouble with the In-laws? Marriage and Murder in Thirteenth-Century England

July 6, 2020July 11, 2020 Krista Kesselring

The Laws of Moses…and of England?

October 10, 2019 Krista Kesselring

Unsolved Early Modern Murder Mysteries

March 23, 2019March 23, 2019 Cassie Watson

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

January 11, 2019May 1, 2019 Krista Kesselring

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

December 26, 2018December 26, 2018 Cassie Watson

Prosecuting Homicide on the Coroner’s Inquisition

August 17, 2018August 17, 2018 Sara M. Butler

A Jewish Woman’s Appeal of Murder in Thirteenth-Century England

July 2, 2018 Krista Kesselring

Mapping Durham’s Medieval Sanctuary Seekers

March 17, 2018June 17, 2018 Cassie Watson

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

June 11, 2017June 11, 2017 Cassie Watson

Mysterious Death: What Price the Medical Jurist?

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

August 8, 2016June 17, 2018 Krista Kesselring

The Short History of the Infidelity Defence in England

July 30, 2016December 9, 2025 Cassie Watson

Death’s Gatekeepers: The Victorian Coroner’s Officer