February 21, 2024 legalhistorymiscellany “Betrayed, Seduced, Trepanned, or Cruelly Driven Into Sin”: The London Female Penitentiary
February 8, 2024February 7, 2024 Sara M. Butler ‘Gon in pilgremage’: Good for the Soul, Great for the Criminal
November 29, 2023November 29, 2023 Sara M. Butler Who Gets to Keep the Child? A Thirteenth-Century Wardship Dispute Turns Ugly
October 31, 2023October 31, 2023 Krista Kesselring Conjuring and Counterfeits in the Court of Star Chamber (1605)
October 18, 2023October 18, 2023 legalhistorymiscellany Legal Records Jamboree: 4. Law Reports, Legislation, and Other Legal Records
August 10, 2023July 28, 2023 Sara M. Butler Legislating Sanctity: Protecting the Graveyard in Medieval England
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
June 22, 2023June 23, 2023 Cassie Watson Toxic Masculinity? Nineteenth-Century Criminal Poisoning by English Fathers
April 24, 2023April 26, 2023 Krista Kesselring ‘Foul Facts’ and the ‘Pretended Marriage’ of Jane Puckering (1649)
February 10, 2023February 10, 2023 Sara M. Butler Who killed Licoricia of Winchester? A Medieval Murder Mystery
November 22, 2022January 16, 2023 Sara M. Butler The Steelyard, Hansard Merchants, and a “Misliving” Singlewoman in Late Medieval London
October 10, 2022June 2, 2023 Krista Kesselring Mystic Fictions and Lawless Fantasies at the End of the First Elizabethan Age
September 27, 2022September 29, 2022 Cassie Watson “Mute by the visitation of God, and Guilty!” The trials of John Ferriday at Salford, 1825
September 9, 2022September 9, 2022 legalhistorymiscellany When Women Went to Court: Gendered Agency in European Legal Systems, 1300-1800
August 22, 2022August 23, 2022 Sara M. Butler Forgive us our Trespasses: Reconciliation in Later Medieval England
June 6, 2022 legalhistorymiscellany Christened Cockerels and Heretical Hill-Diggers: Treasure Trove in Medieval England
May 13, 2022March 4, 2024 Sara M. Butler Alito’s Leaked Draft Majority Opinion and the Medieval History of Abortion
February 18, 2022February 21, 2022 Sara M. Butler Performing Anti-clericalism: Rioting in Church and against Clergymen in Late Medieval England
November 26, 2021 Sara M. Butler Nobody Messes with Godfrey Giffard, Bishop of Worcester: Punishing the Violators of Sanctuary
September 26, 2021September 26, 2021 Cassie Watson Vitriol to Corrosive Fluid: ‘Acid’ Assault in the Twentieth Century
August 23, 2021August 23, 2021 Sara M. Butler “Horys, strumppettes and fyssenagges”: Defamation in the Courts of Later Medieval England
August 14, 2021August 14, 2021 legalhistorymiscellany Mary Hockmore’s Lawyer: Marriage Breakdown and Women’s Rights in Seventeenth-Century England
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?
February 5, 2021February 5, 2021 Sara M. Butler Surviving an Execution in Medieval England and Modern Ohio: Miracle, or Incompetence?
January 19, 2021 legalhistorymiscellany Murder in Sanctuary: Liberty Jurisdictions and the Prosecution of Felony in Early Tudor England
December 30, 2020December 31, 2020 Cassie Watson Highway Robbery at Highbury: The Murder of PC Daly in 1842
November 25, 2020March 18, 2022 Sara M. Butler Trouble with the In-laws? Marriage and Murder in Thirteenth-Century 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)
August 18, 2020May 12, 2023 Sara M. Butler Law Enforcement Officials and the Limits of Violence in Medieval England
June 13, 2020June 13, 2020 Cassie Watson Online Archives Unlocked: What’s in it for Crime Historians?
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
September 22, 2019September 22, 2019 Cassie Watson Very Serious Pecuniary Loss and Inconvenience: A Jury’s Plea
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
November 9, 2018December 26, 2018 Sara M. Butler “Woe unto those who know not how to syllabificate”: The Languages of Medieval Law
August 27, 2018August 27, 2018 legalhistorymiscellany From Blue Lobsters to Friendly Giants: Visual Representations of the Police, c.1840–1880
August 17, 2018August 17, 2018 Sara M. Butler A Jewish Woman’s Appeal of Murder in Thirteenth-Century England
May 3, 2018June 17, 2018 Sara M. Butler Citizen v. John Foreigner: The Politics of Inclusion in Medieval England’s Urban Centers
April 5, 2018June 17, 2018 Krista Kesselring Star Chamber Stories: Using Criminal Law to Criminal Ends in Early Modern London
March 17, 2018June 17, 2018 Cassie Watson In their own words? Criminal Depositions and the Voices of the Past
February 14, 2018July 2, 2019 Krista Kesselring Star Chamber Stories: Elizabethan Witchcraft, Sorcery, and a Very Troubled Marriage
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
August 15, 2017August 15, 2017 Sara M. Butler From Game of Thrones to Steven Pinker: Just how Lawless were the Middle Ages?
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
November 17, 2016November 18, 2016 Sara M. Butler Suffering Indifference: Pre-Reformation Approaches to Sacred People and Sacred Space
October 23, 2016February 19, 2021 Krista Kesselring Licensed or Licentious? Divorce with Remarriage in Reformation England
September 27, 2016February 19, 2018 Cassie Watson Dead Drunk or Just Deviant? Homicide and Alcohol in Wales, 1730-1914