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Birmingham’s Brewery Blacklist
So much of the history of crime focusses upon the interaction between the legal apparatus of the state – the police, the court room, the prison- and the behaviours of those acting outside of social an… more →
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Birmingham’s Brewery Blacklist
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wrote 5 days ago: So much of the history of crime focusses upon the interaction between the legal apparatus of the sta … more →
No Place for a Lady? Back to the Victorian Penal System
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wrote 2 weeks ago: The reforms proposed by Justice Secretary Chris Grayling filled news headlines today. His objective … more →
Are they not women and sisters too?
wrote 2 months ago: International women’s day – formally international working women’s day – is … more →
The Thin Blue Line
wrote 8 months ago: Much in the same way that many of us have developed two dimensional ideas about victims and villains … more →
Casualties of Crime
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wrote 8 months ago: Although on occasion crime in the Victorian period can range from the bizarre, to the funny, to the … more →
The Fighting Irish
wrote 9 months ago: From at least the time of the ‘great hunger’ when tens of thousands of immigrants headed for the por … more →
On The Case
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wrote 9 months ago: In their fascinating exploration of social history, Franca Iacovetta and Wendy Mitchinson compared … more →
Little Hell
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wrote 10 months ago: At the same time as attempting to investigate and reconstruct the life events and relationships that … more →
Victims and Villains
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wrote 11 months ago: Since the concept of crime and the mechanisms to deal with it began, those involved in it have commo … more →
Fresh From the Archives – a glimpse from the Thames Police Court into the world of Victorian London’s real ‘Eastenders’
wrote 11 months ago: This week, the trail left by the life and crimes of a Victorian offender, Bridget Lacking, lead stra … more →
Some good old fashioned hocus-pocus:
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wrote 12 months ago: The further we investigate the nature of the Victorian offender, the clearer the parallels with our … more →
‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there’ - Or perhaps they don’t.
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wrote 1 year ago: The iconic opening line from L. P. Hartley’s 1953 novel, The Go Between, has come to encapsulate the … more →
How do you solve a problem like . . . Lydia Lloyd
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wrote 1 year ago: Attempting to retrace and recover the lives of Victorian England’s female offenders is both a reward … more →
A Growing Class of Offenders?
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wrote 1 year ago: Image: Home Office and Prison Commission: Female Licences; Class: PCOM4; Piece: 59; Item: 6; Page: 2 … more →
Historical Mugshots: Does the Year 1880 Make Me Look Fat?
wrote 1 year ago: So first, let me start out this blog post with a nod to one of my favorite podcasts, Stuff I Missed … more →
