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Divorce_History
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A New Methodological Approach to the History of Divorce 1857-1923 @drjenniferaston.bsky.social @dianeranyard.bsky.social
@Northumbria Law School #ESRC #UKNatArchives ‪#welshwomensaid ‬ #CAFCASS Website: https://hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/divorce_history
In case you missed it, here’s out latest blog ‘If at first, you don’t succeed...remarriage and the Divorce Court’ that looks at a couple with links to the #Guinness brewing family who used legislation to reconcile their romantic entanglements #Divorce #LegalHistory #Genealogy #Remarriage (1/16)
May 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Our latest blog ‘If at first, you don’t succeed... #remarriage and the #Divorce Court’ focuses on a couple with links to the #Guinness brewing family and gives a unique glimpse into their attempts to reconcile their romantic entanglements with legislations #legalhistory #genealogy shorturl.at/F6F80
April 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
For #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM we’re reposting our blog on one of the most radical pieces of legislation in 19thC England that women could use, protection orders. The topic of the book Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce by Dr Jennifer Aston and Professor Olive Anderson. #womenshistory #women (1/11)
March 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
#genealogy #familyhistory #history #marriage #divorce #letters On the 16 June 1885, a 23-year-old Miss Charlotte Jane Bell (the daughter of a local gentleman) married Charles Marshall Dix (a 30-year-old widower) at the Parish Church in the small market town of Louth in Lincolnshire. After... (1/9)
March 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
As it’s #InternationalWomensDay you can read a free chapter from @drjenniferaston.bsky.social and Professor Olive Anderson’s new book: Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales: For Wives Alone? tinyurl.com/bdfe8u9d #history #legalhistory #womenshistory #genealogists
March 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
In our latest blog we explore restitution of conjugal rights. A type of matrimonial cause available in the #DivorceCourt to deal with #desertion, #childcustody and #maintenance issues that could also be used as evidence of desertion in a #divorce case

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March 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
In January we got to an exciting point in the project, with a visit to our Project Partners #NationalArchivesUK in Kew. We, the Principal Investigator @drjenniferaston.bsky.social and Senior Research Assistant @dianeranyard.bsky.social spent 5 days at the archives. So why were we there? (1/9)
February 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Find out what we've been working on recently in our latest blog 'New Year, New Stage of the Project! Our visit to #TheNationalArchives, Kew' hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/divorce_hist... #archives #divorce #Ancestry #legalhistory #genealogy #familyhistory #history
January 31, 2025 at 9:17 AM
As today (the first Monday of the year) is known as #DivorceDay our latest blog looks at a case from the Victorian Divorce Court that began in early January 1898 tinyurl.com/hcvb49n8 #Divorce #Separation #LegalHistory #History #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #TheNationalArchivesUK #Ancestry
January 6, 2025 at 8:27 AM
In case you missed our latest blog, Finding the Words: Descriptions of Domestic Abuse in the Victorian Divorce Court, is written in collaboration with project partner #WelshWomensAid. You can read the blog on our website here: tinyurl.com/4y85uy3t #Divorce #Christmas #DomesticAbuse #History
December 24, 2024 at 8:44 AM
Our final blog before Christmas is written in collaboration with project partner #WelshWomensAid. Here we explore how different forms of #domesticabuse were described before the #Divorce Court & consider how survivors articulated their experiences in the 19thC system. #Christmas #LegalHistory (1/10)
December 20, 2024 at 12:01 PM
In our latest blog, what happened when the literary agent who founded the company that represented #AgathaChristie, was brought before the Divorce Court to answer for his adulterous relationship with a married woman? tinyurl.com/bp56jccx #Adultery #Divorce #LegalHistory #History #Genealogy
December 18, 2024 at 8:52 AM
As part of #DisabilityHistoryMonth, we thought we’d revisit our blog called Deafness in the Divorce Court, an example of how #deaf litigants navigated their way through the Victorian Divorce Court. #DeafAwarenes #Legalhistory #genealogy On 25 July 1876, a solicitor by the name of Redgrave... (1/9)
November 27, 2024 at 9:09 AM
On an unseasonably warm Wednesday in May 1825, Miss Margaret Shands travelled to St Saviour’s Church, Southwark, to marry mariner, Alexander Christie. They set up home together on Watling Street in the City of London and were joined by a daughter, Rebecca in 1827, and a son, William, in 1830. (1/11)
November 22, 2024 at 10:55 AM
It's Publication [email protected] & Prof Olive Anderson’s new book Deserted Wives & Economic Divorce is out now @hartpublishing.bsky.social 🥳
Read the Intro for free tinyurl.com/bdfe8u9d & check out our latest blog post tinyurl.com/4tz2wb34 🌳🧬📚🗃️ #19thC #history #legalhistory #divorce
November 14, 2024 at 9:27 AM
What was the most radical piece of legislation in 19thC England?! @drjenniferaston.bsky.social makes the case for Orders of Protection under Section 21 of the Divorce & Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 in our latest blog post. tinyurl.com/4tz2wb34 @hartpublishing.bsky.social #BookSky #legalhistory 🗃️🧬🌳
November 11, 2024 at 8:56 AM
D.I.V.O.R.C.E. Legally Severing the Bonds of Marriage, our blog looks at grounds for divorce from 1857 to today, and the remarriage of the divorcees King Charles III and Queen Camilla tinyurl.com/477wcsmy #History #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Divorce #RoyalFamily #Royalty #LegalHistory #Marriage
November 8, 2024 at 8:52 AM
What’s in a divorce case file? A handy guide to help you with your own #familyhistory or #genealogy research exploring your ancestors #marriage’s and #divorce’s or how to use in your own #academic research #UkNationalArchives #Ancestry #Archives #History
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November 6, 2024 at 9:22 AM
If you have a few minutes, read our fourth blog post hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/divorce_hist... An introduction to Divorce Court records to help you find out how to use them in your own #familyhistory or #genealogy research. #UkNationalArchives #Ancestry #genealogists #archives #history #divorce
November 4, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Our bonus blog on Deafness in the Divorce Court shorturl.at/zYtFB @drjenniferaston.bsky.social was a background consultant about married women’s legal status and jobs on #Strictly winner, actress and deaf rights campaigner Rose Ayling-Ellis’s episode of BBC #WDYTYA #Deaf #Deafawareness #History
November 1, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Here’s our second blog, a brief introduction to the Divorce Court. Including its creation in 1858 as a civil court and the type of cases spouses could pursue there to deal with marital discord #divorce #legalhistory #familyhistory #genealogy #genealogists hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/divorce_hist...
October 30, 2024 at 9:35 AM