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Legal History Miscellany @legalmiscellany.bsky.social · 15d

New post by @drkdwatson.bsky.social and Carolyn Strange: "Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents"
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Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents

By Cassie Watson and Carolyn Strange; posted 23 September 2025. The prosecution and sentencing of the Australian ‘Mushroom Murderer’ to life in prison for the poisoning of three relatives and the a…

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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦 @sarabutler.bsky.social · Aug 14

My new post is up!

Butler, "Resisting Visitation in Late Medieval England" (2025).

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Resisting Visitation in Late Medieval England

Posted by Sara M. Butler, 14 Aug. 2025. There is no medieval record more enjoyable to peruse than visitation returns. Although visitations developed over the course of the ninth century, it was not…

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Legal History Miscellany @legalmiscellany.bsky.social · Aug 15

New post by @sarabutler.bsky.social: 'Resisting Visitation in Late Medieval England': legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/08/14/r...

Resisting Visitation in Late Medieval England

Posted by Sara M. Butler, 14 Aug. 2025. There is no medieval record more enjoyable to peruse than visitation returns. Although visitations developed over the course of the ninth century, it was not…

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · Jul 14

My new post @legalmiscellany.bsky.social: 'Arresting Developments', on the abduction of an heiress in 1702 and the dangers of arrests. legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/07/14/a...

Arresting Developments

Beginning with the abduction of the young heiress Pleasant Rawlins in 1702, this post discusses how arrests were abused and resisted in 17th and 18th-century England.

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Legal History Miscellany @legalmiscellany.bsky.social · Jul 14

'Arresting Developments': a new post, on the abuses and dangers of arrests in 17th and 18th-century England: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/07/14/a...

Arresting Developments

Beginning with the abduction of the young heiress Pleasant Rawlins in 1702, this post discusses how arrests were abused and resisted in 17th and 18th-century England.

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Legal History Miscellany @legalmiscellany.bsky.social · Jun 27

How and why do forms of assault change with wider socio-legal changes? New post from @drkdwatson.bsky.social on acid attacks and more. legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/06/27/t...

Tackling the ‘Assault Deficit’

By Cassie Watson; posted 27 June 2025. In my previous post I argued that assault should be seen as an important avenue of research by crime and legal historians, but noted that it is usually more d…

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · May 28

The first batch of STAC 5 (Elizabethan Star Chamber proceedings) catalogue enhancements went live today. Short titles, dates, party names, document type, and county as standard. For some other really exciting additions, read on. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C...

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · May 28

CFP: Workshop on 'Crime and Conjugality in Europe, pre-1800' to be held in Oxford, 6 July 2026; deadline for expressions of interest is 15 Sept 2025. Please help spread the word! #history #SkyStorians www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2...

Call for papers: Crime and Conjugality in Europe, pre-1800

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Legal History Miscellany @legalmiscellany.bsky.social · May 16

A new post from @sarabutler.bsky.social: 'All Bastards Are Free?' legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/05/16/a...

All Bastards are Free: The Medieval Origins of the Common Law Rule

Posted by Sara M. Butler, 16 May 2025. Medieval illustration of men harvesting wheat with reaping-hooks or sickles, on a calendar page for August. Queen Mary’s Psalter (Ms. Royal 2. B. VII), …

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Chloë Kennedy @chloejskennedy.bsky.social · Apr 23

Now available as a (potentially affordable) paperback www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · Apr 22

Sara Burton and Susanna Bastwick launched the petitioning campaign against the 'arbitrary' Star Chamber, eventually resulting in its abolition.

@kjkesselring.bsky.social's new post on @legalmiscellany.bsky.social reveals the #PowerOfPetitioning:
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Photograph of the bottom of a manuscript petition:
"And your petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray etc. Sara Burton"

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Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social · Apr 22

Never miss anything by @kjkesselring.bsky.social!

Legal History Miscellany @legalmiscellany.bsky.social · Apr 22

A new post, on the end of the infamous Court of Star Chamber and its afterlife: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/04/22/t...

The End(s) of a Lawless Court

Why and how did the Court of Star Chamber come to be seen as a lawless court? And did the act that abolished the court in 1641 end the lawless discretion people feared in it?

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Legal History Miscellany @legalmiscellany.bsky.social · Apr 22

A new post, on the end of the infamous Court of Star Chamber and its afterlife: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/04/22/t...

The End(s) of a Lawless Court

Why and how did the Court of Star Chamber come to be seen as a lawless court? And did the act that abolished the court in 1641 end the lawless discretion people feared in it?

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Legal History Miscellany @legalmiscellany.bsky.social · Mar 30

A new post from @drkdwatson.bsky.social on why and how to bring assault into studies of the history of violence: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/03/30/i...

Investigating the ‘Assault Deficit’

By Cassie Watson; posted 30 March 2025. According to Robert Shoemaker, quoting an eighteenth-century observer, “the vague legal definition of assault meant that ‘any injury done to a man in an angr…

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Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social · Mar 25

Had a lovely time chatting about my new book on the history of imprisonment in London with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Listen to us at the link below or wherever you normally get your podcasts:
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Kiran Mehta, "To Detain or to Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750–1840" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025) - New Books Network

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Alice Taylor @ajt55.bsky.social · Mar 24

Extremely pleased to announce (and first ever post here) that Danica Summerlin and my special issue on 'law beyond the legal renaissance', funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social, is now out, with open access introduction www.tandfonline.com/toc/flgh20/4... .

The Journal of Legal History

Volume 46, Issue 1 of The Journal of Legal History

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The Statutes Project @statutes.bsky.social · Mar 16

This is a great resource: 355 historic statutes on slavery from the Atlantic World, 1661 - 1838.

Laws of Enslavement and Freedom in the Anglo-Atlantic World

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#History #EnslavedHistory #LegalHistory 🗃️

Home | Laws of Enslavement and Freedom

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Legal History Miscellany @legalmiscellany.bsky.social · Mar 12

A new guest post, by Andrea McKenzie on 17th century legal shorthand and its uses - not just for speed, but also secrecy and snark: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/03/12/s...