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Gwen Seabourne
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#LegalHistory prof, U of Bristol Law. Account nobody else's fault. On research leave 25-26, working on books: mayhem; 'legal medievalism'.

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 7d
Explore the history of Bangor Cathedral and hear from Dr Shaun McGuinness, editor of Bangor Episcopal Acta, 1092-1306, in this BBC Sounds episode to celebrate the cathedral's 1500 anniversary. 🎧 Listen here:
Bangor Cathedral at 1,500 - BBC Sounds
Dr Erin Lloyd Jones explores 1,500 years of history at Bangor Cathedral.
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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · 9d
If you are in Bristol over the next couple of days. Pop into Central Library and catch the Medieval Manuscripts exhibition whilst you can. Ends Friday 19 December!

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Divorce_History @divorcehistory.bsky.social · 15d
📣Today we're launching the #CfP for the 1-day conference 'Broken Bonds: New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969' online & in-person 20 April 2026 #history #familylaw #divorce

CfP deadline is 2 Feb 2026

See 👇for details.

www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

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Gwen Seabourne @gwenseabourne.bsky.social · 18d
#LegalHistory #BristolHistory This, from Evan Jones @bristolcms.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social is interesting on humour, Bristol, maps, gallows(es) ... bristolrecordsociety.org/stories-from...
Four Jokes on the Millerd Map
Evan Jones, University of Bristol (8 Dec 2025) 10 min read Millerd Map (1673) James Millerd’s 1673 map of Bristol is the best known and most widely used representation of the pre-modern city.…
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Gwen Seabourne @gwenseabourne.bsky.social · 26d
Favourite musical page turn of the year - last verse of the best Advent hymn. Descant time. Top Gs in a medieval chapel. #LordMayorsChapel #Bristol
Choir music book Lo he comes with clouds descending.

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Gwen Seabourne @gwenseabourne.bsky.social · Nov 21
Much cooler than UK banknotes.
A lot of axolotls: the amphibian-themed banknote Mexicans don’t want to spend
Nearly 13m people are hoarding millions of dollars’ worth of the stylish 50 peso note, featuring Mexico’s cutest critter
www.theguardian.com

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Prof Ben Pohl @benpohl.bsky.social · Nov 21
Love medieval manuscripts? Love public libraries? Love Bristol? Don’t miss this FREE exhibition: bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=250...
Medieval Manuscripts at Bristol Central Library
A rare opportunity to view a selection of medieval manuscripts from our collections. Highlights from this unique display include a richly decorated Book of Hours, a Missal made for St Augustine’...
bristol.events.mylibrary.digital

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · Nov 21
Consett Iron Works, County Durham, 1978, photo by Graham Smith (b.1947).

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Gwen Seabourne @gwenseabourne.bsky.social · Nov 19
Clever advertising image, in an evil, cancerous, sort of way ... #WillsTobacco
Wills cigarette advert, high court judge

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Prof Ben Pohl @benpohl.bsky.social · Nov 12
Very proud of my former PhD student, Dan Booker, whose important study on women and the law of the exchequer has just been published by @ihrlibrary.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/histres/adva...
Women and the law of the exchequer in the early thirteenth century*
Abstract. This article explores the status and treatment of women under the law of the exchequer in the early thirteenth century and more specifically duri
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Manoj Dias-Abey @mdiasabey.bsky.social · Nov 10
The Moving Labour Collective is pleased to invite applications for our biennial Labour Law Summer Camp, taking place in Malmö, Sweden, from 14–17 June 2026. Applications close on 1 December—please feel free to reach out with any questions!

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Gwen Seabourne @gwenseabourne.bsky.social · Nov 7
Bristol Record Society's latest:
archive.org/details/bris...
Documents on the Bristol Slave Trade : Kenneth Morgan : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Kenneth Morgan (ed.), Documents on the Bristol Slave Trade (Bristol Record Society publications, Vol. 80, 2025)A collection of transcribed documents relating...
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Caroline Derry @carolinederry.bsky.social · Nov 5
Now open for booking: OU Law School's legal histories conference. This year's theme is 'moments of rupture' and we have an exciting range of speakers, topics, jurisdictions and periods.

20-21 November, online, free.

Programme and booking at the link.
Annual Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries Conference - Moments of Rupture
Join us for the 6th annual Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries Conference - Moments of Rupture
www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Gwen Seabourne @gwenseabourne.bsky.social · Nov 5
An excellent #LegalHistory initiative from my #Bristol colleagues. Do have a look!
elenacaruso.bsky.social Elena Caruso @elenacaruso.bsky.social · Nov 4
Are you working on a paper on law, history and reproduction? My great colleague Dr Gauri Pillai and I are organising a workshop for you at the University of Bristol Law School on 1 May 2026!
Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025.
Travel grants available.

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Elena Caruso @elenacaruso.bsky.social · Nov 4
Are you working on a paper on law, history and reproduction? My great colleague Dr Gauri Pillai and I are organising a workshop for you at the University of Bristol Law School on 1 May 2026!
Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025.
Travel grants available.

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Gwen Seabourne @gwenseabourne.bsky.social · Oct 31
whoops - make that vol 8.

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Gwen Seabourne @gwenseabourne.bsky.social · Oct 31
… And the editor notes a swap of ‘God’ and ‘the Devil’ in one sentence, somewhere between manuscript and printed law report … which is definitely the stuff of academic nightmares!

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Gwen Seabourne @gwenseabourne.bsky.social · Oct 31
just how witchcraft works ... when it is OK to call somebody a witch or sorcerer, plus a bit of the Odyssey and a throwback to a medieval case involving allegations of going in possession of a bag containing the face of a dead man and a book of sorcery.

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Gwen Seabourne @gwenseabourne.bsky.social · Oct 31
In his note on a defamation case from 1609, Bean v. Mutton (great, though non-spooky, name!) in which Mr Mutton had been found to have called Mr Bean a sorcerer and enchanter, top ruff-wearer E. Coke gives us his inimitable stylings on the exact meanings of soothsaying and enchanting...

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Gwen Seabourne @gwenseabourne.bsky.social · Oct 31
Scary #LegalHistory: Nothing particularly Halloween-y in my own research, but feel moved to point out, in honour of the occasion, the is an excellent bit of magic- and witch- related content in the latest Selden Society volume (Sir John Baker's 6th part of Coke's Notebooks), p. 1807.
Edward Coke, ruffed and robed.

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Legal History Miscellany @legalmiscellany.bsky.social · Oct 27
What if the Devil made them do it? A new post by
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'Crime, Culpability, and the Devil in the Details'.
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/10/27/c...
Crime, Culpability, and the Devil in the Details
Did claims of having fallen for the devil’s seductions heighten or lessen perceptions of a person’s guilt in early modern English legal processes?
legalhistorymiscellany.com

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Gwen Seabourne @gwenseabourne.bsky.social · Oct 24
Some new open access #LegalHistory: inc. some thoughts from me on medieval 'petty treason'. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Scho...
Celebrating "Law and Constitutional Change" New Conference Volume | School of Law | Queen's University Belfast
A new conference volume, Law and Constitutional Change, co-edited by Professor David Capper, Dr Conor McCormick and Professor Norma Dawson, has been published open access by Cambridge University Press...
www.qub.ac.uk

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Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social · Oct 21
Here’s something to look forward to!
In celebration of the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue / Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş - 📚 Bristol Central Library are having an exhibition!
🗓️ 4-18 December

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Caroline Derry @carolinederry.bsky.social · Oct 14
Researching a legal moment that was supposed to change everything - whether it did or not? The call for papers for 'Moments of Rupture' is open until 23 October!
Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster.
#LegalHistory #cfp
The Open University
Moments of Rupture Online 20-21 November 2025Some legal and social changes are so profound that they create what seem to be moments of rupture: breaks between the ‘before’ and ‘after’. These moments c...
law-school.open.ac.uk