Centre for Law and History Research
@lawhistresearch.bsky.social
The Centre for Law and History Research at the University of Bristol Law School highlights the need for historical perspectives in legal scholarship and promotes excellent research into the varied histories of law.
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Centre for Law and History Research
The Centre for Law and History Research highlights the need for historical perspectives in legal scholarship and promotes excellent research into the varied histories of law.
www.bristol.ac.uk
This is somewhat 'under construction', but it is high time we had a presence here, so hello Bluesky, and especially #LegalHistory chums out there!
Our web page is at: www.bristol.ac.uk/law/centre-for-law-and-history-research/
Our web page is at: www.bristol.ac.uk/law/centre-for-law-and-history-research/
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Promising 'a detailed discussion of the history of chancel repair liability' - a #LawCommission consultation for hardcore nerdy #LegalHistory and #LandLaw fans to get their teeth into!
lawcom.gov.uk/project/chan...
lawcom.gov.uk/project/chan...
Chancel repair liability and registration – Law Commission
Reforming the law
lawcom.gov.uk
July 29, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Promising 'a detailed discussion of the history of chancel repair liability' - a #LawCommission consultation for hardcore nerdy #LegalHistory and #LandLaw fans to get their teeth into!
lawcom.gov.uk/project/chan...
lawcom.gov.uk/project/chan...
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Charitable ... up to a point. 18th C commemoration of a will providing for poor children ... but only 'lawfully begotten' ones. Church of St Ellyw, Llanelieu. #Charity #Succession #LegalHistory
July 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Charitable ... up to a point. 18th C commemoration of a will providing for poor children ... but only 'lawfully begotten' ones. Church of St Ellyw, Llanelieu. #Charity #Succession #LegalHistory
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Intro to proceedings of 5th British Legal History Conference (1981). Take that, pre-1980s legal historians ... older #LegalHistory 'the Cinderella of the world of historical scholarship' and a 'quasi-intellectual exercise' which might o might not be preferred to gardening ...
June 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Intro to proceedings of 5th British Legal History Conference (1981). Take that, pre-1980s legal historians ... older #LegalHistory 'the Cinderella of the world of historical scholarship' and a 'quasi-intellectual exercise' which might o might not be preferred to gardening ...
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If you’re joining us in Bristol next week (!) and you’re not yet in the starter pack, do let us know. #RenSoc25 #EarlyModern #Skystorians
Just over a week until all #EarlyModern ists descend upon Bristol!! Find out who’s joining us at #RenSoc25 and start those conversations ahead of our gathering in person:
go.bsky.app/DVyFCxt #SkyStorians
go.bsky.app/DVyFCxt #SkyStorians
June 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
If you’re joining us in Bristol next week (!) and you’re not yet in the starter pack, do let us know. #RenSoc25 #EarlyModern #Skystorians
#Crime #Marriage #LegalHistory #Medieval #EarlyModern
CFP for something to look forward to in 2026 - pass it on!
bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2025/event---call-for-papers-crime-and-conjugality-in-europe-pre-1800-.html
CFP for something to look forward to in 2026 - pass it on!
bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2025/event---call-for-papers-crime-and-conjugality-in-europe-pre-1800-.html
Call for papers: Crime and Conjugality in Europe, pre-1800
bristol.ac.uk
June 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
#Crime #Marriage #LegalHistory #Medieval #EarlyModern
CFP for something to look forward to in 2026 - pass it on!
bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2025/event---call-for-papers-crime-and-conjugality-in-europe-pre-1800-.html
CFP for something to look forward to in 2026 - pass it on!
bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2025/event---call-for-papers-crime-and-conjugality-in-europe-pre-1800-.html
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Reform UK appears, from their manifesto, to believe that there are misdemeanor offences in English law. Was the Criminal Law Act 1967 s.1 passed in vain?
May 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Reform UK appears, from their manifesto, to believe that there are misdemeanor offences in English law. Was the Criminal Law Act 1967 s.1 passed in vain?
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Signing up for the book after the book after next ... all being well, due to hit bookshops (if they still exist) in 2027 ... #LegalHistory
April 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Signing up for the book after the book after next ... all being well, due to hit bookshops (if they still exist) in 2027 ... #LegalHistory
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The next British Legal History Conference in Nottingham, 2026: www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/gro...
Looking forward to all the #LegalHistory
Looking forward to all the #LegalHistory
British Legal History Conference 2026 - The University of Nottingham
www.nottingham.ac.uk
April 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The next British Legal History Conference in Nottingham, 2026: www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/gro...
Looking forward to all the #LegalHistory
Looking forward to all the #LegalHistory
One for all interested in the importance of history, pehaps particularly #Bristol people - including our next cohort of #LegalHistory students.
If ever anyone needed an example of the dynamic nature of history ... the latest stage in the story and history of the Colston statue and plinth in #Bristol - new plaque added. www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...
MSN
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April 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
One for all interested in the importance of history, pehaps particularly #Bristol people - including our next cohort of #LegalHistory students.
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Today in 'how to blame the (late) #medieval period for modern ills ... local news goes off on one about Perkin Warbeck when discussing modern financial scams. Remember: 'Always double-check the identity of someone claiming to be from a bank, HMRC [or a Yorkist prince]'... www.msn.com/en-gb/money/...
MSN
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April 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Today in 'how to blame the (late) #medieval period for modern ills ... local news goes off on one about Perkin Warbeck when discussing modern financial scams. Remember: 'Always double-check the identity of someone claiming to be from a bank, HMRC [or a Yorkist prince]'... www.msn.com/en-gb/money/...
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More #LegalHistory tourism, Michaelhouse Escley, Herefs - 17th C testator Meredith Maddy wanted to make sure his money for the poor was not going to various 'dogs and swine'. #HappyChristmasUnlessYouAreANotoriousDrunkard
#Charity
#Charity
April 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
More #LegalHistory tourism, Michaelhouse Escley, Herefs - 17th C testator Meredith Maddy wanted to make sure his money for the poor was not going to various 'dogs and swine'. #HappyChristmasUnlessYouAreANotoriousDrunkard
#Charity
#Charity
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#OTD 1580, South East England was struck by the largest earthquake in two hundred years.
Dr Andrew Thrush recently explored this phenomenon on the #HistParl website, including why citizens thought it happened and how they responded to it:
Dr Andrew Thrush recently explored this phenomenon on the #HistParl website, including why citizens thought it happened and how they responded to it:
The 1580 Dover Straits Earthquake - The History of Parliament
On a clear, calm evening in April 1580, south-eastern England, as well as the Low Countries and parts of northern France and Germany, were struck by a violent
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April 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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My latest blog post asks why historians tend not to study the crime of (common) assault:
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/03/30/i...
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…
legalhistorymiscellany.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
My latest blog post asks why historians tend not to study the crime of (common) assault:
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/03/30/i...
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/03/30/i...
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Having spoken about 'petty treason' multiple times over the last few years, it's nice finally to be correcting the proofs for an actual publication of (part of) the research. #LegalHistory
April 2, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Having spoken about 'petty treason' multiple times over the last few years, it's nice finally to be correcting the proofs for an actual publication of (part of) the research. #LegalHistory
Excellent legal precision here! #LegalHistory
#LegalHistory tourism ... Interestingly specific 'boards of shame' for punishment of perjury and abduuction of a girl under 16 (I think), c1800, Prison Museum, The Hague. Not pictured, the even more exact 'theft of cattle from a pasture after climbing into the pasture'.
April 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Excellent legal precision here! #LegalHistory
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A new post from @sarabutler.bsky.social on the @legalmiscellany.bsky.social blog, with interesting observations about linguistic legacies in English law: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/02/20/w...
Weird and Wonderful: The Mixed Cultural Heritage of England’s Common Law
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 20 Feb. 2025. Despite the anti-immigrant rhetoric that gushes forth from the mouths of right-leaning politicians and pervades our news and social media, it is hard to deny…
legalhistorymiscellany.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A new post from @sarabutler.bsky.social on the @legalmiscellany.bsky.social blog, with interesting observations about linguistic legacies in English law: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/02/20/w...
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Spotlight on the Gordon Riots (though really I took the opportunity to spend over half the video talking about King's Bench plea rolls). www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/st...
Spotlight On: Gordon Riots - The National Archives
Collections expert Dan Gosling records related to the Kings Bench trials of the Gordon Riots.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
February 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Spotlight on the Gordon Riots (though really I took the opportunity to spend over half the video talking about King's Bench plea rolls). www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/st...
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CONFERENCE: Grotian Law and Modernity at the dawn of a new age. 400 years of the Jure Belli Ac Pacis 1625-2025 (The Hague: @unileiden.bsky.social , 19-20 JUN 2025)
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CONFERENCE: Grotian Law and Modernity at the dawn of a new age. 400 years of the Jure Belli Ac Pacis 1625-2025 (The Hague: Universiteit Leiden, 19-20 JUN 2025)
image source: Universiteit Leiden On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the first publication of De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grot...
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February 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
CONFERENCE: Grotian Law and Modernity at the dawn of a new age. 400 years of the Jure Belli Ac Pacis 1625-2025 (The Hague: @unileiden.bsky.social , 19-20 JUN 2025)
esclh.blogspot.com/2025/02/conf...
esclh.blogspot.com/2025/02/conf...
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Centre for law and history research now on Bluesky
This is somewhat 'under construction', but it is high time we had a presence here, so hello Bluesky, and especially #LegalHistory chums out there!
Our web page is at: www.bristol.ac.uk/law/centre-for-law-and-history-research/
Our web page is at: www.bristol.ac.uk/law/centre-for-law-and-history-research/
Centre for Law and History Research
The Centre for Law and History Research highlights the need for historical perspectives in legal scholarship and promotes excellent research into the varied histories of law.
www.bristol.ac.uk
February 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Centre for law and history research now on Bluesky
Slade's Case in two lines? Here you go ...
February 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Slade's Case in two lines? Here you go ...
Bring back two line verse summaries of cases!
#LegalHistory distraction of the day ... fab volume of Coke's Reports in verse. What a wonderful idea that is. Came to see what it had to say about something I'm working on, staying for the brilliantly dreadful poetry! Would love to hear these recited/rapped some day!
February 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Bring back two line verse summaries of cases!
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We're very excited to announce that registration is now 🎉OPEN 🎉 for the @bristolcms.bsky.social PGR conference!
Register using the QR code in the poster, or via this link: shop.bris.ac.uk/conferences-...
We can't wait to see you there! 😀
Register using the QR code in the poster, or via this link: shop.bris.ac.uk/conferences-...
We can't wait to see you there! 😀
February 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
We're very excited to announce that registration is now 🎉OPEN 🎉 for the @bristolcms.bsky.social PGR conference!
Register using the QR code in the poster, or via this link: shop.bris.ac.uk/conferences-...
We can't wait to see you there! 😀
Register using the QR code in the poster, or via this link: shop.bris.ac.uk/conferences-...
We can't wait to see you there! 😀
Medieval legal historians have all the fun! #LegalHistory
Next Thursday!!
If you are in Bristol and want to hear me talk about sex you are in luck. I will be giving a talk called "What Every Medievalist Should Know About Medieval Sex and the Law" at the CMS Research Series on 27 February from 16:00-17:45. Arts Complex Research Room 6. Yay!
February 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Medieval legal historians have all the fun! #LegalHistory
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And next, we are getting a bit methodological, and chatting to some nice historians from @uobrishistory.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2...
www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2...
Methods Exchange: On Legal Historical Study
www.bristol.ac.uk
February 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
And next, we are getting a bit methodological, and chatting to some nice historians from @uobrishistory.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2...
www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2...
Last week was the launch of a fine volume on 'intractable factual uncertainty, by two of our centre's stars.
February 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Last week was the launch of a fine volume on 'intractable factual uncertainty, by two of our centre's stars.