Great event. Thanks to all who participated!

200 years ago today 3 sailors and 4 onlookers were shot dead by troops in Sunderland. I've been working with local historians and David Gordon Scott (OU) to raise awareness of this little-known massacre. Today we gathered to mark the bicentenary with speeches and the naming of the dead. (1/2)

1826 - Chief Justice of the King's Bench complains that Jurymen have had their pockets picked and their hats pinched while attending the court! Paging; @thegozfather.bsky.social

discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6...

In 1822, 19 Kentish smugglers were tried at maidstone assizes - 5 were transported, 10 were held aboard the hulks for years, and four were hanged on Penenden Heath before a huge crowd.

Find out more about what smuggling gangs were up to in #19thC Britain and the state's attempt to suppress them 👇

#18thC #petition for patronage and a job as a customs boatman; 'I honestly inform you that a situation where there is much writing or Schoolership [sic] wanted will not answer'. I hear you bro... #dyslexia (?)

Letter from a former Chief Constable in the mos recent LRB claiming that the last time the Riot Act (1714) was read was Feb 1967 at Stockport. Seems plausible to me! @katrinanavickas.bsky.social @timhitchcock.bsky.social #skystorians