Our Criminal Past
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Orig AHRC funded network, all things crime and penal history, archives, heritage, museums, Heather Shore (MMU) & Helen Johnston (Hull). Opinions own, tweets by HJ. www.ourcriminalancestors.org
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This chapter explores the experiences of, and policies toward, disabled prisoners and prisoners with long-term health conditions in a historical context. How
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New publication: Unfit for Labour: Histories of disability & ill-health in Victorian prisons in great new ed. collection: Routledge Handbook on Disability, Crime & Justice #criminology #disabilityhistory #prisons www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Yesterday I was on The Long View giving historical perspective to current issues in the prison system www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Long View - Criminals on the Loose - BBC Sounds
Jonathan Freedland takes the Long View of presidential candidates who have stood trial.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Yesterday I was on The Long View giving historical perspective to current issues in the prison system www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Another amazing knitted postbox topper in Beverley Wednesday Market #rememberanceday #beverley
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Another amazing knitted postbox topper in Beverley Wednesday Market #rememberanceday #beverley
October 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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From planning their ECR journey to top tips on wellness, tune into #ConfessionsOfAnECR where fellow researchers share their academia survival tips.
Three new episodes now available across all podcasting platforms: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/audio-video/... 🎙️
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Three new episodes now available across all podcasting platforms: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/audio-video/... 🎙️
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October 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
From planning their ECR journey to top tips on wellness, tune into #ConfessionsOfAnECR where fellow researchers share their academia survival tips.
Three new episodes now available across all podcasting platforms: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/audio-video/... 🎙️
@britishacademy.bsky.social
Three new episodes now available across all podcasting platforms: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/audio-video/... 🎙️
@britishacademy.bsky.social
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Coroners in 13th-century England were supposed to view the body of every person who had died unexpectedly BEFORE that person was buried. However, the people of Kent frequently ignored this rule. In fact, between 1248 & 1255 they ignored it no less than 206 times!
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October 22, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Coroners in 13th-century England were supposed to view the body of every person who had died unexpectedly BEFORE that person was buried. However, the people of Kent frequently ignored this rule. In fact, between 1248 & 1255 they ignored it no less than 206 times!
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Lovely October morning in Hull today, welcoming visitors to our great campus @uniofhull.bsky.social #criminology #politics #law
October 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Lovely October morning in Hull today, welcoming visitors to our great campus @uniofhull.bsky.social #criminology #politics #law
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Support our Women’s Centres – Big Give
Women in Prison are raising crucial funds to support our vital women’s centres in Greater Manchester and South London, to deliver specialist trauma and gender informed 1:1 support addressing multiple ...
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October 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Women in Prison - Big Give campaign please share donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
History of Hull Fair www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hull Fair over the years - from freak shows to Instagrammers
Hull Fair is among the largest travelling fairs in Europe and is set to open for its 731st year.
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October 6, 2025 at 6:22 AM
History of Hull Fair www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Found a reference to industrial or reformatory school in your family history? Useful tips here: ourcriminalancestors.org/industrial-a...
Industrial and Reformatory School Registers - Our Criminal Ancestors
Industrial and Reformatory Schools registers contain a great deal of information about the criminal and destitute children who were sent to these institutions from the mid-nineteenth century until 193...
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August 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Found a reference to industrial or reformatory school in your family history? Useful tips here: ourcriminalancestors.org/industrial-a...
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Coroners, communities, and the Crown: mapping death and justice in late medieval England
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August 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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If you are interested in historicising, contextualising, or rewriting #truecrime, join @lizzieseal.bsky.social, me, and our 8+1 speakers!
The conference is free and open but registration is required - see the programme and follow the link 👇
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The conference is free and open but registration is required - see the programme and follow the link 👇
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June 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
If you are interested in historicising, contextualising, or rewriting #truecrime, join @lizzieseal.bsky.social, me, and our 8+1 speakers!
The conference is free and open but registration is required - see the programme and follow the link 👇
drive.google.com/file/d/1tLdN...
The conference is free and open but registration is required - see the programme and follow the link 👇
drive.google.com/file/d/1tLdN...
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The Maps can also be used in teaching – whether it be in school, college, undergraduate, or postgraduate.
If you have used the Medieval Murder Maps, we would love to hear your about your experience.
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If you have used the Medieval Murder Maps, we would love to hear your about your experience.
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Medieval Murder Maps in the Classroom - Medieval Murder Maps
The Medieval Murder Maps are much more than a curiosity or even the basis for research. The Maps can also […]
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June 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The Maps can also be used in teaching – whether it be in school, college, undergraduate, or postgraduate.
If you have used the Medieval Murder Maps, we would love to hear your about your experience.
Get in touch by comment, DM, or email in link below
medievalmurdermap.co.uk/blog/medieva...
If you have used the Medieval Murder Maps, we would love to hear your about your experience.
Get in touch by comment, DM, or email in link below
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If anyone wants to listen, from c.22mins
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Woman's Hour - Child sex abuse gangs, Older surrogacy, Ranking friends - BBC Sounds
Maggie Oliver responds to the announcement of a national inquiry on grooming gangs.
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June 17, 2025 at 6:48 AM
If anyone wants to listen, from c.22mins
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Had a great time on BBC Woman's Hour today. Lovely to meet Nuala and the team
June 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Had a great time on BBC Woman's Hour today. Lovely to meet Nuala and the team
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My paper at the ‘Narratives of Captivity’ conference @northumbriauni.bsky.social looked at narratives of the condemned in the liminal space between death sentence & execution.
To develop this work, I'd really like to work with experts in heritage or corpus linguistics.
To develop this work, I'd really like to work with experts in heritage or corpus linguistics.
Enjoyed hearing @stephemmabrown.bsky.social speak about narratives of liminal space & the shaping of national identity through carcerality, & Alessandra Calanchi discussing domestic entrapment and surveillance in Louisa May Alcott - ‘Narratives of Captivity’ @northumbriauni.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
My paper at the ‘Narratives of Captivity’ conference @northumbriauni.bsky.social looked at narratives of the condemned in the liminal space between death sentence & execution.
To develop this work, I'd really like to work with experts in heritage or corpus linguistics.
To develop this work, I'd really like to work with experts in heritage or corpus linguistics.
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Join us next Wednesday (25/6) 5:30-7:30 in person at the IHR and online for our final seminar of 2024-5 to hear David Turner ( Swansea University) present his paper ‘Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency & Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century’
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Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency and Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century
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June 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Join us next Wednesday (25/6) 5:30-7:30 in person at the IHR and online for our final seminar of 2024-5 to hear David Turner ( Swansea University) present his paper ‘Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency & Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century’
@ihr.bsky.social
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@ihr.bsky.social
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New blog post: Gloucestershire convicts on the notorious Second Fleet to Australia.
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A Brutal Journey: Gloucestershire Convicts on the Second Fleet to Australia, 1789-90
Two years after the First Fleet set off for Australia with its cargo of convicts, the British government decided it was now time to clear the prisons of their troublesome inmates and send another c…
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June 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
New blog post: Gloucestershire convicts on the notorious Second Fleet to Australia.
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🎨Explore the Theresa Roberts Art Collection & its new home at the Wilberforce Institute in this webinar on art, culture & collaboration.
🗣️ Featuring Theresa Roberts, Dr Emma Roberts, Prof Rina Arya & Dr Cassandra Gooptar
📅 Monday 14th July 2025 | 🕒 3pm - 4:30pm
🔗 Book now: bit.ly/43NSqQd
🗣️ Featuring Theresa Roberts, Dr Emma Roberts, Prof Rina Arya & Dr Cassandra Gooptar
📅 Monday 14th July 2025 | 🕒 3pm - 4:30pm
🔗 Book now: bit.ly/43NSqQd
June 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🎨Explore the Theresa Roberts Art Collection & its new home at the Wilberforce Institute in this webinar on art, culture & collaboration.
🗣️ Featuring Theresa Roberts, Dr Emma Roberts, Prof Rina Arya & Dr Cassandra Gooptar
📅 Monday 14th July 2025 | 🕒 3pm - 4:30pm
🔗 Book now: bit.ly/43NSqQd
🗣️ Featuring Theresa Roberts, Dr Emma Roberts, Prof Rina Arya & Dr Cassandra Gooptar
📅 Monday 14th July 2025 | 🕒 3pm - 4:30pm
🔗 Book now: bit.ly/43NSqQd
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Could not have wished for a nicer cohort of New Generation Thinkers. Very excited to see everything that @bethmalory.bsky.social, @lrjdmnr.bsky.social, @reetiks.bsky.social, Sarah Smyth, & Ashleigh Percival-Borley get up to this year 👏🎉
June 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Could not have wished for a nicer cohort of New Generation Thinkers. Very excited to see everything that @bethmalory.bsky.social, @lrjdmnr.bsky.social, @reetiks.bsky.social, Sarah Smyth, & Ashleigh Percival-Borley get up to this year 👏🎉
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We are delighted to welcome Professor Angela McCarthy, Director of the Centre for Global Migrations at the University of Otago and an Honorary Researcher of the Institute.
Angela is visiting from New Zealand as part of her research into Scottish involvement in slavery in the Caribbean.
Angela is visiting from New Zealand as part of her research into Scottish involvement in slavery in the Caribbean.
June 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
We are delighted to welcome Professor Angela McCarthy, Director of the Centre for Global Migrations at the University of Otago and an Honorary Researcher of the Institute.
Angela is visiting from New Zealand as part of her research into Scottish involvement in slavery in the Caribbean.
Angela is visiting from New Zealand as part of her research into Scottish involvement in slavery in the Caribbean.
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Our latest podcast episode on "The Peasant's Revolt of 1381" is now available everywhere podcasts can be found! Take a listen to our discussion on the rebellion which attempted to stand up to the policies of the crown! Let's know what you think by leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts.
The Peasants Revolt of 1381 | Medieval Murder
Today we are talking about the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 which has been labeled by historians as the first great popular rebellion in English History.
Thank you for listening to Medieval Murder! If yo...
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June 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Our latest podcast episode on "The Peasant's Revolt of 1381" is now available everywhere podcasts can be found! Take a listen to our discussion on the rebellion which attempted to stand up to the policies of the crown! Let's know what you think by leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts.
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Great to see a publication date for the Routledge Handbook of Jack the Ripper Studies.
The chapter by @ourcriminalpast.bsky.social and I examines the extent to which discussions of this case matched developing schools of criminological thought at the time
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The chapter by @ourcriminalpast.bsky.social and I examines the extent to which discussions of this case matched developing schools of criminological thought at the time
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
The Routledge Handbook of Jack the Ripper Studies
In offering a holistic analysis of the vast array of evidence and literature pertaining to the Whitechapel Murders committed in London’s East-End in the Autumn of 1888, this volume offers a multi-disc...
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June 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Great to see a publication date for the Routledge Handbook of Jack the Ripper Studies.
The chapter by @ourcriminalpast.bsky.social and I examines the extent to which discussions of this case matched developing schools of criminological thought at the time
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
The chapter by @ourcriminalpast.bsky.social and I examines the extent to which discussions of this case matched developing schools of criminological thought at the time
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
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Staffordshire Archives have a huge amount of oral recordings of #BoatFamilies. Finding out how to access those is on my list of things to do...
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#OnePlaceWednesday
June 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Staffordshire Archives have a huge amount of oral recordings of #BoatFamilies. Finding out how to access those is on my list of things to do...
#OnePlaceWednesday
#OnePlaceWednesday