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Inventing Australian women - The Countess
Superb essay on colonising women in Australia past & present by @msediewyatt
@ourcriminalpast @digipanoptic #twitterstorians https://thecountess.ie/inventing-australian-women/
I made a surprising discovery & found that in his youth, my ancestor spent a month in prison with hard labour. What was his crime & why did he do it? What was his experience of prison? #familysecret #Crime #prison @victoriansleuth @ourcriminalpast http://genealogyjude.com/2021/06/12/the-pair-of-boots/
Beverley-York rail route reopening plan examined https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-57352100
Appeal for tales of Hull airship crash which killed 44 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-57260147
Beverley-York rail route reopening plan examined https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-57352100
Guinness and biscuits, ladies. Guinness and biscuits. https://twitter.com/JanetStrath/status/1400554642975727616
Really enjoyed our @Punishment_CRN panel at #LSA2021! 'Punishment and the Legacies of Empire' - with great papers from Florence Seemungal, Paul Khiatani, Smadar Ben-Natan, Mark Brown and Vijay Raghavan & @lizzieseal as discussant. From forthcoming special issue of @Pun_Soc!
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Looking for a creative way to hide your #crime? What about this poison-cupborad hidden in a 16th century #book-binding! The 11 drawers are labeled with names of poisonous #plants. The green glass bottle reads 'Statutum est hominibus semel mori' #manuscript #mementomori
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Crime on the move in the early twentieth century
January 31, 2021Dr Ashley Borrett examines the impact that the rise of the motor vehicle and the increase in transport-related crime had on attitudes to offending in the early part of the twentieth century.
Reformatory and industrial training ships in nineteenth-century UK
January 31, 2021Julie Brumby, from Leeds Beckett University, takes a look at the role reformatory and training ships played in dealing with juvenile criminality in the nineteenth century.
New portraits of the criminal past
May 26, 2020The latest blogs from City Archivist, Phil Astley, who uses the fascinating collection of criminal ‘mugshots’ held by Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives and brings them to life, feature the cases of Neil McPherson, who was a prisoner at Perth, Peterhead and Pentonville, and Catherine Anderson, who was tried twice for child murder.
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