Preserving Our Past

Our own Prof Shore (@ourcriminalpast), is in this month's @HistoryExtra talking about the idea of the Victorian underworld:

A must read for anyone interested in the "underworld" from a very thoughtful and astute historian. Before we imagined professional crime as #organizedcrime, we thought of it as an underworld - and some still do #twitterstorians. https://t.co/JTu4J8gAae

An everyday tale of death from caressing a mad cat. #history #1820s #research #newspapers #hydrophobia #death

Very excited for this! #historyofcrime #victorians https://t.co/SWwyWOeaKP

Prison food - 1900. @No1govhmpnotts @Thursley @LEICSVCHT @WMPHistory

#Transcribe the prison record of Ah Koon imprisoned for burglary in 1895 #twitterstorians https://t.co/WxHSti0MRT

Stumbled on this very familiar trial from @OldBaileyOnline today https://t.co/SRF2n3ROLB -case resulting from infamous 1885 Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon. Found myself wondering, not for the first time, what became of little Eliza Armstrong when it was all over? #ESRCvictims

I feel inspired to research some women but there were no female police detectives in 19th century England, so I’m investigating the lives of detectives’ wives, as they were generally overlooked. I’m starting with Amelia Caminada. #womenshistory

An 1861 survey named all the 14,000+ adult workhouse inmates in England & Wales who had been resident for 5+ years. Now all listed via links under the 'Inmates' section on each union's web page on https://t.co/hunTf5jT7y