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Criminal Portraits: January 2021 most recent blog from @AbdnArchives https://criminalportraits.blogspot.com/2021/01/
‘The weakness of the dangerous classes’: attitudes to poverty are at the heart of my teaching this term http://thepolicemagistrate.blog/2021/01/09/the-weakness-of-the-dangerous-classes-attitudes-to-poverty-are-at-the-heart-of-my-teaching-this-term/
Postcards from Ferris & Company, Druggists 💊 sent to Frederick Hurst Craddock, Medical Superintendent of the Gloucester County Asylum regarding orders ~ 1890 and 1891.
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*Important News* https://twitter.com/ihr_history/status/1348632111314571269
Irish government to apologise over mother-and-baby homes https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55622548
From Essex to Australia: the story of convict Jeremiah #crime #history http://www.criminalhistorian.com/from-essex-to-australia-the-story-of-convict-jeremiah/
Great to see this published and in good company - the other articles sound fascinating https://twitter.com/history_law/status/1346133769368072192
Incidentally, this is her Notice of Admission into the asylum.
3CDV of Sussex County Lunatic Asylum, Haywards Heath showing a good view of the side and back of it.
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Portraits of the criminal past
May 26, 2020A new blog devoted to a fascinating collection of criminal ‘mugshots’ held by Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives has been launched by City Archivist, Phil Astley.
Bastardy before the courts in nineteenth-century Hull
March 16, 2020Dr Joanne Chilman looks at bastardy cases that came before the courts in Hull during the nineteenth century to reveal the rich history of the women and families involved in these courtroom trials.
Crime, criminality and the provincial press
March 16, 2020In his latest blog, Dr Ashley Borrett examines the pages of the provincial press and reveals the ‘voices’ of some of the key players in the crime and criminal justice debates of interwar Hull.
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