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If I didn't have a job already I would totally apply for this RA/project manager post on the Intoxicating Spaces project. #earlymodern 🍺 https://t.co/3OxAg7Pd0I
My great uncle Jesse Sweet, and my great-grandparents Esther and Alfred, caused trouble in the Welsh valleys in the 1930s. Jesse was given 9 months hard labour by Justice Branson - grandfather of @richardbranson. https://t.co/iOuKsTYGFg
With the interpretation of Old Bailey cases in the news, a reminder that I use @OldBaileyOnline in class & wrote a thing about it once
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Wow! This policeman's notebook dates from 1869, making it 150 years old! We're transcribing it to preserve the content - we love the memo "moustaches"! Amazing to think that @EssexPoliceUK, or Essex County Constabulary as it was then known, was only 30 years old at the time!
2Latest Blogs
Tracing gang members – the complicated case of Charles ‘Darby’ Sabini
May 14, 2019With the Peaky Blinders set to return to our screens later this year, Prof Heather Shore takes a look at the complicated lives of one of the families that has featured in the series, the Sabinis.
Figuring out the past: crime statistics as social history
March 4, 2019What can crime statistics tell us about the past? PhD researcher, Ashley Borrett, examines the interwar crime rates for Hull to find out more.
WDYTYA? Our Criminal Ancestors in 50 Family History websites to watch in 2019
February 12, 2019Our Criminal Ancestors features in Who Do You Think You Are? magazine’s 50 websites to watch in 2019.
Upcoming Events
Rethinking the Death Penalty: Mitigation, Abolition and After
June 19, 20192019 is the fiftieth anniversary of the permanent abolition of the death penalty for murder in Great Britain. To mark the occasion, this seminar will provide an opportunity to examine the past, present and future of the death penalty.