Programme
10:00-10:15 Refreshments and Opening Remarks
10:15-12:00 Session 1: Digitising Crime and Penal Histories
Tim Hitchcock, ‘Digitising Criminal Justice: Past, Present and Future’
Sharon Howard, ‘Bloody Code: Reflecting on a Decade of Old Bailey Online and the Digital Future of Our Criminal Past’
Hamish Maxwell Stewart, ‘Founders and Survivors: Using Digital Technologies to Explore the Long Run Impact of Convict Transportation’
(Chair and Commentator: Pam Cox)
12:00-13:15 Lunch
13:15-15:00 Session 2: Historians of Crime and Social Media
Zoe Alker, ‘Using New Social Media Technologies in Teaching Victorian Crime’
Adam Crymble, ‘How Blogging and Tweeting Make Me a Better Historian of Crime’
Lesley Hulonce, ‘From the Local to the Global: Victorian Child Poverty and Crime on the Blogosphere’
Lucy Williams, ‘Writing WaywardWomen: A Digital Discussion of the History of Female Offending’
(Chair and Commentator: John Carter Wood)
15:00-15:15 Comfort Break
15:15-16:00 Session 3: Roundtable – Current Challenges and New Directions
Speakers: Barry Godfrey, Liz Hore (National Archives), Helen Rogers
Event Reviews:
Event Review by Dr Zoe Alker, Liverpool John Moores University