The Historian 166: Crime and punishment
The magazine of the Historical Association
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Contents
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 Coroners, communities, and the Crown: mapping death and justice in late medieval England – Stephanie Emma Brown (Read article - open access)
11 Mercurial justice: a Jesuit chaplain’s view of life in the prisons of sixteenth-century Seville – Clare Burgess (Read article)
16 James Macpherson: a Scottish Robin Hood – Anne-Marie Kilday (Read article)
20 Schools of Vice: how a medical scandal led to the dismantling of Britain’s last prison hulks – Anna McKay (Read article)
26 Finding Bad Bridget: the lives and crimes of Irish immigrant women in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America – Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick (Read article)
31 Out and About: Locating the Local Lockup – Rosalind Crone (Read article)
34 Ask The Historian
36 Imperial spaces of a ‘miniature world’: the case of Rugby School, c.1828–1850 – Holly Hiscox (Read article)
42 Decoding medieval pilgrimage – Luke Daly (Read article)
47 From our branches: Conwy Borough Branch – Morgan Ditchburn and Gemma Campbell (Read article)
50 Real Lives: A German captain’s perspective on the end of WWI: The letters of Captain Christian Wachtel – Kaleb Peeters (Read article)
52 Doing history: Contemporary narratives and the legacy of the Dagenham Ford Factory Strike of 1968 – Zubin Burley (Read article)
54 In conversation with Lyndal Roper – Tom Hamilton and Lyndal Roper (Read article)
58 Reviews
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Cover image: Abraham Bosse, Gentry Visiting a Prison (seventeenth century)
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