All Outputs (9)

In remembrance of the bloody fact: Coins, public execution and the gibbet in Hanoverian England (2023)
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Noteworthy eighteenth and nineteenth century public hangings were often marked by the circulation of associative souvenirs, and sometimes of coins. Some, like those professionally minted to mark the execution of James Blomfield Rush in 1849, restrict... Read More about In remembrance of the bloody fact: Coins, public execution and the gibbet in Hanoverian England.

Written on the walls of the town: Chalking graffiti in Bristol, 1730-1930 (2021)
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"Some examples should be made": Prosecuting reform bill rioters in 1831-32 (2018)
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Following the House of Lords’ rejection of the parliamentary Reform Bill in the autumn of 1831, severe rioting broke out in a number of English towns. In the judicial retribution that followed, some 259 people were prosecuted, seven of them hanged an... Read More about "Some examples should be made": Prosecuting reform bill rioters in 1831-32.

The politics of 'protest heritage', 1790-1850 (2018)
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Acts and marks of commemoration, from anniversary dinners to monuments and statues, were vital components in the production of English democratic culture in the ‘age of revolutions’. But strategies for remembering were not always consensual and refor... Read More about The politics of 'protest heritage', 1790-1850.

'For the benefit of example': Crime scene executions in England, 1720-1830 (2015)
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Progressive accounts of the English encounter between capital punishment and modernity have made much of the abandonment c. 1783-1800 of lengthy processions to customary sites on urban peripheries and their replacement with drop systems on elevated p... Read More about 'For the benefit of example': Crime scene executions in England, 1720-1830.

More like savages than men: Foreign sailors and knife crime in nineteenth century Bristol (2013)
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Not precedents to be followed but examples to be weighed: John Thelwall and the Jacobin sense of the past (2009)
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Essay critically examining the historical writing and historiographical theory of the English radical Jacobin, John Thelwall (1764-1834), and contextualising it within English 18th century historical practice and methodology.

The character and reputation of an acquitted felon (2009)
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Introductory essay to edited collection on the life and work of John Thelwall (1764-1834).

Always something wanting: The troubled history of the British moonlight (2008)
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A short catalogue essay on the critical reception of British moonlight painting c.1720-1860.