All Outputs (7)

More than Horrible Histories: Engaging the public with criminal justice past and present (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In 2018 Dorset Shire Hall, an eighteenth-century courthouse, opened as a museum dedicated to the development of the criminal law, and as a centre for public engagement with notions of justice and injustice, past and present. As an academic historian,... Read More about More than Horrible Histories: Engaging the public with criminal justice past and present.

Prosecution, precedence and official memory: Judicial responses and perceptions of Swing in Norfolk (2018)
Book Chapter

This chapter offers a different perspective on the themes of the politics of memory and contested meanings of protest. It considers the perceptions and responses of the authorities to social unrest, and their role in shaping subsequent understandings... Read More about Prosecution, precedence and official memory: Judicial responses and perceptions of Swing in Norfolk.

Shire Hall historic courthouse museum (2018)
Exhibition / Performance

The relationship between magistrates and their communities in the age of crisis: Social protest c. 1790-1834 (2016)
Thesis

Yate (2015)
Book

A comprehensive history of the parish of Yate from its earliest record to the present day. This work forms part of the Victoria History of Gloucestershire, and the first ‘VCH Short’ produced in the county.

‘We do not come here...to inquire into grievances; we come here to decide law’: Prosecuting Swing in Norfolk and Somerset 1829-1832 (2010)
Journal Article

The repressive sentences handed down by the Special Commissions in the wake of the Swing disturbances, have somewhat eclipsed the prosecution of offenders at county quarter sessions and regular Assize courts. In neglecting this avenue of research, we... Read More about ‘We do not come here...to inquire into grievances; we come here to decide law’: Prosecuting Swing in Norfolk and Somerset 1829-1832.

More than Horrible Histories: A manifesto for effective and ethical interpretation of criminal justice histories
Preprint / Working Paper