I’m really proud to announce that my John Roberts article has finally been published. After more than 13 years of work, today the article was published in Volume 12 of Law, Crime and History. ‘Patronage, Recusancy and Malfeasance in the Early Modern Prison System: A New Source Related to Saint John Roberts and Robert Cecil’…

This is third in a series of three posts about the Social History Society Conference. On Wednesday I woke up early and couldn’t get back to sleep. This gave me plenty of chance to ponder what we’d heard so far. That morning I chaired a panel in the Environment, Heritage, Spaces, and Places strand: ‘Landscape, Environment…

This is the second in a series of three posts about the SHS conference in Durham. Day 2 broke dull and damp, but breakfast was excellent, and afterwards I wandered down in the rain to the venue for the first panel. I had planned to go to one of the panels with two early modern…

It’s been a busy spring and summer. This is the first in a short series of posts about the Social History Society Conference in Durham. At the beginning of July it was off to Durham for the Social History Society Conference. I drove up, because the trains would have taken me twice as long and…