Interpreters at the Old Bailey. Perhaps an interesting topic for a #twitterstorian Old Bailey Online oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=…

Sharon Howard Old Bailey Online has there been anything written about having juries made up of 'foreigners'?

Katrina Navickas 🇱🇹🇺🇦 Sharon Howard Old Bailey Online I've come across references to Welsh and Yiddish translators in London courts

Katrina Navickas 🇱🇹🇺🇦 Sharon Howard Old Bailey Online the Cornish Stannary Courts, by a 1305 charter, granted the privilege of tinners being tried by a jury of other tinners (for mining suits) and half tinner/half "foreigner" (for non-mining suits). "Foreigner" here meaning not a Cornish tinner

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Katrina Navickas 🇱🇹🇺🇦 Old Bailey Online There's some interesting evidence about translators being used for deposition in the equity courts 16th-early 17th century.

Katrina Navickas 🇱🇹🇺🇦 Sharon Howard Old Bailey Online Just found a hospital porter called William Allan at Westminster being called as interpreter on behalf of Mohammed Ali Khan, from Junagadh, following a suicide attempt (IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS!) in 1860.

We’re launching our #CFP today for our first women in #legalhistory event, funded by The SLS and coming up later this year. Abstracts and queries to [email protected] by 21 April. Tell a friend!

Giving an 'approaches to research' lecture to 2nd yrs about a) what I do (for supervision) and b) what sources/databases I use and they could use. But I need a seminar task that gets them thinking about how primary material could become a dissertation. Any ideas?

How Tattoos Became Fashionable in Victorian London. Online talk Monday evening by Prof Bob Shoemaker. Places still available. #RT #tattoos Old Bailey Online eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-tattoos-…

‘A Single to Sydney’ - a tale of London’s women convicts historylondon.org/londons-women-…

How do we know what eggs cost in the 18th century? People stole them, and Courts would list the prices of stolen goods. Here are some examples from @oldbaileyonline.bsky.social From these, we can see that 60 eggs are about 4 shillings.

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It's here!

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Congratulations to the amazing Old Bailey Online for their newest updates! In happy coincidence, one of our project team members just wrote about executions in the Bills of Mortality and cross-referenced them with data from the Old Bailey Online : deathbynumbers.org/2023/11/27/com…

"She was a book thief and a genealogist, c. 1743" - what a title! For a fascinating research note from Karin Wulf, drawing on the newly relaunched Old Bailey Online records! #familyhistory #bookhistory #genealogy #C18 karinwulf.com/trove/she-was-…

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Another shout out for my new blog post, including 18thc highwaymen, gibbets, shootouts & salty language! dralun.wordpress.com/2024/02/16/the… Research at Exeter Exeter History Old Bailey Online #travelhistory