SOLON Law, Crime and History - Volume 5 - 2015
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Why Everything We Know About Criminal Justice History is Wrong
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On the Beat: Stories from 1914-1918: A Fresh Approach to interpreting Crime History at Bishop’s Stortford Museum
(University of Plymouth Press, 2015)Following the donation of a rare collection of policing documents from World War I, Bishop’s Stortford Museum displayed these remarkable accounts in a temporary exhibition entitled ‘On the Beat: The Great War 1914-1918.’2 ... -
Narrating ‘Our Criminal Past’ at Greater Manchester Police Museum and Archives in the Context of the UK Government Funded Tackling Knives Action Programme (TKAP) 2009-2011
(University of Plymouth Press, 2015)The Tackling Knives Action Programme (TKAP) ran in England and Wales from 2008-2011 and aimed to reduce serious violence involving youths through nationwide and local initiatives. At Greater Manchester Police (GMP) Museum ... -
Digital Histories of Crime and Research-Based Teaching and Learning
(University of Plymouth Press, 2015)The proliferation of digitised primary sources has created exciting possibilities for those of us teaching undergraduate modules on crime and punishment in nineteenth century England and Wales. In this article, we reflect ... -
The Digital Classroom: New Social Media and Teaching Victorian Crime
(University of Plymouth Press, 2015)This article explores the implications of student blogging in undergraduate crime history module, Prison Voices: Crime, Conviction and Confession 1700-1900. Public blogging as assessment trains students to become creators ... -
Blogging Our Criminal Past: Social Media, Public Engagement and Creative History
(University of Plymouth Press, 2015)Rather than asking should historians use social media - a question frequently posed online and increasingly discussed in seminars and conferences - this article explores how historians currently use blogging and micro-blogging, ... -
Writing Wayward Women: Why Blog the History of Victorian England’s Female Offenders?
(University of Plymouth Press, 2015)This article considers the multiple uses of academic research blogs for crime historians with particular reference to graduate students and early career researchers. Research focussed blogs help to develop the ideas and ... -
Height, Crime and Colonial History
(University of Plymouth Press, 2015)Since the 1970s historians interested in the impact of changing social and economic conditions on health outcomes have studied record collections that contain information about adult stature. Fluctuations in mean height ... -
Bloody Code: Reflecting on a Decade of the Old Bailey Online and the Digital Futures of Our Criminal Past
(University of Plymouth Press, 2015)The Old Bailey Online was conceived at the turn of the millennium and has been online since 2003. In this article, I reflect on its evolution and its impact on crime history and digital history, and I explore some key ... -
Thinking about the Future of Our Criminal Past
(University of Plymouth Press, 2015)
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