#CfP Just over a week left to submit an abstract for our FREE 1-day conference 'Broken Bonds: New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969'. Online & in-person @northumbriauni.bsky.social on 20 April 2026 #history #familylaw #divorce #legalhist #law #marriage
📢New publication📖
'Law and medicine: a history in three acts', written with the very fabulous Jonathan Reinarz and Gayle Davis 🗃️ It's part of Atina Krajewska and Jean McHale's edited collection, Reimagining Health Law.
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
#LegalHist #HistSTM #HistPsych #HistLaw
#History #legalhist #divorce #familylaw #CfP One-day conference on marital breakdown in the English Common Law world 1801-1969' Online & in-person @northumbriauni.bsky.social 20 April 2026. Keynote = former President of the Supreme Court, Baroness Hale. Bursaries available for PhDs/ECRs/unfunded!
#CfP on all aspects of #divorce and #marital breakdown at the FREE 1-day conference 'Broken Bonds: New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969'. Online & in-person @northumbriauni.bsky.social on 20 April 2026 #history #familylaw #legalhist #law #marriage
A repost for the breakfast crowd ☕🥐
See below for details of a CfP on all aspects of #divorce and #marital breakdown @northumbriauni.bsky.social, Newcastle on 20 April 2026.
#PhD #ECR & unfunded bursaries available for speakers. **Abstract deadline 2 Feb 2026**
#history #legalhist #law #marriage
Niche Q. for #histsex #legalhist folks who can hopefully point me to some reading. I'm working on a case of alleged same-sex activity between 2 men in C18th New Hampshire. Much time is spent asking about *where* emission happened: skin or shirt. Is there a legal difference here re the body? TIA
1960s black and white photo of two women in police uniform. Both have metal and cloth masks across their mouths and noses.
🚨 #Skystorians of accidents, environmental health, drink, drugs, sex, crime, #police 🚨
CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
[typo in desc': we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution]
#HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed
Two uniformed 1960s London police women looking to the left with metal and gauze masks over their mouths and noses.
🚨Historians of drink, drugs, sex, crime, law, #police🚨
CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
[typo in description: we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution]
#HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed
CFP: Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition. Deadline: June 20, 2025. #cdnhist #legalhist #competition
the #cfp is now open for Women's History Assoc Ireland Annual Conf #WHAI. Theme is Women & Loss (in its many forms)- see here tinyurl.com/5h3c8kr7 #History #WomensHistory #GenderHist #MedHist #MedHums #LegalHist #Twitterstorians - pls share with interested colleagues, thanks!
Lovely view of the Brecon Beacons as I flew home from Bristol #blhc2024 It was a great week at the 2024 British Legal History Conference, with so many fantastic papers, events, & opportunities to discuss #legalhist. Thanks to all involved in organising this conference. See you in Nottingham in 2026!
Great new #Osiris issue out on #Disability & #HistSci. Sadly, paywalled. #histodons #legalHist https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/current
New on @HSciMedTech:
Check out @CourtneyMrazek’s review of C. Elizabeth Koester (@UofT)’s book _ In the Public Good: #Eugenics and Law in Ontario_, published in 2021 by @McGillQueensUP
#HSTM #HistMed #LegalHist
Review available @HNet_Reviews...
Weekend reading on @BurnsHistory: The brilliant @DrKDWatson guest blogs - 'Blinded by Jealousy: Vitriol Throwing in Victorian Britain' http://forgedbyfiresite.wordpress.com/2021/06/21/bli…
#Twitterstorians #HistCrime #CrimeHist #LegalHist #HistMed #HistSTM
New on @BurnsHistory today: guest blog by @CiaraBreath - a reminder to keep safe inside as well as out
#Twitterstorians #IrishHist #HistSTM #HistMed #LawHist #LegalHist
thought about #SafeTea while you're #StayHomeStaySafe?
#LawHist #LegalHist #Twitterstorians #HistChild
"What were the consequences of being caught enslaving people in a state where it was illegal? https://redd.it/4m2ypd #AmHist #LegalHist"
"What's the legal history of #dueling? https://redd.it/4k518e #LegalHist"
RT askhistorians "Did #SCOTUS Justice Taft ever recuse himself over a law he signed while President? https://redd.it/4bhryh #LegalHist"