HIST-3476 Workshop #2

Slides for Thursday, 29 February: Workshop #2 (Old Bailey Online Quantitative Analysis) as PDF.

Old Bailey Project #2 Assignment Guide (PDF).

Reading Evaluation: list of article options for #2 & #3.

Options for #2 (Due not March 7 but March 15 or later)

• Callahan, Kathy. “On the Receiving End: Women and Stolen Goods in London 1783-1815.” The London Journal 37, no. 2 (2012): 106–21. https://doi.org/10.1179/174963212X13345262125678./li>
• Milka, Amy. “Feeling for Forgers: Character, Sympathy and Financial Crime in London during the Late Eighteenth Century.” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 42, no. 1 (2019): 7–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12566.
• Shoemaker, Robert B. “Sympathy for the Criminal: The Criminal Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century London.” Crime, Histoire & Sociétés / Crime, History & Societies 24, no. 1 (October 30, 2020): 5–28. https://doi.org/10.4000/chs.2677.
• Warner, Jessica, Kathryn Graham, and Edward Adlaf. “Women Behaving Badly: Gender and Aggression in a Military Town, 1653–1781.” Sex Roles 52, no. 5 (March 1, 2005): 289–98. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-005-2673-6.

Options for #3 (Originally Due April 8)

• Ainsley, Jill Newton. “‘Some Mysterious Agency’: Women, Violent Crime, and the Insanity Acquittal in the Victorian Courtroom.” Canadian Journal of History 35, no. 1 (April 2000): 37–56. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.35.1.37.
• Gray, Drew. “Gang Crime and the Media in Late Nineteenth-Century London: The Regent’s Park Murder of 1888.” Cultural and Social History 10, no. 4 (2013): 559–75. https://doi.org/10.2752/147800413X13727009732209.
• Handler, Phil. “Forging the Agenda: The 1819 Select Committee on the Criminal Laws Revisited.” The Journal of Legal History 25, no. 3 (2004): 249–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144036042000290717.
• Poole, Steve. “‘A Lasting and Salutary Warning’: Incendiarism, Rural Order and England’s Last Scene of Crime Execution.” Rural History 19, no. 2 (October 2008): 163–77. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793308002471.

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