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From Coroners’ Rolls to the Classroom: Engaging Students with the Medieval Murder Map

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Dr Stephanie Brown, University of Hull s.brown6@hull.ac.uk @stephemmabrown.bsky.social How can a map of medieval homicides help teach about law, violence and society? In lots of ways, actually. The Medieval Murder Map is an innovative digital humanities project that visualises homicides drawn from the coroners’ rolls of three English towns: London, York, and Oxford. Entries of … Continued

Sympathy for the Robber: Stories of Crime in Early Modern England

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Dr Lena Liapi, Keele University e.liapi@keele.ac.uk @LenaLiapi While doing research for my book on rogue pamphlets (narratives of criminals in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), I came upon the case of James Turner. As a solicitor who had defrauded many of his clients, Turner was an unlikeable character. Even more egregiously, he betrayed a friend’s … Continued