Legal History
For people working on legal history, and the history of crime, law, policing, social control, and violence.
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@kfduggan.bsky.social
@adambforsyth.bsky.social
PhD student at Cambridge. I study the legal, political, ecclesiastical, & intellectual history of England in the 16th & 17th centuries, & history of the book! Views strictly my own. 独立之精神，自由之思想 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/adam-b-forsyth
@ajt55.bsky.social
@immorebitschek.bsky.social
Historian of Eastern Europe, Stalinism, Soviet law & criminal justice, Russian imperial famine relief and humanitarianism... and the NBA (go Mavs 🏀!) @uni-jena.de https://uni-jena.academia.edu/ImmoRebitschek
@unamcilvenna.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
@kris-inwood.bsky.social
Economic historian @UoGuelph w broad social science & historical interests: population health, First Nations demography, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴 Editing Social Science History & Asia-Pacific Econ History
@azzab.bsky.social
Historian of police forces, anti-labour movements, and gun control @DISSGEA (Unipd) - @LARHRA Writing a book about strikebreaking, guns and private policing in 20th Century France https://unipd.academia.edu/AndreaAzzarelli
@misssamperrin.bsky.social
Cemetery historian & guide to London's dead. I offer historical walks & talks via @tempusfugithistory.bsky.social ⌛🪽 🏳️🌈
@dasmith.bsky.social
Historian of business and law, and the history of human cooperation. Writing on corruption and polarization, markets and morality, early modern smuggling, and the history of responsible businesses. Sailing in my free time. Check out www.davidchansmith.net
@timlubin.bsky.social
Historian of religion and law in premodern S&SE Asia, Sanskrit & Old Javanese philologist, interdisciplinarian, art spouse. Head of Law, Justice & Society program at WLU. VP of American Society for Premodern Asia. https://timothylubin.net/
@daraghjgrant.bsky.social
UChicago. Early American history; colonialism and empire; legal history; history of political thought. https://www.daraghjgrant.com
@katisasch.bsky.social
“Artificial Justice" Research Group Leader @maxplancklaw | legal history & history of science | legal modernism | law and AI
@hwygiera.bsky.social
Researcher of religion, law, and crime in early modern England SSHRC funded PhD student at the University of Calgary
@marxologist.bsky.social
history & intellectual history | legal history & theory | political & economic thought | marx recently completed a Masters thesis on Marx's legal education at UNSW, now formulating a PhD project on Soviet jurisprudence
@kaycrosby.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in law. History of the jury. Trying to raise two good people. She/her. My employer shares none of my views. ‘Are you impervious to everything?!’ - man who had just kicked me in the leg. ‘The Whore of Babylon’ - some angry man.
@earlymodjustice.bsky.social
Historian http://earlymodernjustice.org/ Sample articles: https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/ https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf Opinions my own
@medievalfemina.bsky.social
Professor of Medieval Studies, Lincoln, formerly at Canterbury. Passionate about medieval women, queenship, the thirteenth century, English medieval government, medieval aristocratic life styles, medieval records, and Magna Carta. Views my own.
@emeffem.bsky.social
Medievalist/ italianist/ tennist, associate prof UNC-Chapel Hill, Boccaccio, prose and other cons. Up with the stars
@majben.bsky.social
Historian at C2DH (University of Luxembourg) Mainly publishing on the history of psychiatry and the history of the financial place in Luxembourg
@statutes.bsky.social
Opening up Historic British Law and Legislation and digitally deforming it
@jboothhistory.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Law, CU Boulder Current projects: The Legal Architecture of Emancipation Studying Policing from a Law and Political Economy Perspective jonathonbooth.com
@willpooley.bsky.social
historian of witchcraft, folklore, tarot, france, 18-20th c creative histories ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic assoc. ed. @FrenchHistory aspiring acronymancer
@timhitchcock.bsky.social
Historian of 18th century London; Professor Emeritus of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
@crosehistorian.bsky.social
early modernist | 16th and 17thC Italy | HGIS | history of violence and justice | assoc prof @ BrockU | loud Canadian
@mpbreen21.bsky.social
Historian of early modern French law & society at Reed College. Prattles on about history, dogs, politics, soccer, & hoops. H-France Editor-in-Chief (www.h-france.net)
@henryyeomans.bsky.social
Historical criminologist specialising in all things alcohol. Professor of Criminology at University of Leeds. Once described as bearing a 'striking resemblance to Peter Beardsley'.
@amyhelenbell.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Britain: WW2, murder, forensics, female criminals. Latest book- Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Wartime London (Yale, 2024). Likes cakes.
@micahcarlson.bsky.social
-PhD Candidate and adjunct professor of #History. -#Dissertation on #ghosts and #ghoststories in the U.S. South. -Expert at responding to bruh and petting cats -Posts do not reflect the views of my employer or degree-granting institution -Sometimes funny
@jbenmenachem.com
criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociology phd candidate @ columbia. @swcolumbia.bsky.social
@rotiroti.bsky.social
Legal Scholar, Historian, Classicist – Legal Theory & History, Antiquity & Early Middle Ages, Classics, Early Christianity, Video Games – https://unicz.academia.edu/FrancescoRotiroti
@gzornetta.bsky.social
lecturer in Medieval History at DiSSGeA - University of Padova / editor at Reti Medievali and I Quaderni del Maes
@kmhemphill.bsky.social
Historian of gender and sexuality. 🌈 Opinions my own and not representative of my employer.
@herstoryprof.bsky.social
Feminist historian, dog-mom, book-lover. She/her. “Sex Matters: Katharine Bement Davis and the Study of Women’s Sexuality before Kinsey” f/c from NYU Press. More at anyajabour.com.
@rblakebrown.bsky.social
History Professor at Saint Mary's University & Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie's Schulich School of Law. Historian of Canadian law, gun control and medical malpractice. Profile: https://www.smu.ca/history/history-blake-brown.html
@hallierubenhold.bsky.social
Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
@nabalkattu.bsky.social
McLeod Chair of Classics, Dalhousie University. "A laid-back country picker with a laid-back country mind" Ancient Semitic languages and religions, Jewish Studies, and Liberation Philology. Nova Scotia and California.
@gowder.io
Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter. Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
@dimitrinakassis.bsky.social
Greek archaeologist, Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder; Michigan (BA 1997) & Texas (PhD 2006) grad
@kataplexis.bsky.social
Ancient Historian and Professor. First gen, public school, state college kid teaching at a SLAC. I like books, music, movies, and being in the Mediterranean (sailing and researching). PhD OSU, BA UCSD.
@susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social
Historian of Early Modern European Legal & Political Thought, Renaissance, Italian Wars, Humanist Jurisprudence, Jus Gentium, Legal History, & History of Human Rights Jus Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence: On Justice and Right (DOI: 10.1163/97890045237
@satisfactory20.bsky.social
Archives, history, heritage. Women and Parliament. #NecessaryWomen. London. COYS
@renskejanssen.bsky.social
Law, Religion & Power in the Ancient World | Tacitus | Classics and Ancient History | Editor-in-chief of Dutch-language series 'Wegen naar Rome' (Roads to Rome) on Antiquity in Popular Culture | Leiden (NL) | She/her | Posts in Dutch and English
@katebradleyhistory.bsky.social
Reader in social history & social policy at the Uni of Kent - Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. 20th & 21st justice, welfare, technology, crime. Views mine. She/her.
@zwhitehistory.bsky.social
Historian, podcaster, battlefield guide Leverhulme Research Fellow with Portsmouth Uni: Napoleonic era warfare, crime, race & society Founder of The Napoleonic & Revolutionary War Graves Charity Host of The Napoleonic Wars Podcast Views my own
@robertsmartino.bsky.social
Medieval & Early Modern Historian (PhD Nottingham 2020). Writes about C16 Church Courts. Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Lincoln. Once a lawyer. Still overweight. Increasingly bald. Never keen on Fascists. Philogynist.
@brionyneilson.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-century France—incarceration of juveniles, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia). Book out soon "Dangers of Youth" www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php. Based in Sydney, Australia
@sianhibbert.bsky.social
(Almost finished) History PhD at Uni of York - early modern France, interpersonal violence, disputes and enmities, gender, social relations, urban and rural communities.
@amandajsummers.bsky.social
Not aspiring to be humble. PhD @TempleUHistory - LatAm/Caribbean, Iberian Empires, Inquisition, Incarceration, Body, Gender, Sex, Death.
@drjenniferaston.bsky.social
Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC. York and Newcastle.
@tombhamilton.bsky.social
Historian of early modern France and Europe; crime, justice, gender, Wars of Religion; co-editor of French History; structuralish 📖📚 ⚖️🌳🏃🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺
@medievalhistorian.bsky.social
Historian of England c. 1400-17??; law, society, economy, trade; Associate Dean & Prof. Fan of ice hockey, scotch, Warhammer, Battletech, & naps. He/him/his/ipse/eius/eum. Views are my own, retweets are not endorsements, beware of sarcasm
@elisewang.bsky.social
medievalist. law & literature (old) | conspiracy theories (old and new) | taiwan (new and yet to be) carnegie fellow ‘24-‘26 The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature https://shorturl.at/dLTAv
@lizpappkamali.bsky.social
Professor at Harvard Law. Author of Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England. English Legal History. Criminal Law. Greenhorn gardener.
@keithruiter.bsky.social
Medievalist | likes law, normativity, transgression, & other Viking Age oddities (also has a life outside work) | Senior Lecturer at University of Suffolk | Hon. Assistant Prof at Centre for the Study of the Viking Age | PhD | he/they
@aliped.bsky.social
Historian: Victorian social history, 19C female criminal insanity and asylums & own family history. Hon Research Fellow Roehampton Uni. Exiled Wirralite/plastic-scouse LFC Mostly happily married!
@loreldridge.bsky.social
Assistant Prof in Private Law, Cambridge. Founding member Selden's Sister. Land law, medieval law, historical jurisprudence. AFHEA. She/her. Personal account.
@meghanhwoolley.bsky.social
Historian and writing instructor studying emotions and law in 12th and 13th-century England.
@gfemenia.bsky.social
Law Library Director and Associate Professor at Temple Beasley School of Law. Former medievalist and fan of archaic information technologies. She/her/hers
@gwenseabourne.bsky.social
#LegalHistory prof, U of Bristol Law School. Hon Prof, U of Edinburgh. This is nobody's fault but my own, obviously. Current projects inc: mayhem; 'legal medievalism'; petty treason; medieval women; Welsh defamation. Keen language learner and chorister,
@jctate1215.bsky.social
Professor, SMU Dedman School of Law, Dallas. Interested in legal history and how it shapes the modern world. Usual caveats apply.
@lflannigan17.bsky.social
Historian of law, society, and politics in medieval and Tudor England at St John's College, Oxford | Alumna of the universities of York and Cambridge | Research and publications -> https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/laura-flannigan/
@saragwynbeam.bsky.social
Early modern historian. Criminal justice history, satire on stage, torture, gender and sexuality. The Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva (2021); Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France (2007).
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social
historian of fifteenth-century England | writing a book about a fishing village | https://tomjohnson.carrd.co/
@chloejskennedy.bsky.social
Professor of Law and History; more here: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/dr-chloe-kennedy
@katefarrantshaw.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, PhD - researching EU Rule of Law, CJEU, EU/public law, legal/medieval/celtic history. Latest book https://brill.com/display/title/61820
@oldscotbooks.bsky.social
Legal history, historical data geekery, genealogy. Owner of oldscottish.com. Historical Records Specialist at FindMyPast.co.uk. All views my own, obviously. Lives in St Andrews, Fife
@mcsweeney1693.bsky.social
Professor of Law @wmlawschool. Legal historian, medievalist, W&M alum. Writing about English law in the 13th century. Author of Priests of the Law (Oxford 2019), on the Bracton treatise and its authors. All views my own, not W&M's.
@thegozfather.bsky.social
Principal Legal Records Specialist at The National Archives. Dr of Late Medieval/Early Modern Legal History. FRHistS. Big fan of archives and original records. Views my own.
@stephemmabrown.bsky.social
Historical Criminologist | Legal and social perceptions of violence, 1300-present | Lecturer at Hull | Member of CAMPOP and Cambridge's Violence Research Centre.
@medievaljews.bsky.social
Does what it says on the tin: medieval and Jews (often at the same time). Medieval Anglo-Jewry generally. Dyslexic. Visiting Fellow at University of Lincoln; Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
@booksoflaw.bsky.social
Early #medieval -ist, focusing on the #history of #law and #lawbooks from the 6th-13th centuries. Postdoc historian on the #PresentDead project, and a #ludonarratologist studying medieval-set TTRPGs & creating one based on the #Lombard laws: #LangobardRPG
@billadot.bsky.social
Historian of 🇫🇷: C10th-12th Anjou; violence, customs, law, monks/nuns, lordship, unfreedom. #charteriffic #Smithie She/her.
@kjkesselring.bsky.social
Professor of early modern British history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Hon Prof, IMEMS, Durham U; Associate Fellow, University of King's College.
@medimurdermaps.bsky.social
Medieval Murder Maps give insights into violence and justice in late medieval London, York, and Oxford. medievalmurdermap.co.uk
@sophiemhistory.bsky.social
Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales. Open Uni PhD candidate writing about inquests in the 19thC
@dramandamcvitty.bsky.social
Researcher, writer, historian FRHistS | Gender, law and politics in medieval Europe and modern Aotearoa | Fuelled by strong tea and feminist rage. I report to 2 ginger cats.
@mattsteilen.bsky.social
Law professor. Legal history, constitutional law. PhD in philosophy. Forthcoming book on the origins of the English parliament, Routledge.
@sarabutler.bsky.social
Medievalist, fond of juries, writes about violence, dog-lover, crochet enthusiast, reads Canadian fiction. Professor of medieval history at Ohio State University.
@estherlcuenca.bsky.social
Writer. Historian. (Untenured) Chair of your department. Author of 'The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England' (Oxford University Press, 2025).
@djrgrey.bsky.social
Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
@antiquethought.bsky.social
Ancient Historian/Classicist. IT/Cognition/Law. | Fellow @GuggFellows.bsky.social and American Academy in Rome | Never, ever speak for my employer | Also cooking @foodoriented.bsky.social
@mappermundi.bsky.social
Editor, Medievalist, Legal Historian, Train Enthusiast, Photographer | 🏳️🌈 | they/them | https://mappermundi.org/ | https://www.instagram.com/kerrigorsnaps/ | https://kerrigorsnaps.darkroom.com/
@husajaakko.bsky.social
Professor. Comparative law/legal languages/legal history/constitutional studies/law & globalisation. Academic "humour". Posts indicate satire, perplexity or whatever. Opinions are my own, unfortunately. https://ssrn.com/author=933550
@medievalmcsheff.bsky.social
Professor of Medieval History, Concordia U, Montreal; president of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 2024-26. Spend most waking hours thinking about London riots early 16thc., Dutch immigrants, sex, gender, and the like. Knitster. She/her.
@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social
Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
@sarannmcd.bsky.social
Medieval gender, crime, & history prof. at John Jay College & CUNY Graduate Center, writing about a survivor in c.1470 France for PrincetonUPress, 2023-4 Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, bylines Slate etc.
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social
media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory #HistoryBeyondTheBinary
@kfduggan.bsky.social
Dog lover | Pasta addict | Professor | Historian of crime, living standards, law and social control in Western Europe, 7th–13th centuries