WOMEN, CRIME AND THE SECULAR COURT IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CLUJ

Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-century Britain

Making Crime News: Newspapers, Violent Crime and the Selective Reporting of Old Bailey Trials in the late Eighteenth Century

Newspaper reporting and attitudes to crime and justice in late eighteenth and early nineteeth century London

As other sources of printed information about crime, such as the Ordinary’s Accounts of the lives of executed criminals, lost their audience in the final third of the eighteenth century, newspapers came increasingly to dominate printed discussions of crime. However, no substantial study of the overall nature of newspaper reporting on crime and criminal justice issues has yet been undertaken. By...

Allegory and Enlightenment in the Eighteenth Century

In a reading of William Blake's frontispiece to “There is no Natural Religion” that draws largely on the history of the allegorical mode, I offer a narrative that explores the creative ways in which Blake illuminated his ideas about the value of Enlightenment thought.

Reporting Crime in the North of England eighteenth-century Newspaper : a Preliminary Investigation1