Next up in our JBS "Meet our Associate Editors" series, meet H. Kumarasingham! www.nacbs.org/jbs-associat...
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On 13 September 1902, Harry Jackson became the first person in Britain to be convicted on fingerprint evidence. We’re turning to the archives to learn about another form of evidence with Amy Bell’s 2018 “Crime Scene Photography in England, 1895–1960.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Need more on Liverpool? Check out Jack Webb’s 2023 “Readers, Writers, and Riots: Race, Print Culture, and the Public in Liverpool 8 in the Early 1980s.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
OTD in 1207, King John created the borough of Liverpool. What happened after that? We’ve got a few gems of Liverpudlian history for you! First Ryan Dye’s 2001“Catholic Protectionism or Irish Nationalism? Religion and Politics in Liverpool, 1829–1845.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
23 August 1940 was the first night of the Blitz, when German planes bombed the city of London. Amy Bell’s 2009 “Landscapes of Fear: Wartime London, 1939–1945” tells us more about what life was like in the capital during this time. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Did you know there used to be a medieval tax on foreign immigrants? W. Mark Ormrod’s 2020 “England’s Immigrants, 1330–1550: Aliens in Later Medieval and Early Tudor England.” doi.org/10.1017/jbr....