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will pooley
@willpooley.bsky.social
historian of witchcraft, folklore, tarot, france, 18-20th c
creative histories
assoc. ed. @FrenchHistory
pro-vice dean of cup plenitude
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Steve Poole on serendipity in the archives… and perhaps the oldest surviving forensic evidence (?) anywhere in England (1764) (It’s about a murder case and does include some gruesome detail) bristolrecordsociety.org/stories-from... 🗃️
Material evidence in the archives: the Ruscombe murders of 1764
Steve Poole, University of the West of England (12 April 2024) 14 min read Forensic evidence of a robbery-murder: Bristol Archives, TC/Adm/Box/19/1 How do historians make archival discoveries? I’d lik...
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will pooley
@willpooley.bsky.social
historian of witchcraft, folklore, tarot, france, 18-20th c
creative histories
assoc. ed. @FrenchHistory
pro-vice dean of cup plenitude
1.7k followers1.4k following1.9k posts