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Choosing and using statistical sources in Criminology – What can the Crime Survey for England and Wales tell us?
No full textThere is a wide range of sources that might fruitfully be used in criminological research. This article overviews the type of evidence used in research that has recently appeared in the British Journal of Criminology, gives examples of unobtrusive administrative data that have been used in recent projects, and focuses on a single data set, the Crime Survey for England and Wales, which covers a wide range of criminological topics. Finally, it will be suggested that criminologists may be missing opportunities to draw on valuable data sets that, though imperfect, may be useful to them in their research
Legal records at risk: does the legal profession care about preserving its heritage? What could be done to rescue private sector legal records
No full textIn this article Clare Cowling (Director, Legal Records at Risk Project, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London) explores the hypothesis that modern private sector legal records are at more at risk of loss than their historical equivalents. There are many reasons for this, but one factor, detailed in this article, appears to be the indifference or reluctance of legal practitioners themselves. The LRAR project seeks to allay any concerns practitioners may have about confidentiality and to raise their awareness of the potential commercial and historic value of their legal records. It will do this by a combination of case studies, interviews with stakeholders and investigations into the current information management and archiving practices of institutions specialised to law. In so doing it will provide guidance and advice on the more cost-effective management and preservation of legal records so that the history of change to non-governmental legal services in the UK over the past century will be accurately documented
Foreword
No full textPreprint of the Foreword in W. Wesley Pue, Lawyers' Empire. Legal Professions and Cultural Authority, 1780-1950. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016) by David Sugarman, F.R.Hist.S. (Professor Emeritus of Law, Lancaster University Law School, UK and Senior Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies). David Sugarman describes the honour and pleasure in being invited to contribute a foreword to a notable collection of essays demonstrating the outstanding scholarship of W. Wesley Pue, highlighting his considerable stature as an academic lawyer and his substantial and enduring contributions to the study and development of law-and-society style legal history
‘Introduction: Crime and forced displacement in Latin America’, in D.J. Cantor and N. Rodríguez Serna (eds.), The New Refugees: Crime and Forced Displacement in Latin America (University of London, 2016), pp. 1–6
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Telling Legal Backstories – making historic case papers from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council available to all online
No full textThe Institute of Advanced Legal Studies holds copies of case papers of appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC). Steven Whittle describes the recent open access initiative at the IALS, working with BAILII to provide online access to historic case papers of appeals from over 35 countries from the period 1935 to 1985. These are cases of the highest importance in the legal development of each of the countries and to the development of common law shared by many countries worldwide
Review of The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru. By José R. Jouve Martín.
Get PDF‘In the custom of this country’: The Migration of Decorative Style in Thirteenth-century Reading Abbey Manuscripts
No full textThis paper discusses the emergence of a specific decorative technique, developed by scribes producing legal textbooks in late twelfth-century Bologna. The migration of this marginal, penwork technique is traced from Bologna to Paris and Oxford, and identified in surviving manuscripts known to have been in the possession of Reading Abbey in the thirteenth-century
The East Asian Journal of British History: Special Issue - Anglo-Japanese Conference of Historians 2015 Changing Networks and Power in British History: Politics, Society, Trade, vol. 5
Get PDFThe East Asian Journal of British History is produced by the East Asian Society of British History, and supported by the Institute for Historical Research.
The Institute of Historical Research is pleased and proud to be supporting this recent addition to British history scholarship. Developing out of the IHR’s long-standing collaborative partnership with Japanese universities, and now in its fourth year, the East Asian Journal of British History features some of the best emergent scholarship from Anglophone historians working in China, Japan, and South Korea.
Divided between an articles section and one devoted to reviews, the journal’s remit wide-ranging covering all fields and periods of British history. It complements the triennial Anglo-Japanese Conference organised by the IHR and Japanese historians based at the universities of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, and the conference of the East Asian Society of British history, in which we are joined by our colleagues from South Korea. In future, we hope that more contributions will be featured in the journal from the Chinese mainland and from Taiwan
The University of London’s Earliest Books (1838): 185 Volumes Presented by Nathaniel Vye, Esq.
Get PDFOne of the first acquisitions of the University of London Library (now Senate House Library, University of London) was a gift recorded in 1838 of 185 volumes presented by Nathaniel Vye, Esq. Nothing indicates the further identity of the donor, the motivation for the donation, or the nature of the books, but many of the books given by Vye can be identified from markings within them, and others can be traced with varying levels of certainty from the Library's first catalogue. On the basis of the library catalogue printed in 1876 and an examination of the library shelves, this article reconstitutes and analyses the Vye gift. In age, language, and subject matter it stands out from other early library acquisitions generally and from named donations of recent books given by their authors particularly, for the Vye books were predominantly German eighteenth-century octavos, with divinity (especially sermons) being the main subject. The article further touches on Vye's identity, the provenance of the books, and the University of London's attitude towards them