Murder
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“Wilful murder by persons unknown”: death in an Oxford college (1747)
In the latest post for the Georgian Lords, Dr Robin Eagles examines an unpleasant incident that took place in Oxford…
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The Last Peer Hanged for Murder
In the latest blog for the Georgian Lords, Dr Robin Eagles re-examines the trial and execution of Laurence Shirley, 4th…
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‘There is no more accoumpt to bee made of them than the kylling of ij sheep’: Charles, Lord Stourton (d.1557), and the murder of the Hartgills
Last year Dr Simon Payling from our Commons 1461-1504 project explored the case of the first peer to be executed…
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Real or imagined? Fifteenth-century MPs as perpetrators of violence
In our latest blog we’re exploring some of the dangerous reputations held by Medieval MPs with Dr Simon Payling, senior…
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Medieval MP of the Month: ‘Please Sir, can I have one more?’ The marriages and murders of the Harcourt brothers of Oxfordshire ?
Further tales of murder and scandal from Dr Hannes Kleineke for April’s medieval MP, or rather MPs of the Month.…
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Medieval MP of the Month: Walter Rich – a tryst gone wrong?
Rather appropriately on Valentine’s Day, February’s Medieval MP of the month blog is concerned with affairs of the heart (among…
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Medieval MP of the Month: Sir Christopher Talbot
Here’s the next installment in our series ‘Medieval MP of the Month’. Today we here from Senior Research Fellow, Dr…
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Violent times? MPs as victims of murder in the mid-fifteenth century
Today Dr Simon Payling of the 1422-1504 Section explores the murders of MPs in the mid-fifteenth century… The completion of…
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“More the air of an assassin than of a gentleman”: Duels and attempted murder in eighteenth-century England
The recent BBC adaptation of John Preston’s book – A Very English Scandal – about the trial of the former Liberal…