The first questions any historian asks of a document are: who produced it? why? what was its purpose? has it been altered? is it an…
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Readers of this blog will be interested in receiving advance notice of the publication of Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts by Peter Candy. This will be…
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Comments closedThis blog has long been interested in the law and court cases concerning enslaved men, women, and children. The well-known cases tend to be those…
Comments closedIn a debate about restricting the access to the House of Commons of M.P.s arrested or charged with certain offences, Sir Michael Ellis, K.C., former…
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