Legal history and the study of the history of slavery have suffered a significant loss with the death on 16 December of Judith Kelleher Schafer…
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An exhibition on the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 has just opened in the National Library of Scotland. Drawing on popular culture, it has been named…
Comments closedReaders of this Blog are aware of its interest in slavery. The topic is both contemporary and very much in the news, as the tragedy…
Comments closed200 years ago, Walter Scott, Edinburgh alumnus in arts and law, advocate, and Clerk of Session, published Waverley, and created a sensation. The quotation from…
Comments closedCONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT CALL FOR PAPERS The Southern African Society of Legal Historians will be presenting a conference from 05 to 09 October 2015. Theme: “Legislation…
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