Category: Law and order AudioSuffrage 100: Did militancy help or hinder the fight for the franchise?Friday 27 April 2018By 1912, militancy associated with the Suffragette movement hit its peak, with regular arson...AudioMapping Women’s SuffrageTuesday 24 October 2017The women’s suffrage campaign in Britain was a particularly long and difficult struggle. It...AudioThe life and death of King JohnTuesday 29 November 2016King John’s acts of misgovernment prompted his barons to demand reform, setting the kingdom...VideoPacifists besieged in a London church, First World WarThursday 30 June 2016This footage shows a meeting of pacifists in a London church, which is interrupted...AudioAmiable Warriors: A History of the Campaign for Homosexual EqualityTuesday 14 June 2016The Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) is the oldest surviving LGBT organisation in the...AudioPortillo’s State SecretsFriday 29 May 2015Researcher Tommy Norton introduces some of the 30 documents featured in the BBC 2...AudioVanishing for the Vote: diverse suffragettes boycott the 1911 censusFriday 6 March 2015Vanishing for the Vote tells the story of what happened on census night, 2...Archives and archivistsFrom British bobby to Hong Kong copperFriday 3 October 2014This year marks the 170th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Police....AudioDid she kill him? Addiction, adultery and arsenic in Victorian BritainFriday 22 August 2014Florence Chandler was in her early 20s when she married much older James Maybrick,...AudioBig Ideas: Big Data for LawFriday 15 August 2014Big data is big news. Did you know an estimated 90 per cent of...AudioWriter of the month: A very British murderFriday 8 August 2014A Very British Murder is Lucy Worsley’s account of a national obsession – a...AudioAnnual lecture of the Pipe Roll Society (2014): Formal record and courtroom reality in 13th and 14th century EnglandThursday 24 July 2014Please note: Professor Brand quotes direct dialogue from original plea rolls and some listeners might find... 1 2 3 … 5 »