Category: Law and order AudioThe real Little Dorrit: Charles Dickens and the debtors’ prisonFriday 28 November 2008David Thomas examines the reality behind Charles Dickens’ fiction – what were Victorian debtors’...VideoThe real Little Dorrit: Charles Dickens and the debtors’ prison – British Sign Language videoFriday 28 November 2008David Thomas examines the reality behind Charles Dickens’ fiction – what were Victorian debtors’...AudioRadicalism and unrestFriday 21 November 2008From the early trade unions of the 18th century, through to the Luddites and...AudioVictorian women prisonersThursday 9 October 2008This talk looks at a series of records of women prisoners dating from 1853...AudioCriminal ancestors: trial records at The National ArchivesThursday 19 June 2008Nigel Taylor takes us through a short introduction into the records that can be...AudioMedieval criminals and the lawThursday 7 June 2007An introduction to the formidable collection of documents that relate to the law and...AudioStar Chamber stories: using records of the early modern equity courtsTuesday 12 December 2006The National Archives holds a vast collection of Chancery Court and other equity legal... « 1 … 3 4 5