Reformative rhetoric and the exercise of corporal power: Alexander Maconochie’s regime at Birmingham prison, 1849–51 by J. M. Moore In March 1849 Alexander Maconochie, the former superintendent of the Norfolk Island penal settlement in colonial Australia and...
The decline of the Liberal party in the heart of England: the Liberals in Leicestershire, 1914–24 by Gavin J. Freeman This article uses the county of Leicestershire to examine the decline of the Liberal party from the outbreak of the First World War to the debacle of...
Treason, felony and Lollardy: a common petition in the hand of Richard Osbarn, clerk of the chamber of the Guildhall, 1400–c.143 by Helen Killick This article examines a common petition presented in the English parliament of 1425 requesting that those imprisoned for...
The ‘stormy latitude of the law’: Chancery Lane and street improvement in late Georgian London. Francis Calvert Boorman Using newspapers, plans, London guides and parish records, this article describes the arguments concerning improvement of the street environment in...
Contents Tenure and property in medieval England Susan Reynolds The Bari charter of privileges of 1132: articulating the culture of a new Norman monarchy Paul Oldfield Donald Balloch, the ‘Treaty of Ardtornish-Westminster’ and the MacDonald raids of 1461–3 James...
Sometimes somnolent, sometimes seething: British imperial Africa and its home fronts by Bill Nasson This article considers the domestic impact of the First World War upon Africa, a continent pulled into the hostilities of 1914–18 because of its place in the world of...
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