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Dr Stephanie Brown

@drstephaniebrown.bsky.social
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BBC / AHRC New Generation Thinker | Historical Criminologist | History of Crime, Punishment, & Policing | Medieval to Modern | Expertise in legal & social reactions to homicide, suicide & abortion | substack.com/@drstephaniebrown

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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This looks great ⬇️
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Happy Bayeux Tapestry day!! 🧵 Although it is usually presented as a story of kings and conquest, the embroidery itself was almost certainly the product of skilled female labour
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@drstephaniebrown.bsky.social's paper on the spatial politics of abortion was also brilliant, with the "retrospective policing" of domestic space reminiscent of Amy Bell's work on crime scene photos. Really useful for my own research on post-mortems in domestic space too. #c19
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Oooh my article on @medimurdermaps.bsky.social for @theconversation.com has been translated into French: theconversation.com/des-cartes-d... Here is the original in English, in case you missed it: theconversation.com/our-medieval...
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Des cartes de scènes d’homicide dans trois villes anglaises bousculent nos idées reçues sur la violence au Moyen Âge
Où risquait-on le plus de mourir dans une ville médiévale ? En reconstituant 355 scènes d’homicides survenus entre 1296 et 1398, des historiens montrent que la violence suivait les flux de population,...
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Congrats @ciarab.bsky.social 🎉 Looking forward to reading this
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Calling my early modernists ⬇️
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 28/07/2026
No 10 North is historic – but not unprecedented. Medieval York shows England has governed from more than one centre before.
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Andy Burnham’s No 10 North has a precedent – in medieval York
No 10 North is historic – but not unprecedented. Medieval York shows England has governed from more than one centre before.
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A fab couple of days @sshmedicine.bsky.social. First a brillaint roundtable with @rebeccawynter.bsky.social @janetweston.bsky.social @carolinederry.bsky.social @ciarab.bsky.social @ruthhalkon.bsky.social @georgesevers.bsky.social and Louise Jackson on Putting Police back into Histories of Health.
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Hit me with excellent PhD theses. I am looking to compile a list for new PhD students to help them get an idea of what a PhD is/can be. Anything crime history - extra points if relating to violence and/or gender. Could be yours, your student, something you examined, or one you stumbled on
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Please More Shows, Cat
ALT: Please More Shows, Cat
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I have finally started a Substack CRIME THROUGH TIME on Substack drstephaniebrown.substack.com#?r=5pos1p&ut...
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CRIME THROUGH TIME | Substack
A time travelling criminologist. Join Dr Stephanie Brown - historian, criminologist, author, and lecturer - as we explore crime and justice from the middle ages to the modern day. Click to read CRIME ...
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I'm in @thebookseller.com 👀 💕
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Now it is 'website official' I am happy to announce that I'm represented by the brilliant Matt Turner at RCW Literary Agency. It has been amazing working through ideas for my first trade book 📖 rcwlitagency.com/clients/step...
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Stephanie Brown
Dr Stephanie Brown is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Hull. As a historical criminologist, her research focuses on crime, punishment, and poli...
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Tonight I am speaking about the @medimurdermaps.bsky.social as part of Colliderfest @uniofhull.bsky.social It is free, but seats can be booked here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/hul...
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
#Medievalsky Anyone know what this knife is?
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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Another patient, antiphonal & contemporary BBCFreeThinking — on crime & punishment. Even the edgy silences speak @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social talks to @stephemmabrown.bsky.social , @scouttzofiya.bsky.social, @joannahs.bsky.social, Stephen Shapiro, Jonathan Sumption www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Crime and punishment medieval to modern
Matthew Sweet's guests include Lord Sumption and criminal barrister Joanna Hardy-Susskind.
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Thanks @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social for brilliantly hosting Free Thinking - Crime and Punishment, Medieval to Modern with @stephenshapiro.bsky.social, @joannahs.bsky.social, @scouttzofiya.bsky.social, Jonathan Sumption and me. If you missed it, catch up on BBC Sounds ⬇️
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 06/01/2026
Many thanks to @historywill.bsky.social, @richmondbridge.bsky.social, @tombhamilton.bsky.social, Paul Werner, @hannahelias.bsky.social, Tabitha Bates, Max Lord, Usha Masani, @johnmunro.bsky.social, Joanna Obomanu, and @stephemmabrown.bsky.social for sharing their thoughts in this piece
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This Saturday I am taking part in the Green Ink Sponsored Write 2025 for Macmillan Cancer Support. Any donations/sharing of this post greatly appreciated 💚 www.justgiving.com/page/somewhe...
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Green Ink Sponsored Write 2025 for Macmillan Cancer Support
Help Green Ink Sponsored Write at the Writers' Gym raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
A fantastic conference. Wonderful to catch up with fab scholars and to meet many people working on such interesting things. Very much looking forward to next steps.
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Yesterday I was on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour talking about the history of suicide. You can catch up here (from c.32mins):
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Woman's Hour - Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Pregnancy drug DES, Novelist Heather Morris - BBC Sounds
The Murder on the Dancefloor hitmaker has a new album, Perimenopop
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Last chance to book tickets for my virtual talk on medieval murder for Curious Histories: Charity History Talks www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mapping-mu...
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Mapping Murder in Medieval York, London, and Oxford
Dr Stephanie Brown, lead researcher on the York medieval murder map, reveals the homicidal topography of fourteenth-century English cities.
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
My article for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/our-medieval...
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Our medieval murder maps reveal the surprising geography of violence in 14th-century English cities
In the 14th century, Sundays were particularly deadly.
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
A great couple of days at the 'Behind Bars' Penal Heritage Symposium at Shrewsbury prison
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Just received my copy of The Historian @histassoc.bsky.social. Thanks to @tombhamilton.bsky.social and Ros Crone for a fab issue on crime and punishment 💕
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
My article for @theconversation.com 'The dangers of romanticising Britain’s 1976 heatwave' theconversation.com/the-dangers-...
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The dangers of romanticising Britain’s 1976 heatwave
By sentimentalising the summer of 1976, we strip away its lessons.
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Early Career Researcher Podcast @ecrpodcasters.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Listen now: Episode 28: ‘Teaching Opportunities in Higher Education’ feat. @rozierhistorian.bsky.social + @stephemmabrown.bsky.social on: - Why teach? - Types of teaching opportunities - How to get started (and how to enjoy it!) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... open.spotify.com/episode/70ss...
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Episode 28: Teaching Opportunities in Higher Education
Podcast Episode · The Early Career Researcher Podcast · 30/06/2025 · 1h 6m
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Huge congratulations @lflannigan17.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 Well deserved 👏
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Come (virtually) to hear me talk about @medimurdermaps.bsky.social for Curious Histories: Charity History Talks on 10 September. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mapping-mu...
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Mapping Murder in Medieval York, London, and Oxford
Dr Stephanie Brown, lead researcher on the York medieval murder map, reveals the homicidal topography of fourteenth-century English cities.
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
My paper at the ‘Narratives of Captivity’ conference @northumbriauni.bsky.social looked at narratives of the condemned in the liminal space between death sentence & execution. To develop this work, I'd really like to work with experts in heritage or corpus linguistics.
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Still getting used to being a BBC and @news.ukri.org New Generation Thinker 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/univer... #AHRC #AcademicSky
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Congratulations to Dr Stephanie Brown on being named one of six BBC New Generation Thinkers! | University of Hull
Congratulations to Dr Stephanie Brown on being named one of six BBC New Generation Thinkers! 🤩 Chosen from hundreds of applicants across the UK, she'll be helping to shape future programming on B...
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Had a great time on BBC Woman's Hour today. Lovely to meet Nuala and the team
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Could not have wished for a nicer cohort of New Generation Thinkers. Very excited to see everything that @bethmalory.bsky.social, @lrjdmnr.bsky.social, @reetiks.bsky.social, Sarah Smyth, & Ashleigh Percival-Borley get up to this year 👏🎉
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I can finally talk about this! I am a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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New Generation Thinkers 2025 selected to shape programming on BBC Radio 4
Six early-career university researchers will work with programme makers to bring new ideas and the latest academic scholarship to audiences
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Check out this blog I wrote for @socialhistsoc.bsky.social on using @medimurdermaps.bsky.social in your teaching
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The first article relating to @medimurdermaps.bsky.social has been published today. Check out "Spatial dynamics of homicide in medieval English cities: the Medieval Murder Map project" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Spatial dynamics of homicide in medieval English cities: the Medieval Murder Map project - Criminal Law Forum
This study examines the spatial patterns of homicide in three 14th-century English cities—London, York, and Oxford—through the Medieval Murder Map project, which visualizes 355 homicide cases derived ...
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The best part about being Schools and College Liaison @crimsochull.bsky.social is speaking with students about university, what a Criminology degree involves, and where it can lead them.
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Great to see a publication date for the Routledge Handbook of Jack the Ripper Studies. The chapter by @ourcriminalpast.bsky.social and I examines the extent to which discussions of this case matched developing schools of criminological thought at the time www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
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The Routledge Handbook of Jack the Ripper Studies
In offering a holistic analysis of the vast array of evidence and literature pertaining to the Whitechapel Murders committed in London’s East-End in the Autumn of 1888, this volume offers a multi-disc...
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Lord Timpson OBE, Minister of State for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending speaks on Probation's Crucial Role in an Evolving Criminal Justice System at 27th Annual McWilliams Probation Lecture, 11 July 2025 Register for online or in-person attendance www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/27th-...
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The 27th Annual McWilliams Probation Lecture with Lord Timpson OBE | Institute of Criminology
The 27th Annual McWilliams Probation Lecture will be held on Friday 11th July 2025 at 12 noon to 2pm. The speaker will be Lord Timpson OBE, Minister of State for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffe...
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
When a celeb meets @awakelam.bsky.social on #WhoDoYouThinkYouAre you know their ancestor is going to debtors' prison 😬
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
8 years ago today I submitted my undergraduate dissertation. Most of those 8 years were spent thinking about the fourteenth century, but I keep coming back to nineteenth century Wales.
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Medieval Murder Maps @medimurdermaps.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Impact time: Have you used the Maps in your teaching? Are you planning to use it in your teaching? If so, it would really help us to hear about it. Please drop us a DM or email @stephemmabrown.bsky.social #Impact #Teaching #Medieval #History
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Grateful for the funding to attend the @ihr.bsky.social seminar @wlvuni.bsky.social to hear @harbottlestores.bsky.social's paper on 19th-20thC post mortems in private houses and to meet some fab historians. A long day, but worth it.
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Thank you so much for being a fab chair @djrgrey.bsky.social
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Excited for Dr Alexa Neale's paper '“In view of her sex”: gendered mercy and the limits of civil servants’ sympathies' at 1pm on Wed 12 March. Register now for Teams link: sway.cloud.microsoft/xEJPUi3xF7M7...
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“In view of her sex”: gendered mercy and the limits of civil servants’ sympathies
Via Teams on 12th March (1-2pm).
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
My review of the scholarship on late medieval economic and social history in 2023 is in Volume78, Issue1 of Economic History Review doi.org/10.1111/ehr....
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<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the article title to read more.
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This CfP looks great! ⬇️
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
What incredible research! Will be adding this to my teaching @crimsochull.bsky.social on class, gender, and the criminal justice system.
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Criminology, Sociology & Policing, Hull. @crimsochull.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This week our lecturer @stephemmabrown.bsky.social spoke to BBC Humberside about crime in medieval Yorkshire and Beverley as a place of Sanctuary www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Hidden East Yorkshire - Why was Beverley a haven for criminals? - BBC Sounds
Murderers, thieves & debtors flocked to Beverley in Medieval times, seeking one thing.
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Three years ago today I submitted my PhD. Here it is in #Wordcloud form. #HistCrim #PhDone
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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
This is my fave starter pack 😍 Can we get #HistCrimSky working on here? We never really had a hashtag in the other place
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