National Trust has transformed Sandilands in Lincolnshire into a nature reserve with wetlands and wading pools

The 7th annual Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries conference, a free, online event on Friday 27th November 2026, is hosted by the Open University Law School legal histories research cluster.

How did a Victorian classicist's reading of Roman law shape a foundational text of legal history and colonial governance?

Writing the history of law involves choices: whose stories are to be told, and how? Traditionally, legal history has focused on influential ‘insiders’ like judges, lawyers and legislators, and on stud...

With curbs on trial juries now proposed in the UK, this post looks back to the part played by their now defunct counterpart, the grand jury.

Writing the history of law involves choices: whose stories are to be told, and how? Traditionally, legal history has focused on influential ‘insiders’ like judges, lawyers and legislators, and on stud...

Cambridge Core - British Government, Politics and Policy - The Brexit Effect, 2016–2026

Whether the Court of Appeal erred by: (1) Holding the Appellants do not have a statutory right of appeal to the Privy Council. (2) Ruling that Mrs Bethel was unlawfully detained between 1 am and 3 p...

Who owns what lies within the ground beneath our feet? This post explores the answers offered in a 1568 case that has both analogues and legacies today.

Un article de la revue Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française, diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

By Cassie Watson; posted 27 March 2026. What did a cheese thief in Victorian Lancashire have in common with a pitman in County Durham, a bigamist in the Rhondda Valley, or an eighteenth-century Wel…

The Bristol Radical History Festival returns this Spring for its eighth edition, with history talks, panel discussions, films, history walks, performance and exhibitions. There will also be space devo...

The fascinating history of divorce in detective fiction.

A public lecture by Professor Benjamin Pohl (Medieval History, University of Bristol) followed by a free drinks reception.

Discover how expressions of love have been uncovered in unexpected places by The National Archive.

Dr Erin Lloyd Jones explores 1,500 years of history at Bangor Cathedral.

Evan Jones, University of Bristol (8 Dec 2025) 10 min read Millerd Map (1673) James Millerd’s 1673 map of Bristol is the best known and most widely used representation of the pre-modern city.…

A rare opportunity to view a selection of medieval manuscripts from our collections. Highlights from this unique display include a richly decorated Book of Hours, a Missal made for St Augustine’...

Nearly 13m people are hoarding millions of dollars’ worth of the stylish 50 peso note, featuring Mexico’s cutest critter

Abstract. This article explores the status and treatment of women under the law of the exchequer in the early thirteenth century and more specifically duri

Kenneth Morgan (ed.), Documents on the Bristol Slave Trade (Bristol Record Society publications, Vol. 80, 2025)A collection of transcribed documents relating...

Join us for the 6th annual Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries Conference - Moments of Rupture