The 2016 EU Referendum and 2019 General Election placed class back on the agenda as many political scientists turned to historical narratives to account for political change. In doing so, they ofte...

Ruth Ellis was hanged as punishment for killing her abusive partner, but now finally she has been pardoned

Ruth Ellis was hanged as punishment for killing her abusive partner, but now finally she has been pardoned

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Using the mid-twentieth-century microhistorical example of the so-called ‘Mummy in the Cupboard Murder’, Lizzie Seal examines the significance of the Gothic to understandings of crime. In a case that hinged on forensic evidence, Sarah Jane Harvey, the owner of a boarding house in Rhyl, North Wales, was tried for the murder of Frances Knight whose naturally mummified corpse was discovered in a locked cupboard of the house in 1960. The book applies Gothic criminology to an empirical historical

Call for titles and abstracts! The Routledge International Handbook of Historical Criminology edited by me, Esmorie Miller and Lizzie Seal If you’re interested and would like to submit a chapter abst...