Legal Histories in Unexpected Places: 29 Nov. 2024
The Open university is organising what looks to be a most interesting conference under the above title on Friday, 29 November 2024. The programme is as follows:
10:00 Keynote
Erika Rackley & Sharon Thompson, ‘Finding feminist legal history … in space’
10:45 Panel 1A – fiction
• Rebecca Probert, ‘The 1925 property legislation and inheritance plots in the Golden Age of English detective fiction’
• Nishant Gokhale, ‘Travels & Travails in Early 19th Century Company India: William Browne Hockley & His Fiction’
Panel 1B – summer holidays
• Andrea Loux Jarman, ‘What I Learned on my Summer Holiday: dilemmas in researching the role of customs in the exercise of soft power’
• Simon Lavis, ‘Foot-casts in the Sand or I Know What You Dug Up Last Summer’
11:30 Break
11:45 Panel 2A – space, land and water
• Marjan Ajevski, ‘Surprising heritage: what is heritage in outer space?’
• Ellie Chapple, John Picton and John Tribe, ‘The Slavery Antecedents to Modern Charitable Foundations: The Port Sunlight Village’
• Rebecca Bruekers, ‘International disputes and local archives: the case of the Meuse river’
Panel 2B – unexpected archives (1)
• Elizabeth Garner, ‘Putting “The Law” Back into the Irish Poor Law: what Legal History can tell us about the Irish Workhouse System’
• Michael Makey, ‘Minutes and memoranda: Regulation interpretation’
• Stephanie Dropuljic, ‘Discovery in the archival materials: considering the case of Margaret Ramsay (1662)’
12:45 Lunch
13:30 Panel 3A – objects and places
• Francis Boorman, ‘Places of Arbitration, or Legal History Goes to the Pub’
• Brett Crumley, ‘Chantries and Brass: Unexpected Archives of Legal Charity’
• Reem A Moustafa, ‘Sir John Soane’s Sarchophagus’
Panel 3B – press stories, legal stories
• Shu Wan, ‘The Trial of The Muted Lover and Its Aftermath, 1927-1943’
• Jacqueline Smart, ‘The Inquest on Emma Goule – the story of “a very respectable man … accidentally armed with 2 loaded pistols”!’
• Neil Graffin, ‘The wreck of San José and its claimants’
14:30 Break
14:45 Panel 4A – surprise and serendipity
• Helen Rutherford, ‘Biographical legal history and eBay serendipity. ‘I have arrived in good condition’: an articled clerk to his mother 1830’
• John M Regan, ‘Discovering Republican Martial-Law during the Irish Civil War 1922-3’
• Carol Howells, ‘Curiosity and Landscape: A tale of coffee, Crown, sheep, cannonballs, and transportation’
Panel 4B – legal professions
• Katherine Milliken, ‘Lawyers in expected and unexpected places: foregrounding the English legal profession in social and political histories of the 1970s’
• Patricia Leighton, ‘’The difference empiricism can make to understanding major issues in Law: The case of examinations for solicitors from 1836’
• Caroline Derry, ‘Pathé News, the barrister housewife, and Malawian independence’
15:45 Break
16:00 Panel 5A – unexpected archives (2)
• David Magalhães, ‘Portuguese Legal History in boxes of sweets and an eighteenth century sexist judicial decision’
• Morag Peers, ‘Scottish Passport Records’
• Gwynedd Parry, ‘Law and Order in the Welsh Language … in Argentina (1865-1885)’
Panel 5B – unexpected law
• Jane Frecknall-Hughes, ‘The legacy of taxation law(s)’
• Jackie Gulland, ‘“I am satisfied that she is naturally an industrious and hardworking woman” Moral reasoning in social security legal cases 1911-1948’
• Simon Best, ‘Revealing Legal Histories of Overriding Interests’
17:00 End
Register here.