#powerofpetitioning the 1967 Criminal law act features basis for Assisting Offenders indemnity. It makes changes to the Tumultuous act. This 1986 Public Order Act repeals the whole Tumultuous act. The Crown Prosecution Service was established 1985. It adopted assisting offenders
#powerofpetitioning according to this, amendment from 1967 the Quarter Sessions didnt appear in the original 1661 act. Have you seen or been to see the original? Obviously you have Quarter sessions archives. They could be used but other courts also? So what about wider records?
Can any #PowerofPetitioning folks discern this quarter sessions order? The resolution paired with the hand is making it illegible to me.
Had a fantastic time at the Executions exhibit at MuseumofLondon today. So in-depth and moving. And loved all the discussion on the #PowerofPetitioning !
*Petitions and Petitioning from the Late Medieval Period to the Present*
Book launch and conversation about the #PowerOfPetitioning , Thursday, May 23rd, 4pm, online!
Register for free here: royalhistsoc.org/calendar/petit…
Do you have any references to someone *writing* a petition, c.1500-1770? I've found 40 so far but I'm looking for any more examples you might have!
Not just signing or presenting, but physically 'writing', 'drafting', 'penning' or 'making'. #PowerOfPetitioning #twitterstorians
Via an artbot somewhere else, Brodie Waddell is going to love this #PowerOfPetitioning tate.org.uk/art/artworks/d…
Was #EarlyModern petitioning an 'autobiographical act' that used self disclosure strategically as part of a requests for relief?
Belated addition to the #PowerOfPetitioning bibliography from Mary Chadwick, Daniel Patterson, and Jessica Malay 🗃️ :
petitioning.history.ac.uk/blog/2019/05/p…
New article on petitions from war widows to the Scottish Privy Council in 1688-91, by Gillian Sarah Macdonald.
Great to have more work on the #PowerOfPetitioning about so-called 'bread-and-butter' issues in early modern Scotland: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
What does it mean when you're more excited about the 'supplication' of Bartholomew Combers, blacksmith, than the grant from 'Elizabeth R' in response? #PowerOfPetitioning
Well this is 😍
A petition to the leaders of the Stationers' Company signed by 180 (!!) 'lawfull Masters and Workmen printers of London' complaining about 'irregular Apprentices' & 'men forreign to the Profession', c.1685.
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HT: Paul Wilson
What can a flurry of petitions and counter-petitions about Thomas Morely's disorderly alehouse tell us about popular politics?
Find out in my *new* #OpenAccess article in Journal of British Studies on the #PowerOfPetitioning in early modern England: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
It's here!!
*The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain*
Published #OpenAccess by UCL Press, chapters from Lloyd Bowen 🇺🇦, Elly Robson, Sharon Howard, Hannah Worthen, Imogen Peck, Karin Bowie, Professor Ann Laura Hughes, & J. Peacey: petitioning.history.ac.uk/blog/2024/05/n…
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Poor women 'knew what to do and where to go when they had a community dispute too large to fix themselves, displaying knowledge of the process and conventions of petitioning a legal court...'
Emily Rhodes's new post on the #powerofpetitioning : manyheadedmonster.com/2024/05/21/con…
What can group petitions to local magistrates tell us about 'neighbourliness' in early modern England?
Amy Burnett's article in Cultural and Social History is the latest addition to the #PowerOfPetitioning annotated bibliography: petitioning.history.ac.uk/blog/2019/05/p…
Second chapter of the planned monograph has now reached the stage of 'good enough, move on'.
Nearly 16,000 words plus footnotes of pure, uncut #PowerOfPetitioning .
Responses to this have been amazing! But I'm still keen to hear if anyone knows any other courts, especially local courts, that used English bills. Here's my current list. #PowerOfPetitioning
I think, maybe, just maybe, I now have a very rough draft of the first chapter of my next monograph.
Only three weeks behind schedule!
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Coming soon(ish): the first major publication from our #PowerOfPetitioning project! #OpenAccess with UCL Press!!
Contributors are me, Jason Peacey, Lloyd Bowen 🇺🇦, Hannah Worthen Karin Bowie, Imogen Peck, Elly Robson, Sharon Howard & Professor Ann Laura Hughes:
uclpress.co.uk/collections/op…
A new piece from Dr Mary Chadwick looks at depositions as collaborative productions in the 17th-century Court of Chancery. Very useful for anyone who works on 'voices' in legal records, including the #PowerOfPetitioning crowd.
(HT Sharon Howard)
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
