Posts by Briony Paxman Records and research‘Not a fair trial’: Edward Ashford’s petitions for mercyWednesday 20 April 2016Exploring the story of Edward Ashford, who appears to have been in the wrong...Records and research‘To share in his fate’: petitioning to join those transported overseasTuesday 16 February 2016We explore petitions from women who wanted to join their husbands in exile…...Records and research‘A floating Hell’: life on early 19th century convict hulksTuesday 1 September 2015Over the last few months I have introduced some of the convicts we have...Records and researchGeorge Sanglier’s petitions: two sides to every petitionTuesday 4 August 2015My last blog focused on James Hawkins, a thief so determined not to be...Records and researchJames Hawkins’ daring escapes – a convict who refused to accept his sentenceTuesday 7 July 2015Last month I wrote a blog introducing the work being done by a team...Records and researchPentrich: from seditions to petitionsTuesday 9 June 2015Today (and tomorrow morning) mark the 198th anniversary of the Pentrich Rising in 1817....Records and researchVolunteers and villains: the HO 17 cataloguing projectTuesday 2 June 2015It is Volunteers’ Week, an annual celebration of the wonderful contribution made by millions...Records and researchEmily Davison and the 1913 Epsom DerbyTuesday 4 June 2013Today marks 100 years since one of the most famous events in the campaign...