Tag: Law courts Records and researchThe 1794 trial of Thomas Hardy: ‘New-fangled treasons’Tuesday 21 March 2023Discover an attempt to reimagine treason as a primarily political crime aimed at the...Records and researchThe treason of Sir Thomas MoreTuesday 7 March 2023Sir Thomas More was a leading Tudor statesman. What led to his execution?...Records and research‘Compassing and imagining’: Treasonous wordsThursday 12 January 2023The crime of high treason, as first defined in law in 1352 and still...Records and researchThe civil servant’s tale: Geoffrey Chaucer in the archives (part three)Tuesday 2 January 2018In part one and part two of this blog series I’ve been tracing the history...Archives and archivistsCourtroom drama: video records from the Supreme CourtFriday 27 May 2016Making video records available via our streaming service is a major evolution in how...Records and researchYou have two cowsMonday 11 February 2013You live in a village in 16th century England and you keep two cows....