Really excited to finally be able to announce publication of a new book on the lives of female offenders and how to research them! Check out Criminal Women 1850-1920 and the case of Violet Watson: Renegade, Runaway, Reformatory Girl waywardwomen.wordpress.com/2018/07/02/a-n…

*NEW BOOK CLAXON* 'Criminal Women 1850-1920: Researching the Lives of Britain's Female Offenders' is out now! Full of fascinating new case-studies, crime histories, and a researcher's 'how to' guide. Go on! Available here: amzn.to/2z1kpQ1 & here: pen-and-sword.co.uk/Criminal-Women…

Read “Mystery Always Begets Suspicion”: Defending the Open and Public Nature of the Coronial Inquest" by Dr. Catie Gilchrist (Dr Catie Gilchrist): an expert on coronial inquests in colonial NSW. Book with HarperCollins Aus due 2019! femalefactoryonline.org/essays/mystery… #OzHist #twitterstorians

First female victim in Old Bailey Online was an unnamed maid servant, whose French master was prosecuted for raping her on 29-04-1674. Because she told no one until 3 days after it was 'pretended to be done' & took 3 weeks to report it, her master was found not guilty #ESRCvictims

I suppose the very last victim in Old Bailey Online was the British State, as it prosecuted Emmeline Pankhurst for inciting persons unknown to commit felony and misdemeanours on April 1st 1913. Very cool to discover in the centenary year of #womenssuffrage #ESRCVictims

Check out the new & improved site!You can now search the DP using a wide range of personal characteristics and life events, we've added new ways to visualise our data, the ability to make bigger downloads, and a range of new guides and information pages: digitalpanopticon.org/search

Suffragettes are some of Britain's most famous wayward women, but too often simplified by history. Suffragettes were complex and contradictory characters, none more so than Adela Pankhurst #suffrage #suffragette #Pankhurst #votesforwomen #commemoration theconversation.com/adela-pankhurs…

Fab to see Criminal Women 1850-1920 getting a write up in The Sun thesun.co.uk/news/7238285/v…

"A Factory Señorita?" @femalefactoryol blog by @oldparramatta. Directs you to resources on the #OldBailey & #ParramattaFemaleFactory #convict #AdelaideDeLaThoreza inc. Gothic Fantasy 1878 bio & recent research untangling the truth #OzHist #twitterstorians femalefactoryonline.org/2018/09/14/a-f…

Really looking forward to reading this:

Oooh! New book on researching child offenders by the fabulous Dr Emma D. Watkins who somehow managed to get this out within just a couple of months of her viva! Definitely on the must read list: pen-and-sword.co.uk/Criminal-Child…

Are you a Victorian woman? Finding yourself stuck in an endless cycle of crime and incarceration? Sick of the daily grind at Brixton prison? Why not try Penal transportation? It worked for Julia Rigby, and could do the same for you! #actualresultsmayvary waywardwomen.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/the…

FASCINATING! Tales of Transportation from #Britain to #Australia This book covers eightys when 168 000 convicts from Britain and Ireland were sent to Australia. Rosie reviews #nonfiction CONVICTS IN THE COLONIES by Lucy Williams Pen and Sword Pub wp.me/p2Eu3u-co7

Nice piece in The Conversation by Kim Price - on prison diets. A surprise benifit of being banged up! theconversation.com/victorian-conv…

And his stuff is out in The Lancet! Amazing. How’s that for impact!

Research into an ancestor I found in a “home for female inebriates” has lead me to many interesting articles, including this one on WaywardWomen Wayward Women blog - Birmingham’s Brewery Blacklist waywardwomen.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/bir… #AncestryHour

A nice write up on a familiar wayward woman: Lydia Lloyd strikes again

Next THURSDAY 30th, myself and Dr Meg Foster will be presenting on 'Crime in the Australian Colonies' at Liverpool University Maybe of interest? @MrsAlghrani Lucy Williams @DrKimPeters @helenrogers19c Lindsay Wilkinson - please share widely!

NEW POST for #IWD2018 Madge Foster and the Many Magistrates of Western Australia: waywardwomen.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/mad…