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A “respectable” convict? Challenging the idea of the criminal classes in mid­-Victorian England (2016)
Presentation / Conference
(2016, March). A “respectable” convict? Challenging the idea of the criminal classes in mid­-Victorian England. Presented at Social History Society, Lancaster

In 1884 Henry was described by the deputy governor of Portland Prison as “…the point where the gentleman ends and the habitual criminal begins”. The habitual criminal was, in mid-Victorian England, conceived as a member of the criminal classes, who w... Read More about A “respectable” convict? Challenging the idea of the criminal classes in mid­-Victorian England.

Identity concealed or revealed?: the use of photography in the Victorian criminal justice system (2015)
Presentation / Conference
(2015, August). Identity concealed or revealed?: the use of photography in the Victorian criminal justice system. Presented at British Association of Victorian Studies, Leeds

Photography promised 'an enhanced mastery of nature' and was adopted by the police and prison services as a means of identifying suspects who endeavoured to conceal their names and previous convictions. The end of transportation to the colonies was p... Read More about Identity concealed or revealed?: the use of photography in the Victorian criminal justice system.

Policing Drunkenness in Victorian Cumbria (2014)
Presentation / Conference
(2014, September). Policing Drunkenness in Victorian Cumbria. Presented at British Crime Historians Symposium 4, Liverpool

Drunkenness assumed increasing importance as a ‘problem’ in the discourses of the nineteenth century. This is a bottom-up study to examine the extent to which the policing of drunkenness was informed by local cultures, rather than directed by policie... Read More about Policing Drunkenness in Victorian Cumbria.