Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion

Katie Barclay is Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions and Associate Professor in History, University of Adelaide. She writes widely on the history of emotions, law, gender and family life.Amy Milka is a researcher in eighteenth-century history, literature and culture at the University of Adelaide.

• 1. Public Justice: Legal History and the Cultural Turn, Part 1: Sensible Medias, 2. Fire, Fake News and the Standing Army: Arson and Moral Panics during the Popish Plot, 1678–81, 3. Moral Panic and the Policing of the Mad in Georgian Britain, 4. The Press, the Public and Elizabeth Canning in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London, 5. Character and Custody: The Legal Battle of Dr. Barnardo and Mrs McHugh, Part 2: Emotional Rhetorics and the Law, 6. The Emotional Rhetoric of the Scottish Criminal Indictment, 1660–1780, 7. Conventional and Unconventional Emotions in the Eighteenth-Century English Court of Chancery: The Story of ‘Unhappy’ Mary Bangs, 8. Bentham’s Hyaena: Humour as Formal Critique in Jeremy Bentham’s Responses to William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, 9. ‘An Attraction of an Intellectual Kind’: Amelia Opie’s Passion for the Law, Part 3: Legal Selves, 10. Legality, Liberty, and Oppression in Post-Revolutionary England, 1689–1760, 11. Garrow for the Prosecution, 12. Patrick Madan: Avatar of the English Penal Crisis, 13. Sparing the Noose: Death Sentences and the Pardoning of Old Bailey Convicts, 1763–1868