New law that labels in sheets must say whether it’s a single or a double
Lizzie Seal
@lizzieseal.bsky.social
Professor of Criminology. Primarily interested in historical criminology and crime history. Current book project is The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder: Forensic Science, Magic and the Gothic Imagination. Views my own
Ruth Ellis: what her posthumous pardon tells us about Britain’s view of abuse then, and now Ruth Ellis was hanged as punishment for killing her abusive partner, but now finally she has been pardoned | Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social
Ruth Ellis: what her posthumous pardon tells us about Britain’s view of abuse then, and now
Ruth Ellis was hanged as punishment for killing her abusive partner, but now finally she has been pardoned
centralbylines.co.uk
"🎶 You Are The Winch Beneath My Wings 🎶" Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) perching on a rusty winch assembly at the WW1 seaplane pier, at Swanbister, #Orkney. #BirdOfTheDay #SingersAndWingers #OrkneyBirding #BirdingScotland #UKBirds #UKBirding #Birds #birdsoftheworld #ornithology #Cormorant 🪶
‘Mr Cockle, of Southampton’ (from 1870 news article) - where did these excellent names go?
People say repression is bad but a woman on the train this morning was having a phone conversation about her son’s poos
Ruth Ellis: what her posthumous pardon tells us about Britain’s view of abuse then, and now Ruth Ellis was hanged as punishment for killing her abusive partner, but now finally she has been pardoned | Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com
Ruth Ellis: what her posthumous pardon tells us about Britain’s view of abuse then, and now
Ruth Ellis was hanged as punishment for killing her abusive partner, but now finally she has been pardoned
centralbylines.co.uk
From me today, drawing on my research on public responses to the case of Ruth Ellis, in the light of her conditional pardon
The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · 4w agoAt the time, many people personally identified with Ellis and her experiences of abuse.
My Dad’s review is in: ‘I counted the amount of times you used the word “liminal”
Lizzie Seal@lizzieseal.bsky.social · 3mo agoAdvance paperback copy of my new book!
J D Vance is unusual among Catholics in knowing that the Pope hates him
I sure don’t remember ‘protester’, ‘activist’ and ‘demonstrator’ being used quite so freely when people out in the streets aren’t white
I asked my daughter why she doesn’t like our local Picturehouse cinema and she replied ‘Because they call their sweet and salty popcorn ‘mix’’
On Friday afternoon before the Bank Holiday, colleagues in the Humanities department were called to a meeting on Tuesday. They were informed that the University Portfolio Review had decided that English Language, English Literature, Philosophy, History & Creative Writing UG degrees would close
Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 3mo agoAye. Heard today that my university is closing UG History, Philosophy, English Lit, Linguistics, and Creative Writing in one go.
You think you have a new take and then you read a monograph from 1991
Me to my 11 yr old ‘You learned about the mods and rockets, didn’t you?’ Her ‘Yes, and it sucked’
You can include ‘The’ in the title of your journal all day long, but I’m not using it, word waster
Would be really cool if Phillipson acted on the more pressing problem of universities running out of money
Recovering from my daughter telling me my casual clothes are ‘not of this day and age’. Tbf, the top I’m wearing is older than she is
New book by me, out at the end of next month: The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder www.routledge.com/The-Mummy-in...
The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder: Forensic Science, Magic and the Gothic Imagination
Using the mid-twentieth-century microhistorical example of the so-called ‘Mummy in the Cupboard Murder’, Lizzie Seal examines the significance of the Gothic to understandings of crime. In a case that hinged on forensic evidence, Sarah Jane Harvey, the owner of a boarding house in Rhyl, North Wales, was tried for the murder of Frances Knight whose naturally mummified corpse was discovered in a locked cupboard of the house in 1960. The book applies Gothic criminology to an empirical historical
routledge.com
Special place in hell for people who spray perfume/cologne/hairspray/anything on public transport
If your self esteem ever dips, take comfort that you aren’t Matt Goodwin
I like it when the Google AI search claims to be ‘Thinking’ before delivering something useless