Part of the History Research Centre Online Seminar Programme 2019–20

Date: Wednesday 27th May 2020

Time: 1pm - 2pm

Location: Online, a link will be sent to those who register attendance

Tickets: For those wishing to join the online seminar programme, contact Prof. Jon Stobart, j.stobart@mmu.ac.uk, for more information

Professor Heather Shore Biography

Prof Heather Shore is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is involved in the AHRC Funded project, Our Criminal Ancestory. Our Criminal Ancestors is a public engagement project that encourages and supports people and communities to explore the criminal past of their own families, communities, towns and regions.

We interpret ‘criminal’ broadly to mean people that have historically encountered the criminal justice system. This might include the accused, victims, witnesses, prisoners, police, prison officers, solicitors and magistrates among others who worked in the criminal justice system.

Our criminal ancestors were often ordinary people, most were minor offenders whose contact with the criminal justice system was a brief moment in their lives – only a small minority were what we might term today ‘serious offenders’. This project hopes to share a greater understanding of the sometimes difficult situations and context for understanding how or why individuals, and sometimes groups of people, encountering the criminal justice system.

Find out more here.

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