COLCEC course topics 2017-18
Aspects of Crime and Punishment, Law and Order
Websites
- Digital Panopticon - tracing London convicts in Britain and Australia, 1780-1925
- London Lives 1690-1800 - crime, poverty and social policy in the Metropolis
- London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City - video introduction to book (see below), related to London Lives website above
- Old Bailey Online - proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
- The Police Magistrate - blog reporting proceedings from Victorian London's police courts
- Dark Tourism - guide to 'dark tourism' destinations worldwide
- Fierce City - podcast on London history (see no.8 The London Monster)
- London Institutions of Punishment and Correction
- London Compters, aka Counters
- Memorandoms by James Martin - first-hand account of 1791 escape from Australia by transported convicts (free PDF download)
- Off The Cuff - City of London Police podcast (iTunes)
Books
- Steven Halliday, Newgate: London's Prototype of Hell (Sutton Publishing, 2006)
- Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker, London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City 1690-1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
- Caroline Jowett, The History of Newgate Prison (Pen & Sword History, 2017)
- Keith Sugden (ed), Criminal Islington: The story of crime and punishment in a Victorian suburb (Islington Archaeology & History Society, 1989)
Aspects of the History of Women's Suffrage
Websites
- Votes for Women: A Centenary Celebration - Gresham Lecture by Elizabeth Crawford
- Voice and Vote: Women's Place in Parliament - Parliament website
- UK Vote 100 - blog: Celebrating 100 years of the Vote in 2018 in the UK Parliament
- Votes for Women - British Library
- Rebel Women - National Portrait Gallery
- Suffragette City: The London of Feminism's Foot Soldiers - Londonist.com article
- UK women's vote centenary - collection of BBC News articles
- 100 Women: Suffragists or suffragettes - who won women the vote? - BBC News article
- 100 Banners - Digital Drama film about suffrage banners
- Deeds Not Words - Digital Drama project about Endell Street Military Hospital
- Suffragettes and Tea Rooms: The Gardenia Restaurant - Woman and Her Sphere blog by Elizabeth Crawford, researcher, writer and antiquarian dealer
- The Fawcett Society
- Follow in the footsteps of the Suffragettes on a London history walk - notes for a self-guided walk
- Video: The Dearsley Window
- 'New Dawn': Celebrating women's suffrage - Art in Parliament
- Beyond the Ballot: Women’s Rights and Suffrage from 1866 to Today - online course from FutureLearn
The City in the History of the Reformation
Websites
- Reformation - exhibition at Senate House Library, University of London; website includes PDF downloads of exhibition catalogue and bibliography
- Reformation 500 - St Paul's Cathedral season of events, with useful online articles
- The National Archives - English Reformation c1527-1590: contemporary documents with notes (classroom resources)
- National Portrait Gallery - 1517: Martin Luther and the English Reformation
- Wikipedia: Reformation - comprehensive overview
- BBC History: An Overview of the Reformation
- BBC History: The English Reformation
- British Library - The Reformation in Shakespeare
- St George's German Lutheran Church - events marking 500 Years of German Protestants in Britain
- St Giles Cripplegate heraldry - stained glass and memorials
People
Books
- Richard Hayman, The Tudor Reformation (Shire Publications, 2015)
- Derek Wilson, The English Reformation: Religion, Politics and Fear - How England Was Transformed by the Tudors (Robinson, 2012)
- CJ Sansom, Dissolution (Pan Books, 2004) - novel set in the reign of Henry VIII in which lawyer Matthew Shardlake investigates a murder connected with the dissolution of a monastery; further titles in the series are Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation, Heartstone and Lamentation