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Interloping at a history conference The Digital Panopticon: Penal history in a digital age

Research Brief 24   As the Prosecution Project’s resident statistician, I recently infiltrated my first history conference – the Digital Panopticon held at the University of Tasmania. I must admit that this conference was one of the most fascinating I have attended. Interesting not only for the variety of projects we heard about, but for […]

On this week in... 1931

Boosted boots

On 24 February 1931, Edward Sheridan and William Redford were tried at the Ballarat Supreme Court for stealing. The property in question was a pair of boots belonging to one John Oliver. The eighteen-year-old Redford was found not guilty. The twenty-two-year-old Sheridan was found guilty but recommended to mercy, and was released on a bond of fifty pounds to be of good behaviour for five years and come up for sentence if called upon.

This trial report is from The Argus

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