HIST 3130 Study Guide - Final Guide: History Workshop Journal, Old Bailey
1 Jun 2016
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Unit 5 crime in the home: infanticide & domestic abuse. 1624: act to prevent the destroying & murdering of bastard children. 1740s: rise in the number of acquittals in infanticide cases. 1849: rebecca smith is the last woman in britain to hang for infanticide. 1884: national society for the prevention of cruelty to children is founded. 1889: act for the prevention of cruelty to children (children"s charter) Two new strands of historical study from the 1970s onward (1) social history as a field of historiographical inquiry emerged and was joined by (2) cultural history. First wave of historical research into the family life was family reconstitution: a method of data analysis used by historians to determine the shape and structure of families in the past. Developed by the cambridge group for the history of population (campop), this process involves the analysis of parish registers, which list births, deaths, and marriages.
