Helen Rutherford

Research interests

My research is in the field of Legal History. I research and write on, predominantly, nineteeenth century lives, trials, and punishments- with a focus on the North East of England. My specific research interest is in coroners and inquests; legal personnel and trials,in the nineteenth century. I am interested in legal biography, the use of digital newspapers for research, and microhistorical inquiry.

I am in the final stages of part time PhD research, at Newcastle University, into the life and work of the Victorian Coroner for Newcastle upon Tyne (titled: The Coroner in an Emerging Industrial Society: John Thedore Hoyle and Newcastle upon Tyne 1857-1885). 

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