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Reforming England’s Divorce Law

Ruth Derham | Published in History Today Volume 74 Issue 3 March 2024

Reforms to divorce law inevitably prompt moral panic as they did in Victorian England.

‘A View of Sydney on Norfolk Island, 1792’. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Public Domain.

Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island

J.M. Moore | Published in History Today Volume 75 Issue 1 January 2025

As convicts celebrated Queen Victoria’s birthday on remote Norfolk Island, debates raged over the purpose of punishment and the merits of Alexander Maconochi