Helen Rutherford Editor & Author

Helen Rutherford is a Solicitor and Senior Lecturer in the Law School at Northumbria University. She is also in the final stages of PhD research at Newcastle University. She has published on legal education, legal history and the English Legal System. Her research interests focus on the life and work of the Victorian Coroner for Newcastle upon Tyne and nineteenth-century crime and punishment with a North East England focus.

Clare Sandford-Couch is a Visiting Lecturer in the Law School at Newcastle University. She practiced as a solicitor and was Senior Lecturer in law at Northumbria University for a number of years. She received her PhD in Art History from the University of Edinburgh in 2014. She has published on legal history, art history and the role of the arts and humanities in legal education. Her research interests largely address interactions of law and visual culture, and late medieval Italian art history. Her current research focus includes crime histories in nineteenth century Newcastle upon Tyne.

Patrick Low is an independent researcher and freelance TV historian (regular contributor to BBC One’s Murder, Mystery and My Family). He received his PhD from the University of Sunderland in 2019; his thesis examined capital punishment in the North East of England between 1800-1878 and its attendant post-mortem punishments from 1752-1878. He created the Wellcome Trust and University of Leicester’s website Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse and presents ongoing research on his blog.