Peter Rushton Author & Editor

Peter Rushton was Professor of Historical Sociology at the University of Sunderland, UK. He published widely on witchcraft, problems of marriage and family life, the poor law and crime in C18th England. He was the joint author of Eighteenth Century Criminal Transportation (Palgrave, 2004). Gwenda Morgan was Reader in American History at the University of Sunderland, UK, and has taught at the Universities of Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. Her work has been on early colonial American law and the criminal law in England.