The Coroner and the Corpse: Murder in Elizabethan England
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Steve Hindle uses a 1572 murder case from the small town of Nantwich, in northwest England, to explore the nature of violence in the past and how historians attempt to measure it by sifting through archival records. Hindle is The Huntington's W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research. He was introduced to the audience by Steven Koblik, president of The Huntington.
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