‘Stop Thief!’: British Crime and Punishment

Carol Baxter
Mar 30, 2020
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About this webinar

This seminar begins by discussing the big picture question of the British criminal justice system, including the contemporary attitudes to criminals and the policy of transporting them abroad. It then covers the types of records that deal with the crimes and punishments of British criminals.

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About the speaker

Carol Baxter is an experienced and informed historian and genealogist, an internationally-acclaimed, award-winning author, and a dynamic, inspirational presenter. Carol has been a genealogist for four...
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  1. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    5 years ago

    Lovely history webinar! Would like to see more of this sort of content!\n\nMost interesting\n\nnice, clear, easy to listen to. thx\n\nreally interesting, now to find a criminal!\n\nShe spoke very clearly. Very interesting. Learn't lots. \n\nShe was very dynamic and engaging.\n\nSo interesting!\n\nSo interesting.\n\nThank you so much --- most enjoyable talk, now look forward to more.\n\nThanks to Carol for an entertaining look at crime and punishment! \n\nThe resources are great. I'm anxious to access the sites.\n\nThis could explain a lot of gaps in certain genealogies and gives me a whole new area to focus on. Thank you. Very well presented.\n\nThoroughly enjoyed Carol's Webinar on Crime. I'm a long time Family Historian, but there was so much additional and interesting things I had never considered before. THANK YOU.\n\nthoroughly enjoyed, thank you\n\nVery enlightening - love the question WHY? which can be used in lots of ways doing genealogy.\n\nvery informative and entertaining, thanks.\n\nVery informative and interesting and presented very well.\n\nvery interesting \n\nVery interesting and an excellent presentation. Thank you Carol Baxter and Legacy Family Tree Webinars!\n\nVery Interesting and leaving plenty of research to be done. Thank You\n\nVery interesting information from Carol - it was good to attend a Webinar in my own time zone too\n\nVery interesting overview of the British criminal justice system with thought provoking social commentary.\n\nVery interesting. \n\nVery lively presenter.\n\nVery well researched and delivered presentation.\n\nVery informative, easy to follow and listen to.\n\nWell presented, entertaining as well as informative.\n\nWell researched as always, and has leads to many useful websites to follow up.\n\nWhilst I unfortunately dont have any convicts, listening to Carol has given greater insights to the differences in the Courts and she makes a semi-dry subject interesting and informative.\n\nWonderful webinar on British crime and punishment.

  2. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    5 years ago

    Always interesting and so well presented.\n\nAwesome presentation\n\nBrilliant - just brilliant!!\n\nCarol Baxter is a fantastic speaker. Very informative. \n\nCarol Baxter is always an interesting speaker, who gives out unusual / unknown facts, so you learn something new every time.\n\nCarol is an excellent presenter \n\nCarol is truly one of the best prepared speakers with a delightful voice that we could listen to all day!\n\nCarol is very engaging and entertaining! I look forward to her next seminar.\n\nEntertaining as well as educational. Thank you!\n\nexcellant\n\nExcellent \n\nExcellent information. Learning about the legal system was very informative and helpful when looking for criminal records in the UK. Presenter was highly knowledgeable. \n\nExcellent presentation! THANK you.\n\nExcellent presentation, and fun. Great syllabus, too.\n\nExcellent program. Well organized.\n\nExcellent speaker and information\n\nExcellent speaker!! Very interesting topic! Thanks!\n\nExcellent! Carol is so knowledgeable and entertaining and I could have listened to her talking about this for hours! I have DNA matches in Australia and never knew it. Now I have more paths to pursue and I'm looking forward to it. I really want to watch this one again and again!\n\nExceptionally great timeline overview of British criminal justice system! ~ Thank you Carol Baxter!\n\nExciting, fun and very informative. I am looking forward to learning much more from Carolyn Baxter and the Legacy Family Tree Webinars.\n\nExtremely interesting\n\nFabulous presenter!\n\nfabuous webinar. Carol has so much knowledge and is able to impart this in an understandable and interesting manner. Thanks\n\nFantastic webinar with lots to think about for future research.\n\nFascinating\n\nFascinating presentation\n\nFascinating! I learned so much. Thank you.\n\nFascinating! Lots of great information. \n\nfull of surprising content\n\ngave 10 out of 10\n\ngood quality audio. Content was interesting, focusing on contextualising the crimes. very good \n\nGreat\n\nGreat information. Thank you\n\nGreat introduction\n\nGreat overview of the laws, crimes and punishment in Europe. \n\nGreat presentation. Very informative. Thank you. \n\nGreat speaker.\n\nI learned a massive amount!!\n\nI really enjoyed and understand the criminal justice system a bit better.\n\nIncredible speaker and really helps contextualize historically\n\nInformative presentation that really held my interest.\n\nInteresting topic. I have no ancestors, that I know of, that were criminals in the UK, but one never knows what might show up in research. Really happy to have free access to a some genealogy webinars while I'm ordered to stay home. Thank you!\n\nIntriguing, fun & informative\n\nI've never caught one of Carol's lectures before but I'm intrigued and am looking at hearing more from her.\n\nLearned something very valuable.\n\nliked the easy to understand breakdown of the different court systems, the historical / social issues that tied the topic together. Thanks!\n\nLove Love Love! Getting antsy waiting for the upcoming webinars by her :-)\n\nLoved Carol Baxter's talk.. very informative, she spoke with such clarity and clearly enjoyed her subject and has a wealth of knowledge.\n\nLoved it! IT makes me want to delve in deeper to convict history.

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