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Legal History Miscellany
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Legal History Miscellany is a personal blog at legalhistorymiscellany.com about history. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “A Jewish Woman’s Appeal of Murder in Thirteenth-Century England”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover legal history, such as a thirteenth-century English appeal of murder brought by a Jewish woman. The one comment is about whether the story was a repost, not the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Posts on the History of Law, Crime, and Justice
Most-linked posts?
- A Jewish Woman’s Appeal of Murder in Thirteenth-Century England2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-01
What Hacker News says?
I could have swore I saw this story float around a few days ago. I searched to see if it was in fact a re-post. I did a search of the url https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2018/08/17/a-jewish-woman... into the hackers news search and got this: https://i.imgur.com/XyoqA83.png I clicked on the 1 comment on the article from two days ago and it now says it was posted 2 hours ago and shows the comment from a few minutes…
Comment linking /2018/08/17/a-jewish-womans-appeal-of-murder-in-thirteenth-century-england/
on “A Jewish Woman’s Appeal of Murder in Thirteenth-Century England”Submitted A Jewish Woman’s Appeal of Murder in Thirteenth-Century England as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted Surviving an Execution as a story · 29 points
HN discussion