Slander, Theft and Violence in early seventeenth-century Shetland: a talk by John Shaw

Name: Slander, Theft and Violence in early seventeenth-century Shetland: a talk by John Shaw
Start: 2025-10-23T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-23T20:30:00+01:00
Location: Shetland Museum and Archives

Thu Oct 23 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm UTC+01:00

Shetland Museum and Archives | Lerwick

Publisher/HostShetland Museum and Archives

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Slander, Theft and Violence in early seventeenth-century Shetland: a talk by John Shaw

How people slandered each other reveals a great deal about a society. It speaks to their fears and anxieties and to the preoccupations of the elites that ran the legal system.
In this lecture John Shaw will examine how slander was treated in the Sheriff Court operated by Earl Patrick Stewart and how this related to crimes like theft and assault.
Image credit: Drawing of Scalloway Castle by Peter Anderson
Tickets £5