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Amanda Bevan replied to the topic Depositions in the discussion
Star Chamber on Humanities Commons 6 years agoHi Emily
can you remember the format of the depositions? Might a-k have been used to record the separate packets as delivered into court? We have many unopened depositions in Chancery and Court of Wards which are still as tied up and sealed by the commissioners, and I can see that labelling them somehow on receipt would have been helpful.
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Amanda Bevan started the topic TNA commits to a Star Chamber Project in the discussion
Star Chamber on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoTNA’s Discovery Board has just agreed the establishment of the Star Chamber Project, in which Amanda Bevan and Dan Gosling will look again at the cataloguing of, and access to, Star Chamber litigation across the life of the court. We welcome enquiries from anyone interested in potential partnerships.
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Amanda Bevan replied to the topic STAC 8 James going live on Discovery this week in the discussion
Star Chamber on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoYes, there it is – all searchable within STAC 8. Of course, you can search across this and across other courts as well. Worth restricting searches in Discovery by National Archives and by date, and then selecting the lettercodes you want in the filter bar. You can pick up a lot of related cases in Chancery (C2 for James I) which are only dated…[Read more]
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Amanda Bevan started the topic STAC 8 James going live on Discovery this week in the discussion
Star Chamber on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoNew descriptions of STAC 8 for cases brought by plaintiffs I-Z will be going online later this week – at first without dates (my uploading error) but very soon all dated.
The new descriptions are an amalgamation (by some very hard-working students) of the typescript catalogues providing parties, places and subjects, with Tom Barnes’s printed c…[Read more]
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