Tag: Mary Ashford

• The Murder of Mary Ashford: an interview with women’s history writer, Naomi Clifford

  

  INTERVIEW The Murder of Mary Ashford: The Crime that Changed English Legal History explores the true story of servant, Mary Ashford, from Erdington, who was raped and murdered by Abraham Thornton, whom she had met at a local party. The case stands out in the way it galvanised a group of influential middle-class men, under […]

  Georgio Konstandi

  17th Dec 2020

  UK

  feminism, history, law, legal system, Mary Ashford, murder, Naomi CLifford, rape, rape culture, women's history