Weekend Roundup

• The Chicago-area Legal History Workshop will meet Wednesday, May 17, at 4pm, at the American Bar Foundation, 750 N. Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor Woods Conference Room.  Kimberley Reilly, Department of Democracy and Justice Studies, UW Green Bay, will present a paper entitled “Valuing Wives’ Service: Housework and Emotional Labor in the Law, 1850-1900.”  For more information, contact Joanna Grisinger, Northwestern University.

• Oh, would that Stanley Kutler were with us at this hour!

• "Evaluating the Turn to History of International Law," at the European Society of International Law Conference, Naples, September 6, 2017.  ESCLH Blog has the details.

• For some early modern medico-legal history, have a look at Alun Withey's blogpost, "The Case of the Severed Finger: Callow vs. Heane, 1634."

• And on anti-immigrant sentiment in the same period, here is Shannon McSheffrey's blogpost on prosecuting anti-immigrant rioters in Tudor London. (H/t: Legal History Miscellany)

• Need some good historical images of places for an upcoming Powerpoint or your forthcoming book? Picturing Places is a new free online resource from the British Library. 

Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.