Take the long view
An Edge Hill academic will discuss the parallels between the murder of Liverpool youngster Rhys Jones in 2007 and another murder of a child in the same city in similar circumstances on Christmas Eve in 1883, when he appears on Radio 4's The Long View.
Dr John E Archer, Honorary Research Fellow at Edge Hill University will talk about the two cases with presenter Jonathan Freedland, along with other guests.
Dr Archer was a Reader in the History department at Edge Hill until his retirement in 2003. Before this, Dr Archer completed a major project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), looking at violence in the North West of England from 1850 to 1900, with particular reference to Liverpool and Manchester. The project was part of a larger initiative, led by Prof Betsy Stanko of Royal Holloway, University of London, which looked at interpersonal violence in the UK.
Dr Archer has written several publications including By a Flash and a Scare': Arson, Animal Maiming and Poaching in East Anglia 1815-1870, Oxford Univ. Press 1990 and Social Unrest and Popular Protest in England 1780-1840, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
His most recently published article Mysterious and Suspicious Deaths: Missing Homicides in North West England 1850-1900, appeared in the Crime, Histoire & Sociétés journal in 2008.
The programme was originally aired at 9am on Tuesday, 24 February, repeated at 9.30pm the same day, and is also available on the listen again facility from Wednesday, 25 February.
Published: Mon, 23 Feb 2009
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