This page provides links to freely accessible full-text versions of peer-reviewed published articles and other work. All of these works are available for study and research purposes, with just a few caveats:

1. you may link directly to any of the URLs of the texts, and you may download or print off single copies for your own use, but you may not republish any of the files, or make copies of them publicly available elsewhere, without my express permission;
2. you must acknowledge the source fully and accurately (see note below) if you quote directly from any of the texts in any publication, academic essay, webpage, etc.

Journal articles

Some of these are copies of the work exactly as it appeared in the publication, but others will merely be copies of the final draft version that was accepted for publication (and therefore will lack the formatting, pagination and final proofreading of the published version); I will always state which. In the latter case, if you’re citing the work in another academic publication you should ideally give preference to the publisher’s version where you can get access to it.

Sharon Howard, ‘Investigating responses to theft in early modern Wales: communities, thieves and the courts’, Continuity and Change, 19:3 (2004), 409-30. (Published by Cambridge University Press.)
PDF; copy of the final published article.

Sharon Howard, ‘Imagining the pain and peril of seventeenth-century childbirth: travail and deliverance in the making of an early modern world‘, Social History of Medicine, 16:3 (2003), 367-382. (Published by Oxford University Press.)
PDF; copy of final draft of article.

Sharon Howard, ‘Riotous community: crowds, politics and society in Wales, c.1700–1840‘, Welsh History Review, 20:4 (2001), pp.656-86. (Published by University of Wales Press.)
PDF; copy of final draft of article.

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Other publications

With Tim Hitchcock, Robert Shoemaker, Katherine Rogers and Jane Winters, Chapter 7 (Connected Histories case study), Content Clustering and Sustaining Digital Resources (2011)
PDF; EPUB (at jisc.ac.uk).

With Robert Shoemaker and Tim Hitchcock, Crime in the Community impact analysis report (2010)
PDF (at jisc.ac.uk).

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Conference papers

Sharon Howard, ‘Unmarried mothers in eighteenth-century London’
PDF (at esrc.ac.uk); paper delivered at North American Conference on British Studies, Louisville, November 2009 (currently missing exciting PPT slides – will attempt to track them down)

Sharon Howard, ‘Gentlemen behaving badly: gentlemen and interpersonal violence in seventeenth-century Britain’
PDF; paper delivered at Icons and Iconoclasts: The Long Seventeenth Century, 1603 to 1714, University of Aberdeen, UK, July 2006.

Sharon Howard, ‘Communities policing “criminal” bodies in early modern Wales’
PDF; slightly revised version of a paper delivered at Controlling Bodies: The Regulation of Conduct 1650-2000, University of Glamorgan, June 2002.

Dissertations

Sharon Howard, Crime, communities and authority in early modern Wales: Denbighshire c.1660-1730, PhD dissertation, University of Wales, 2003.
PDF; copy of the accepted dissertation.

Sharon Howard, ‘Gender and defamation in York, 1661-1700: reputation, authority and the power of words’, MA dissertation, University of York, 1999.
PDF; copy of the accepted dissertation.