Yes Jane this has been fascinating! Depressingly looks like not much has changed from the early 1990s when I had to gently persuade an undergrad student in a county RO that 'crime in the 18th century' was a rather general topic for a long essay using primary sources, and was already well covered by secondary literature.
Sarah
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