The Quarter Sessions were roughly the equivalent of the Crown Court system we know today and the depositions were statements made by witnesses or those involved in the cases heard by the court.   

The statements are full of exciting, terrible, sad and funny stories told by real people, in their own voices .

Join Leeds History student Eve Peet and a groups of volunteers who have been transcribing the depositions for a conversation about how these stories have affected them and what they tell us about life for ordinary people in the 19th century.

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