Londonlives.org Website Review

A fully searchable edition of 240,000 MAN*SCRIPTS from EIGHT ARCHIVES and FIFTE*N DATASETS, giving access to 3.35 MILLION NAMES. User accounts and workspaces have now been restored. For information on creating a user account, see How to Register workspaces before August 2016 has not been restored. Other changes include the correction of tagging errors and broken links,. THE DIGITAL PANOPTICON: TRACING LONDON CONVICTS IN BRITAIN AND AUSTRALIA, 1780-1925. the lives of 90,000 convicts sentenced at the Old Bailey between 1780 and 1875, linking Old Bailey trials to relevant entries in fifty databases of criminal justice and civil records. The 'Life Archives' allow users to discover both the pre- and post-trial histories of Old Bailey convicts. They allow users to see differences between the punishment sentences handed down by the court and the punishments convicts actually experienced, and make it possible to compare the impact of imprisonment and transportation on convicts' lives. Bailey As*ociated Records; Criminal Registers; and the Minute Books of the Court of Governors of Bridewell. What was it like to live in the first million person city in modern Western Europe? Crime, poverty, and illness; apprenticeship, work, politics and money; how people voted, lived and died; all this and more can be found in these docu*ents. For more information see the the development of modern social policy, see: Tim Hitchco*k and Robert Shoemaker, London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern LONDON LIVES project is directed by Tim Hitchco*k and Robert Shoemaker. The project manager is Sharon Howard. See about this Discover what happened to Old Bailey defendants before and after they were tried. Map digital resources about London 1690-1819 onto a 1746 map ------------------------- A woman elected to a lucrative parish office, and a recipient of generous poor relief at the same time, Parker was an important actor