Oldbaileyonline.org Website Review

A searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite individuals ever published, comprising 197,745 criminal bugs have been repaired and tagging errors fixed. The following features have been added:' current alternatives for accessing our text data, so as to encourage re use. We have also explained within our Copyright and Citation Guide. THE DIGITAL PANOPTICON: THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF LONDON PUNISHMENTS, 1780-1925. Between 1875 and 1780, linking Old Bailey trials to entries in fifty databases of criminal justice and records. The'Life Archives' allow users to detect the pre- and - post-trial histories of Old Bailey convicts. They allow users to see differences between the punishment sentences pas*ed down by the court and also the punishments convicts actually experienced, and make it possible to compare the punishments of imprisonment and transportation's effect to convicts' lives. A cooperation between the Universities of Sheffield and Hertfordshire and the Open University was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Big Lottery Fund. Project Managers are Tim Hitchco*k and Robert Shoemaker; the project manager is Sharon Howard and the primary officer will be Jamie McLaughlin. This site is published by HRI Online Publications, and also technical Hunt In Old Bailey Proceedings > most of subcategories Old Bailey Proceedings > advertisements Old Bailey Proceedings > leading matter Old Bailey Proceedings > penalty summaries Old Bailey Proceedings > supplementary material Old Bailey Proceedings > trial Discover what happened to Old Bailey defendants before and after they were tried. Man*script sources on crime, poverty and social coverage, 1690-1800 Map electronic sources about London 1690-1819 onto a 1746 map