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Historical crime online.
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org
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Sharon Howard
2 days ago
I've used my London Lives datasets of 18th-century St Clement Danes pauper removal orders and settlement exams to make a new interactive map
mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/cdr…
#18thc
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Migration and Exclusion in an 18th-century London Parish – In Her Mind’s Eye
An interactive map of St Clement Danes pauper removal orders, 1752-1793
https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/cdrv-pauper-removals-map.html
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Sharon Howard
about 2 months ago
My new fun interactive toy is a data explorer [big table! many filters!] for the
#18thC
London Lives Home Office Criminal Registers:
mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/h...
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HO Criminal Registers Data Explorer – In Her Mind’s Eye
https://mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/hcr-data-explorer.html
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I think it's back up! Phew.
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Jill Evans
2 months ago
Need an antidote to all that sugar, spice and goodwill? How about a book concerning 203 people executed in public over 69 years? 'At the Tree: Executions in Gloucestershire, 1722-1790', available from Amazon, paperback £10.99, eBook £3.99, or message me if you'd like to buy pb direct from me.
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It's been brought to my attention that OBO searches are not working (and have been for a few days). I've contacted the developer but he's on leave till the 5th so I don't know when the problem will get fixed. Static content is working. Sorry about this!
2 months ago
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It's here!
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4 months ago
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If you're seeing these right now... sorry. Developer is looking into it.
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Jill Evans
8 months ago
Remarkable photo taken inside the Old Bailey in 1907 - Mr Justice Ridley wearing the black cap as he sentences to death J.E. Wyatt for murder of Florence Wakeling. (Penny Illustrated Newspaper, 9 March 1907, via British Newspaper Archive)
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Sharon Howard
10 months ago
I've also been busy exploring the
@oldbaileyonline.bsky.social
API, which changed a LOT when the site was relaunched 18 months ago and I've been meaning to write up some guidance for that. So here is a new little website.
sharonhoward.github.io/obo/
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Old Bailey Online for Data Analysis – OldBaileyOnline ~ Data
https://sharonhoward.github.io/obo/
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Sharon Howard
10 months ago
Good news for
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fans who are Zotero users... the OBO Zotero translator is working again. Except the multi functionality for search results (a bit much for my JS skills; maybe later), but I added bookmarking a session, and tidied it all up a bit.
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British History Online
10 months ago
Didn't realize that the John Johnson Crime ephemera collection is free to access in the UK:
johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk/geoLocSubscr...
hat tip to
@oldbaileyonline.bsky.social
where I discovered this.
#History
#DigitalHistory
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Log In - ProQuest
Explore millions of resources from scholarly journals, books, newspapers, videos and more, on the ProQuest Platform.
http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk/geoLocSubscription.do
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History Workshop
11 months ago
OTD in 1848, some 150,000 Chartists met on Kennington Common to present their third petition to Parliament. Mark Crail on how tracing Chartists, a working-class movement for political and economic reform, became a point of connection between family and academic historians:
http://www.historywo...
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Family History in the Digital Age
In the second article of our feature on the radical potential of family history, family historian Mark Crail reflects on the power of collaboration in the history of working-class movements.
http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/family-history-in-the-digital-age/
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Janice Liedl
about 1 year ago
Last is the online adaptation of my beloved "Crime and Punishment in England, 1500-1900," which draws on the glories of the Old Bailey Online for the second half of study and projects.
www.oldbaileyonline.org
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The Proceedings of the Old Bailey
A searchable online edition of the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913.
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
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Tim Hitchcock
about 1 year ago
Please excuse the self-promotion, but
www.Oldbaileyonline.org
was recently awarded the Mary L.Dudziak Digital History Prize by ASLH, and Bob Shoemaker and I just received the certificate. We were really honoured, but having no wall space to speak of, I thought it could usefully go here.
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Anna Cusack
over 1 year ago
On Saturday 7 December, I will be running a short afternoon session on the history of the Old Bailey for the WEA Petts Wood and Orpington Branch. If anyone down that way wishes to come along, you are very welcome. Details are below
www.wea.org.uk/courses/huma...
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History: History of the Old Bailey | WEA
History: History of the Old Bailey
https://www.wea.org.uk/courses/humanities-science/history/7-december-history-history-old-bailey
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Caroline Derry
over 1 year ago
Delighted that the workshop Law and History: Sources and Approaches is now available as an online resource. If you are a lawyer interested in history or a historian interested in law, this is for you. Enjoy watching!
#LegalHistory
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Legal history: sources and approaches - YouTube
A workshop for lawyers interested in history and historians interested in law. It includes sessions on Sources: (1) local archives; (2) national archives and...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLeOSYXGYWMvn_KH5TyghpdpnowpADmde
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over 1 year ago
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Tim Hitchcock
over 1 year ago
Really pleased to announce the launch of a thoroughly updated version of Locating London's Past:
locatinglondon.org
- new functionality, better mapping, cleaner data.
@ihr.bsky.social
@long18thsem.bsky.social
@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social
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Nobody likes it when the server flakes out, but at least we give you cute bugs to look at till it comes back.
over 1 year ago
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And modest. 😉
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over 1 year ago
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Chelsea D Chamberlain
over 1 year ago
Putting together a list of digital archives for my research methods students to consult as they consider what topics to write their research papers on, but it's heavily US focused. Can fellow historians help me add some variety? 🗃️
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will pooley
about 2 years ago
you know that I LOVE
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so much that my students make fun of me about it
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Dr Dave Hitchcock
over 1 year ago
I have 'reviewed' the recently updated Old Bailey Online after 20 years in the public domain for the London Journal. Link works 50 times for those who would like to read what I had to say. Everybody knows about this iconic resource, but as it moves into its third decade new challenges will emerge.
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The Old Bailey Online at 20
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Ahead of Print, 2024)
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SQZXQYVWGJNVM7D2Z2F7/full?target=10.1080/03058034.2024.2375627
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Tim Hitchcock
about 2 years ago
We also think the Old Bailey statistical search pages are much improved, with more visualisation options, and links below to all the trials that contribute to a particular graph or table. This is a multi-line chart of all subcategories of theft, by year.
www.oldbaileyonline.org/search/stati...
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As part of the latest update, the OBO bibliography, which is maintained as a Zotero library, has been substantially updated. Browse on the site from here
www.oldbaileyonline.org/about/biblio...
or more searchably on Zotero
www.zotero.org/groups/34674...
(the latter might have a few newer items too)
about 2 years ago
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Miaow. 😹
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Brodie Waddell
about 2 years ago
Usually I'm crabby about updates to beloved, oft-used online history resources, but the Old Bailey team seems to have made it genuinely better! The initial scatterplot visualisation when you search for anything is very snazzy and actually really helpful.
www.oldbaileyonline.org/about/whats-...
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What's proximity searching and why is it great that we've got it back? Thanks to the Internet Archive, you can find out here
web.archive.org/web/20061029...
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about 2 years ago
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John Levin
about 2 years ago
A startling scatter graph via the new version of the Old Bailey Online: there were a lot of coining offences in c19th London, and surprisingly few in the c18th:
www.oldbaileyonline.org/search/keywo...
#History
#DigitalHistory
#MonetaryCrime
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Dr Matt Lodder
about 2 years ago
We discovered the earliest ever professional tattooer in England in this database. ♥️
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Sharon Howard
about 2 years ago
For Zoterophiles: the OBO translator is not working and will need significant rewriting. I'm looking at it but it'll take me a little while to get my head round it. (If you have the expertise I lack, do feel free to take it on...)
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Sharon Howard
about 2 years ago
A note for
#DigitalHumanities
people. The API has also been totally overhauled; if you're using it for anything it'll be borked. New documentation here:
www.oldbaileyonline.org/about/api
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Oh yeah baby 💃🕺
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about 2 years ago
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Dr Angela Buckley
over 2 years ago
Hello Bluesky! I’m new on here and looking forward to chatting (mostly!) about historical murder cases, Victorian detectives and the history of forensic science. Do let me know if you’re interested in these topics and I will follow you 🔎
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History Clippings
over 2 years ago
How do we know what eggs cost in the 18th century? People stole them, and Courts would list the prices of stolen goods. Here are some examples from
@oldbaileyonline.bsky.social
From these, we can see that 60 eggs are about 4 shillings.
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Prof. Elaine Chalus
over 2 years ago
Unopened 18th-century love letters to French sailors read for first time Letters from loved ones of captured ship’s crew during seven years’ war lay forgotten for centuries 🗃
#skystorians
#c18th
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Unopened 18th-century love letters to French sailors read for first time
Letters from loved ones of captured ship’s crew during seven years’ war lay forgotten for centuries
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/06/unopened-18th-century-love-letters-to-french-sailors-read-for-first-time
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Brodie Waddell
over 2 years ago
Up to £1000 for research and events via the Social History Society Joint BME Small Grants Scheme. Deadline Dec 1st
socialhistory.org.uk/funding/bme-...
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Joint BME Small Grants
The Social History Society administers a Small Grants Fund to support research, events and activities undertaken by BME historians or focused on the histories of BME people The scheme was launched …
https://socialhistory.org.uk/funding/bme-small-grants/
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History Clippings
over 2 years ago
In 1730 a guy was on trial for beating a man to death with a unicorn horn. Yup... a unicorn horn. It was probably a narwhal or walrus tusk. It's by far the weirdest trial I've ever seen in @oldbaileyonline.
bsky.social
#c18th Old Bailey Online
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Krista Kesselring
over 2 years ago
'Under the colour of conjuring' - a new post on frauds, fakes, and magic in the Court of Star Chamber.
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2023/10/31/c...
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Conjuring and Counterfeits in the Court of Star Chamber (1605)
What happened when an alleged sorcercer appeared in Star Chamber?
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2023/10/31/conjuring-and-counterfeits-in-the-court-of-star-chamber-1605/
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Yes we're a nosy bunch, but always interested in what you've been getting up to on the website.
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over 2 years ago
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*burnishes halo*
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over 2 years ago
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Daniel Grey
over 2 years ago
Privileged to have had Professor
@elainefarrell.bsky.social
and Dr Leanne McCormick deliver an outstanding Royal Historical Society lecture for us about their internationally renowned Bad Bridget project tonight at University of Hertfordshire. Keep an eye out for the article version, people!
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Mark Burgess
over 2 years ago
Inspired by
@bethanyqualls.bsky.social
's 18th Centuryist feed, I made a 19th Centuryists one. For all things 19th-century. Use
#c19th
, #19thC, or
#c19
for posts on topics from around the globe: literary, history, political philosophy, fashion, material culture!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Emily Cockayne
over 2 years ago
Read all about the Annie Tugwell anonymous letters here:
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
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The 37th Wombat 📚🐝
over 2 years ago
Hefty girls wanted for police force. THEY MUST BE HEFTY.
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Meredith Martin
over 2 years ago
Hey BlueSky did you know if you work on 19thC materials & have a dataset we would be happy to review & maybe publish it so other scholars can see your data & maybe work with it, too?
c19datacollective.com
please share!
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Ruth Ahnert
over 2 years ago
Our project Living with Machines funded a series of digital residencies to support work using one of ur datasets or tools/workflows. This is a blog about the first of those by Yann Ryan on his fantastic online guide to accessing and analysing newspaper data
livingwithmachines.ac.uk/lwm-digital-...
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Daniel Grey
over 2 years ago
Do come along! All welcome to attend our forthcoming Royal Historical Society Sponsored Lecture by noted historical superstars
@elainefarrell.bsky.social
& Dr Leanne McCormick on Monday 16 October 2023, 17.30-1900. Tickets are free and available via this link:
www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/new...
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‘Naming and Shaming? Telling Bad Bridget Stories’, with Professor Elaine Farrell and Dr Leanne M...
https://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/news-and-events/events/2023/naming-and-shaming-telling-bad-bridget-stories,-with-professor-elaine-farrell-and-dr-leanne-mccormick
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So what have you been researching on the website lately?
over 2 years ago
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Joanna Bagniewska
over 2 years ago
Warning: a very, VERY addictive website detailing medieval homicides in London, Oxford and York - maps, stories, stats and all. Such a beautifully executed (pun intended) project.
medievalmurdermap.co.uk
💀🗡️🎓
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