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Digital Panopticon - Tracing London Convicts in Britain & Australia, 1780-1925

This website allows you to search millions of records from around fifty datasets, relating to the lives of 90,000 convicts from the Old Bailey. Use the site to search individual convict life archives, explore and visualise data, and learn more about crime and criminal justice in the past.

Old Bailey Online - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 - Central Criminal Court

Searchable online database of 200,000 records, years 1674 - 1913. Searchable by name, place, crime, verdict, punishment, date & more.

Victorian Crime and Punishment

This website is all about Crime and Punishment in the UK in the 19th Century. Includes a prisoner database with actual prisoner records and case studies.