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Capital Punishment UK

Listing of all U.K. executions from 1735 - 1964.

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.

Prison History

A resource to expand our knowledge of the practice and experience of imprisonment in the British Isles between 1500 and 1999.

Victorians.co.uk - Victorian Crime and Punishment