Category Archives: Old Bailey Online

Old Bailey Voices: gender, speech and outcomes in the Old Bailey, part 1

Posted on 16 December 2018 by Sharon Howard

The Old Bailey Voices data is the result of work I’ve done for the Voices of Authority research theme for the Digital Panopticon project. This will be the first of a few blog posts in which I start to dig … Continue reading →

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Defendants’ voices and silences in the Old Bailey courtroom, 1781-1880

Posted on 15 September 2017 by Sharon Howard

This is a version of the paper I gave at the Digital Panopticon launch conference at Liverpool in September 2017. In the interests of fostering reproducible research in the humanities, I’ve put all the data and R code underlying this … Continue reading →

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Our Criminal Past special issue in Law, Crime and History journal

Posted on 21 March 2015 by Sharon Howard

A very quick post to note that I have an article in this volume, based on my presentation at the first Our Criminal Past event in 2013. But there’s plenty more there for crime historians to be interested in.

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Repost: Tyburn’s Martyrs

Posted on 20 June 2014 by Sharon Howard

[Originally posted here, November 2007] The criminals went to the place of execution in the following order, Morgan, Webb, and Wolf, in the first cart; Moore in a mourning coach; Wareham and Burk in the second cart; Tilley, Green, and … Continue reading →

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Repost: George’s choice: an 18th-century convict and a medical experiment

Posted on 18 June 2014 by Sharon Howard

Originally posted here (February 2008) Last November, I dashed off a quick post about someone I’d encountered in an Ordinary’s Account: It’s Your Neck or Your Arm On the evening before execution, a respite of 14 days was brought for … Continue reading →

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Data And The Digital Panopticon

Posted on 15 April 2014 by Sharon Howard

Originally posted on Criminal Historian:
The view from my seat at the DP data visualisation workshop Yesterday, I went to All Souls College, Oxford, for a data visualisation workshop organised by the Digital Panopticon project. The project – a collaboration…

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New project, new people: the Digital Panopticon

Posted on 3 November 2013 by Sharon Howard

Starting a new project is exciting and intensely busy (which is also my excuse for taking a month to blog about it). And the Digital Panopticon is the biggest one we’ve done yet. ‘The Digital Panopticon: The Global Impact of … Continue reading →

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Collaboration and crowdsourcing for Old Bailey Online and London Lives

Posted on 19 May 2013 by Sharon Howard

My digital crime history talk included some mention of ‘crowd sourcing’ and our stuttering efforts in this direction (on various projects) over the last five years or so. This post is intended as a marker to get down some further … Continue reading →

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