1. The Old Bailey Online
and its progeny
Professor Bob Shoemaker
University of Sheffield
28 May 2013

3. Old Bailey Online (launched April 2003)

4. Old Bailey Corpus Online (Magnus Huber)

5. London Lives (2010)

10. Connected Histories (with Jane Winters, IHR, 2011)

11. Connected Histories Sources
• Old Bailey Online and London Lives
• British History Online
• Burney Newspaper Collection
• Origins Network (genealogical database)
• Parliamentary Papers
• Clergy of the Church of England
Database
• Charles Booth Online Archive
• John Strype’s Survey of London (1720)
• British Museum Images
• John Johnson Printed Ephemera
• And more… (and more in the pipeline)

14. Manuscripts Online (HRI, 2013)

15. Locating London’s Past (with Matthew Davies, IHR, 2011)

17. Male Murders, 1674-1730 [pins] and the 4s in the £
Tax (1693/94)

18. Data Mining with Criminal Intent (with partners, 2012)

22. The London Eye:
A Panopticon of Punishment in the Digital Age
• Barry Godfrey, Tim Hitchcock, Hamish Maxwell-
Stewart, Deborah Oxley, Bob Shoemaker
• AHRC Digital Transformations Theme (application
pending)
• Sources: Old Bailey Online, London Lives, Founders
and Survivors, prison registers and licences, census
and newspaper records
• Methods: visualisation techniques; federated search;
record linkage; crowd sourcing.

23. London Eye: Research Questions
• What were the long and short term impacts of
incarceration and convict transportation on the
lives of offenders, their families, and their
offspring?
• How can new digital methodologies enhance
understandings of existing electronic datasets
and the construction of knowledge?
• What are the implications of online digital
research on ethics, public history, and `impact’?

24. Contact Details
• Bob Shoemaker (r.shoemaker@shef.ac.uk)
• Tim Hitchcock (t.hitchcock@herts.ac.uk)
• Michael Pidd (HRI) (m.pidd@shef.ac.uk)
Websites
www.oldbaileyonline.org
www.londonlives.org
www.connectedhistories.org
www.locatinglondon.org
criminalintent.org