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The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913

Welcome to oldbaileyonline.org.uk, where you will get the necessary information regarding criminal court projects tried at the Old Bailey. The Old Bailey is the court where London’s serious crimes were tried under the new jurisdiction and title. All those trials are described in extensive accounts and were renamed as the Proceedings of the Central Criminal Court, some technical details of which are also described in the glossary section.

Proceedings of the Old Bailey - details of the criminal court projects

From 1634 to 1874, additional 97,000 trials and 70 million words were added to the text, which you will get in this database. The information extends till 1913, when the publication of the Proceedings ceased. The website also includes all surviving editions of the Proceeding’s sister publication, the Ordinary of Newgate’s Accounts; biographies of some 2,500 convicts executed between 1679 and 1772, etc.

Among these online texts, approximately 122,000 pages of text were digitized later under the supervision of the Higher Education Digitization Service at the University of Hertfordshire. A thorough contemplation of our site will give you the details about the criminal court projects at Old bailey.