Profiling Irish Crime in London, 1801-1820

British History in the Long eighteenth century seminar24 October 2012Adam Crymble (King’s College, London University)Profiling Irish Crime in London, 1801-1820Through a combination of close and distant reading of the online Old Bailey Proceedings in conjunction with...

Digital landscapes and Archaeology

Digital HistoryDigital landscapes and ArchaeologyPeter Rauxloh (Museum of London Archaeology)6 December 2011Internationally known as a leading expert on using databases in archaeology, the Museum of London’s Peter Rauxloh is the perfect person to talk about...

The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Digital History seminar21 February 2012Magnus Huber (Giessen)The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries The Old Bailey Proceedings Online is a heavily used resource by historians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who want to look at...

Text Mining the Old Bailey Proceedings

Digital History 14 June 2011Professor Tim Hitchcock (Hertfordshire)Text Mining the Old Bailey Proceedings The Old Bailey Online is probably one of the most successful web-based projects produced in Britain thus far.  Based on the proceedings from London’s central...

Live streaming Digital History seminars

Yesterday was the first Digital History seminar this term and, as what has become a continuing thread for many of the papers, the focus was again on the Old Bailey Proceedings.  However, this time the topic was rather different – at least from an historian’s...