Datasets
Front cover of the Old Bailey Proceedings for the sessions of January 1824. Old Bailey Online, reference number f18240114-1. © Harvard University Library.
These pages provide introductions to the different datasets (document types) in the Digital Panopticon. You should review this background material in order to make sense of the records and find out how to locate the information you are looking for.
For useful contextual information on London, Australia, crime, justice and punishment between the later eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, see the Historical Background pages.
For how to search and analyse these datasets in the Digital Panopticon in order to study a range of different subjects - including women, juvenile offenders and family history - see the Research and Teaching pages.
Trial Records
- Old Bailey Proceedings 1740-1913
- Old Bailey Associated Records 1740-1834
- Newgate Calendars of Prisoners for Trial 1782-1853
- England and Wales Criminal Registers 1791-1892
Post-Trial and Sentencing Records
- Capital Convictions at the Old Bailey 1760-1837
- Home Office Criminal Entry Books 1782-1876
- Judges Reports on Criminals 1784-1827
- Petitions for Pardon 1797-1858
Transportation Records
- Middlesex Convicts Delivered For Transportation 1785-1792
- British Transportation Registers 1787-1867
- Convict Indents (Ship and Arrival Registers) 1788-1868
- Surgeons Notes from Transport Vessels 1817-1857
- New South Wales Convict Indexes 1788-1873
- Convict Savings Bank Books 1824-1868
- VDL Founders and Survivors Convicts 1802-1853
- VDL Founders and Survivors Convict Biographies 1812-1853
- VDL Convict Labour Contracts 1848-1857
- WA Convict Probation Records 1850-1868
Imprisonment Records
- Bridewell House of Correction Prisoners 1740-1795
- Deaths in London Prisons 1760-1869
- Hulks Registers 1801-1879
- Prison Registers 1770-1951
- Middlesex House of Detention Calendars 1836-1889
- Newgate Calendars of Prisoners 1855-1931
- UK Licences for the Parole of Convicts 1853-1925
- Metropolitan Police Register of Habitual Criminals 1881-1925
- Prisoner Photograph Albums 1871-1873
