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livius drusus
02-15-2006, 06:35 PM
OMGOMGOMG! Look what I just found (http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/)! :hyper:

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834

A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
fragment
02-15-2006, 06:40 PM
Cool! That will be good for looking up the juicy scandals of ancestors.
livius drusus
02-15-2006, 06:42 PM
I'm hitting the moral turpitude files first. :heybabeh:
SharonDee
02-15-2006, 06:48 PM
OMGOMGOMG! Look what I just found! :hyper:Dammit. My lunch break just ended. :darn:
livius drusus
02-15-2006, 07:08 PM
Just bring a laptop into The Think Tank and hang a do not disturb sign on the door. It'll probably be the only time the poor room actually lives up to its billing.
fragment
02-15-2006, 08:12 PM
There's gotta be some famous people in there. Prize for the first person to find one.
Carnivale Ed
02-16-2006, 11:25 AM
I'm guessing there's a crim or two in there who was transported to Oz. Bastards didn't know how lucky they were :)
fragment
02-16-2006, 12:51 PM
More than one or two. You can search by sentence:transportation.
Petra
02-16-2006, 01:02 PM
What do they mean by "non-elite" people? Would they be those who are not in the aristocracy only, or would it include others, too - like clergy, people famous for things other than their crimes (theatre or something), wealthy merchants, etc?
fragment
02-16-2006, 01:16 PM
I didn't see the "non-elite" bit. I guess that reduces my hopes of finding famous folk. Can't say what they mean by it.
Sock Puppet
02-16-2006, 08:27 PM
My guess is that means "not of name," i.e., without a title. So no one who was knighted or carried a hereditary or acquired title, but probably everyone else.
Dingfod
02-17-2006, 04:32 PM
Just did a few searches using family names. It was surprising how many times "theft of handkerchief" came up, both as victims and as defendants.
livius drusus
02-17-2006, 05:41 PM
Damn hanky fiends.
Dingfod
02-17-2006, 06:41 PM
I'm beginning to think there was only one handkerchief in England back then and they kept stealing it from each other.
livius drusus
02-17-2006, 07:00 PM
Well that would explain the constant plague outbreaks.
Dingfod
02-17-2006, 07:15 PM
It certainly would. That was during The Great Handkerchief Shortage of the 1760s-1830s.
ms_ann_thrope
02-17-2006, 08:31 PM
Awesome find, liv! :popcorn: