The musings of a big city grad student in a small town liberal arts school.

beatonna: The Old Bailey, online.  Try to picture the staggering amount of information on this site: “The Old Bailey Proceedings Online makes available a fully searchable, digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1913, and of the Ordinary of Newgate’s Accounts between 1676 and 1772. It allows access to over 197,000 trials and biographical details of approximately 2,500 men and women executed at Tyburn, free of charge for non-commercial use.” On top of this, there is a great amount of general information, from who lived in London and when and what the different communities were like, what types of punishments were common… just click on the ‘historical background’ link and get into it. So, the amazing Kate Beaton has been on Tumblr for less than a week now, and she’s already posted the source that provided most of the primary information for my undergraduate thesis. The other primary source I used was the Newgate Calendar, which is also mentioned in Ms. Beaton’s post. (My thesis was on highway robbery in England between 1680 and 1750: Myth vs Reality.) I am so happy. Really, following her is already paying off big time for this nerd.

beatonna:

The Old Bailey, online.  Try to picture the staggering amount of information on this site:

“The Old Bailey Proceedings Online makes available a fully searchable, digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1913, and of the Ordinary of Newgate’s Accounts between 1676 and 1772. It allows access to over 197,000 trials and biographical details of approximately 2,500 men and women executed at Tyburn, free of charge for non-commercial use.”

On top of this, there is a great amount of general information, from who lived in London and when and what the different communities were like, what types of punishments were common… just click on the ‘historical background’ link and get into it.

So, the amazing Kate Beaton has been on Tumblr for less than a week now, and she’s already posted the source that provided most of the primary information for my undergraduate thesis. The other primary source I used was the Newgate Calendar, which is also mentioned in Ms. Beaton’s post. (My thesis was on highway robbery in England between 1680 and 1750: Myth vs Reality.)

I am so happy. Really, following her is already paying off big time for this nerd.

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