Old Bailey Trials – 1674 to 1834

This is amazing! A group have taken about 150 years of Old Bailey transcripts (well summarisings), scanned, catalogued, databased, and put on a website. And it’s all free with seemingly no catches.
A few weeks back I visted the London 1753 exhibition at the British Museum a few weeks back (entry seems to be sadly missing!).
Anyway, a quick search on “Elizabeth Canning” reveals quite a lot of transcript detail about this case that was infamous at the time. It revolves around Elizabeth Canning who disappeared after New Year 1753 and emerged some weeks later claiming to have been kidnapped and held against her will in Enfield Wash. Some very interesting reading based around a case at the time that was as big as anything the country had seen.


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