Best Witches
A very useful and wide-ranging set of resources (Joan Pontius) (NB: Wayback Archive)
The ‘bloody papist’: murder, papists and propaganda in early modern prose pamphlets
NB: link to download MS Word document
article by Lynne Robson (Warwick Centre for the Study of the Renaissance)
From Renaissance Journal, 2:1 (2004)
1737 Canting Dictionary
transcription (in XML format) of N. Bailey’s Universal Etymological English Dictionary (Liam Quin)
Clothing, cloth and cloth-theft in Defoe’s England
An essay looking at clothing, the second-hand clothes trade and theft in the early eighteenth century (Melissa Johnson)
The Complete Newgate Calendar
The complete text (searchable) of the 1926 edition of this eighteenth-century source (University of Texas, Law in Popular Culture collection)
Crime and literature in the eighteenth century
Bibliography (Edith Hallberg)
Crime and popular protest
overview essay by Steve Hindle; a useful introduction to the subject
chapter in B Coward (ed), A companion to Stuart Britain (Blackwell, 2003)
The duello in Elizabethan England
A lively (if not very scholarly) essay about the culture of the duel in early modern England (Maelgwyn Dda)
Early Modern Crime, Law and Order bibliography
a broad-ranging themed bibliography of published secondary sources, searchable (EMR)
Early Modern Witchcraft
Vast scholarly bibliography, now searchable and browsable by subject and region (Jonathan Durrant)
London’s disreputable south bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
article by Jessica A Browner, examining Southwark’s notorious reputation during the early modern period, a shady world of petty crime, alehouses and prostitution (U. Virginia)
From Essays in History, 36 (1994)
Outlaws and Highwaymen
Presents a wide range of texts (including ballads, newspaper reports, fictional stories, memoirs), as well as an outline history, bibliography and links (Gillian Spraggs)
Pirates and their Enemies
A range of materials for a taught course: includes primary documents, bibliography, web links (C R Pennell)
Rogue’s gallery: the early literature of crime online
This resource covers the middle ages through to the eighteenth century, with primary source materials, arranged chronologically and by themes such as ‘cony-catchers’ and ‘murderers’, plus a glossary, links and bibliography (Culturecrime)
Salem witch trials documentary archive
An excellent resource for the history of the 1692 witchcraft trials (University of Virginia)
Seventeenth-century New England and the Salem witch trials
A range of resources; includes sections about daily life, religion, the Mathers, as well as the witch trials and The Crucible (Margo Burns)
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft
an electronic resource for the history of witchcraft and witch-hunting in Scotland, consisting of a database of all people known to have been accused of witchcraft in early modern Scotland, along with supporting material (Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin, Joyce Miller and Louise Yeoman)
True Crime: The Origins of Modern Sensationalism
article by Joy Wiltenberg, discussing early print representations of crime (History Cooperative)
From American Historical Review, 109.5 (2004?)
Violence in early modern Europe
An extensive bibliographical essay, with sections on representations of crime; states, arms and armies; justice; interpersonal violence; ritual group violence; violent popular protest; organised crime (Julius Ruff)
Wales and the Law
A selection of original sources (printed and archival) on crime in Wales, c.1500-1800 (at this site)
The Witch Hunts
Online primary and secondary source materials and web resources (Internet Archive of Texts and Documents)
Witchcraft in seventeenth-century Flintshire
Original court records digitised, with bibliography (National Library of Wales)
Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England
essay by Alan Macfarlane; an early example of anthropologically-influenced historical study of the subject
chapter in Mary Douglas (ed), Witchcraft, Confessions and Accusations (Tavistock, 1970)
Witchcraft Links WWW-VL
Listing of online primary sources, bibliographies, resources on European and American witchcraft (Stephanie Marra)
The Witching Hours
A beautifully designed site, with sections on: documents; potions and spells; modern parallels; people; punishment and torture; and much more (Shantell Powell)
