Teaching Resources
Crime and the Law in England and Wales
c.1500-1800
This page has been created primarily as a gateway resource for students in the Department of History and Welsh History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, studying the module HY33820: Investigating Crime in Early Modern Society in 2006, who should use it in conjunction with the course weblog for news and announcements.
HY33820 students: local resources, study information
Department of History and Welsh History
UWA electronic information resources
Blackboard (uwa password required)
Early English Books Online (EEBO) (requires AthensDA password for access off campus)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) (AthensDA password off campus)
Literature Online (LI-ON) (AthensDA password off campus)
Oxford English Dictionary (AthensDA password off campus)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (AthensDA password off campus)
NB: Info on Athens passwords (and login page)
Evaluating Information on the Internet
Plagiarism: what it is and how to avoid it
General background etc
Historical Background (Old Bailey Proceedings Online (OBP))
Crime, Law and Order links (at this site)
Crime and Punishment (The National Archives)
Crime and the Law (Internet Shakespeare Editions)
The National Archives research guides and leaflets, including:
- Guide to sources for history of crime and the law in England
- Assizes: criminal trials
- Catholic recusants
- Sources for convicts and prisoners
Reference
Listing of online primary sources (at this site)
Glossary of legal terms etc (at this site)
EMR (in progress) print primary sources list
Crime and Punishment database, a searchable database calendaring cases prosecuted at the Court of Great Sessions in Wales, 1730-1830
Bibliographies
Crime, Law and Order Bibliography (at this site)
Law and Society bibliography (taught course)
Violence in Early Modern Europe, extensive bibliographical essay
History of Rape bibliography, early modern section
Honour, reputation and defamation bibliography (at this site)
British Police History bibliography (NB that you can leave the title/author fields blank and instead ask for all titles on particular historical periods.)
Capital Punishment bibliography (Tyburn Tree)
Convicts and the Colonies bibliography (taught course)
Crime and Literature in the 18th century bibliography (taught course)
Outlaws and Highwaymen bibliography
British and Irish history bibliography (Royal Historical Society) searchable database
Early Modern Resources www.earlymodernweb.org.uk
This page last updated 3 January 2005 by Sharon Howard
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