Law and Law Enforcement

The English Legal System

• History of the Judiciary

• History of Justices of the Peace (magistrates)

• Another History of Justices of the Peace

Courts

• A brief description of the 19th Century Criminal Justice System

• Courts of Quarter Sessions

• The Quarter Sessions

• Quarter Sessions Records- what they hold

• History of Assize Courts

The Inns of Court

• A history of the Inns of Court

• Gray's Inn

• The Inner Temple Includes a database of admissions between 1547 and 1850

• The Middle Temple

• Lincoln's Inn

Trials and Court Hearings

• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834 Also has old maps and other info about London history.

• Famous Trials Worldwide

• Early 18th Century Crime Reports

• Important English trials 1649-1895

• Criminal Courts in the 19th Century

• A History of Crime in Northumberland and Durham

• Court of Great Sessions in Wales from 1730 until 1830.

• Convicts tried at Nottingham Borough Quarter Sessions Assizes

• Kent Quarter Sessions Indices

• An index of over 8000 prisoners brought to trial at York Assizes between 1785 and 1851

• A database of persons tried at the Derbyshire Petty Sessions and Quarter Sessions 1770-1828.

• Crime and Punishment in Buckinghamshire

• Crime and Puishment in Powys

• Prisoners sentenced to transportation from Lewes Assizes between c1790 and c1850

• A guide to Court and Prison Records in Manchester

• History of Crime and Detection with specific reference to Shropshire

• The Trial of the Lowestoft Witches

See also separate section on Convict Transportation

Murder

• Black Sheep index

• Comprehensive list of Murders and Murderers-some info quite disturbing

• Murders in Liverpool

Executions-Executioners

• The English Hangmen from 1850 to 1964

• Capital Punishments Executed at Strangeways, Manchester

• List Of Executions - England 1606 Onward

• Capital Punishment in the 18th & 19th Centuries

• Capital Punishment in the Commonwealth

• The Abolition of Hanging in Britain

• Timeline of Capital Punishment in Britain

• The History of Judicial Hanging in Britain.

• The Guillotine Headquarters

• Executions in Derbyshire

• The Halifax Gibbet

Gaols

• Bedford Gaol in 19th Century

• Aylesbury Prison in the 1870s Includes details of the prisoner's crime and sentence, and, in some instances, his photograph.

• Warwick County Prison between 1800 and 1900 Inmates Database

• Derby Gaol 1756-1825 List of Executed Prisoners

• A History of Newgate Prison including List of Inmates and Victims

• HMP Parkhurst Prisoners and Warders in the 19th Century

• Chester Gaol, 1808-1816

• Database of Convicts held at Lancaster Castle

• Warwickshire prisoners 1800-1900

• Inveraray Prisonincluding prisoners who were deported]

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