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Dr Sharon Howard (Project Manager – University of Sheffield)

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

Digital Panopticon

This project brings together genealogical, biometric and criminal justice datasets held in the UK and Australia in order to explore the impact of the different types of penal punishments on the lives of 90,000 people sentenced at The Old Bailey between 1780 and 1925.

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Completed / Dr Estelle Stubbs (Research Associate – University of Sheffield)

Manuscripts Online – Written Culture from 1000 to 1500

Federated searching of primary resources relating to written and early printed culture in Britain during the medieval period.

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Completed / Dr Sharon Howard (Project Manager – University of Sheffield)

Locating London’s Past

A GIS interface for mapping textual and artefactual data relating to the 17th and 18th centuries against early maps of London.

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Completed / Dr Sharon Howard (Project Manager – University of Sheffield)

Crime in the Community

Enhancing user engagement for teaching and research with the Old Bailey Online website.

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Completed / Dr Sharon Howard (Project Manager – University of Sheffield)

Connected Histories: Sources for Building British History, 1500-1900

Sophisticated, federated searching of a wide range of electronic sources on the subject of early modern and nineteenth-century British history.

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Completed / Dr Sharon Howard (Project Manager – University of Sheffield)

London Lives

A comprehensive electronic edition of primary sources on criminal justice and the provision of poor relief and medical care in eighteenth-century London.

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Alumni Fund (The University of Sheffield) / Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Old Bailey Proceedings Online

The proceedings of the Old Bailey from 1674 to 1913 provide accounts of 197,000 criminal trials.

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