Proceedings of the Old Bailey

Featured in the April 2007 issue of Smithsonian magazine, a prodigious web site:

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey

A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court…

Contains 101,102 trials, from April 1674 to October 1834…