What's New

Changes to the Old Bailey website in January 2010

Forty new Ordinary's Accounts, primarily from between 1676 and 1690 and 1740 and 1760, have been added. This website now includes all known surviving copies of the Ordinary's Accounts. If you know of any which have not been included here, please contact us.

Minor corrections to some trial transcripts and tagging have been made. We are grateful to contributors to the user wiki for identifying some of these errors.

Keyword searching for three letter words (with the exception of stop words) has been restored.

Further information about current and future projects, including the planned launch of the London Lives website in April 2011, and a new project, Connected Histories, which will create a federated search facility for sources in British History, is included on the About this Project page.

We have also included a full archive of all the announcements of changes made to the website since our initial launch in 2003.