Links to Other Sites
- The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834
A fully searchable online edition of the surviving reports of the Old Bailey trial proceedings, together with an extensive database of associated records and many informative background articles. A magnificent resource for researchers.
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
Wonderful online resource. Many highwayman and Robin Hood ballads. Excellent search facilities.
- Rochester Robin Hood Project
Online editions of many Robin Hood texts, including all the main medieval narratives and many broadside ballads. Also several bibliographies, and links to other Robin Hood sites.
- TEAMS Middle English Texts
- See especially:
- Gesta Herwardi (‘The Deeds of Hereward’), introduction and translated selections
- Fouke le Fitz Waryn (Anglo-Norman romance), introduction and translated selections
- The Tale of Gamelyn, introduction and edition
- The Newgate Calendar (i)
Online reissue of the Navarre Society edition published in five vols in 1926; contains many short lives of highwaymen. Unfortunately, the texts are composites drawn from several eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century collections, so serious scholars need to use this collection with care. It is indexed.
It is part of the Law in Popular Culture Collection maintained by the Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas. This site also has an extensive links page.
- The Newgate Calendar (ii)
A different online edition; it is based on the Navarre Society text, but supplements it with additional cases and material drawn from other sources. The site has a bibliographical note listing various editions of the works that are loosely referred to as ‘Newgate Calendars’.
- Early Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Reports: A Sourcebook (Rictor Norton)
Includes a section containing news reports of highway robberies along with material on many other crime-related topics.
- Claude Du Vall - England’s Illustrious Thief
Site dedicated to the seventeenth-century highwayman Claude Du Vall.
- Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw of Barnsdale and Sherwood (Allen W. Wright)
Some ballad texts, also articles and interviews.
- Robin Hood: A Bibliography (Stephen R. Reimer)
Annotated and very extensive.
- Tyburn Tree. Public Execution in Early Modern England (Charlie Mitchell)
A collection of documents and images, with a bibliography and links to other sites.
- Canting Dictionary, 1736
A dictionary of thieves’ slang taken from The Universal Etymological English Dictionary, by N. Bailey, London, 1737.
- crimeculture.com (Lee Horsley)
Reviews and articles, some source material. See especially the Rogue’s gallery, which has a list of links, a bibliography and some useful documents. These include The Life and Death of Mrs. Mary Frith, Commonly Called Mal Cutpurse.
- John Lea’s Website
Articles on criminology.
- Project Gutenberg Electronic Public Library
Large collection of classic texts in electronic form. Among the texts included are:
- The Beggar’s Opera, by John Gay
- Utopia, by Sir Thomas More
- Paul Clifford, by Edward Bulwer
The following gateway sites will lead you to further links on topics relating to English history and literature:
Early Modern Resources (Sharon Howard)
A well-maintained and valuable resource, with a special section on law and order, also a page of links to Early Modern Bibliographies and Early Modern E-Prints, a directory of open-access academic papers and publications.
Luminarium (Anniina Jokinen)
Medieval, Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and its background.
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The UK higher and further education gateway to online humanities resources.
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Gateway site maintained by the Institute for Historical Research (UK).
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Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas. Maintained by the Centre for Digital Library Research, Strathclyde University.
Early Modern Literary Studies. WWW-Accessible Resources (Perry Willett)
Links to resource materials useful to literary scholars working in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Early modern English history: includes pages of links to research resources (including bibliographies) and web sites.
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