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@ahrcpress funded collaborative project examining impact of penal punishment on lives of c,100,000 people sentenced at the Old Bailey 1785-1875

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Just posted: Come TogetheR: Combining data tables in R with dplyr join verbs https://t.co/ch0UsPc8lQ

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Just posted: Tidying Tattoos: Handling missing data and non-tidy columns https://t.co/7tpuWs6SbV

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Just posted: A first look at tattoos in the Digital Panopticon https://t.co/e383uI1Tnh

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Just posted: Data Release: Tattoos in the Digital Panopticon Database, 1793-1925 https://t.co/nflq8wGQrH

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you can get straight to the evidence post-trial on the Digital Panopticon website from the first page of the OBO. If anyone would like to follow the evidence themselves then check it out! https://t.co/G6Y09PYgL1

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(4) OBO evidence suggests the court was actually using it as it was intended as early as 1823.

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(1) The meaning of 'death recorded' is not ambiguous. For more information see Simon Devereaux, 'Execution and Pardon at the Old Bailey
1730-1837', American Journal of Legal History, 57 (2017), footnote 14. 'A statute of 1823 (4 Geo IV c48) empowered trial judges on the

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(3) London until fourteen years later, by the samestatute which abolished the Recorder’s Report (1 Vict c77).'
While the practice was not legally extended to London until 1837 (still well before the case Wolf cites)

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Why Naomi Wolf misinterpreted evidence from the Old Bailey Online https://t.co/TENkBeMci3 via @History Matters

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Let's try that again... A short post with some visualisations from the Hackathon! https://t.co/RHCBTQVVP7

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Tattoos Hackathon, 16 April 2019 /post/2019/05/21/tattoos-hackathon-16-april-2019/ Introduction Designs: word correlations (selected words) Designs: word correlations Subjects: correlation plot Designs: comparing word use by punishment Introduction For the project’s data h…

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Tattoos Hackathon, 16 April 2019 /post/2019/05/21/tattoos-hackathon-16-april-2019/ Introduction Designs: word correlations (selected words) Designs: word correlations Subjects: correlation plot Designs: comparing word use by punishment Introduction For the project’s data h…

[Kim Price @sickandpoor]

Lancet essay just out! We ask if Victorian systems can solve modern prisoner health problems https://t.co/2QnTtWeVtx

[Criminal Characters @CrimCharacters]

Digital Panopticon allows you to search millions of records relating to the lives of 90,000 convicts @digipanoptic https://t.co/D5aRIU1Oti

[Lucy Williams @Lucy_E_Williams]

So thrilled to be able to announce that my new book Convicts in the Colonies has just been published. Its been my pet project/obsession for the last couple of years whilst hard at work on @digipanoptic and now its finally here!!! Read all about it: https://t.co/aqirIRcW0N

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New project! It's all about DP's many thousands of descriptions of criminals' tattoos. Find out more... https://t.co/28NGP0P5wC

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One of the many fascinating cases you can find in the DP database. Here are just some of our records for Julia Rigby: https://t.co/F1IasTDj4u

[WaywardWomen @19thC_Offenders]

Are you a Victorian woman? Finding yourself stuck in an endless cycle of crime and incarceration? Sick of the daily grind at Brixton prison? Why not try Penal transportation? It worked for Julia Rigby, and could do the same for you! #actualresultsmayvary https://t.co/piXGNsPQTu

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Digital Panopticon allows you to search millions of records relating to the lives of 90,000 convicts @digipanoptic https://t.co/D5aRIUjpkQ

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@Prison_Voices @nma Hmm. It might be that Mary was such an early transportee that very few records survived for her. She was tried in Devonshire so won't have many records in our database. Have you checked the early convic indexes for NSW? Trove?