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Purpose-built, dedicated Coroner’s Courts began to be constructed during the late 19th century, particularly in London, Figure 1. A keystone decorated with a bust of the blindfolded figure of Justice on the main elevation of the County Court at Sunderland,1875-6 by James Williams of HM Office of Works.
One of the most famous events of 19th century London was the Great Exhibition of 1851. Held at The Crystal Palace , the fair attracted visitors from across the world and displayed Britain at the height of its imperial dominance.
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- Criminal Justice Pathways
- The Court System
- Themes of Change Over Time
- Conclusion
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Those accused of a crime in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century London entered into a system that has been likened to a corridor of connected rooms. At each stage, decisions were made that might remove the accused from the system entirely, or propel that person further along the process, in a number of possible directions. The commission of a crimin...
The criminal courts of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century London consisted of a series of separate courts spread across multiple levels, often with overlapping jurisdictions. As such, criminal accusations could be dealt with in a number of different ways, as shown in the diagram below (click here for a larger version).
The period from the later eighteenth to the early twentieth century witnessed significant changes in the criminal justice system. Whilst the general structure of the courts remained largely the same — as it did until the Courts Act in 1971 — many other aspects of the criminal justice system were transformed. Some of these changes were the result of...
Through calendars of prisoners, criminal registers and the Old Bailey Proceedings, - amongst many other sources - the records included in this website allow many of the changes summarised here to be investigated in detail and the evolution of modern criminal justice to be uncovered.
Bentley, D. English Criminal Justice in the Nineteenth Century. A & C Black, 1998.Godfrey, Barry, and Paul Lawrence. Crime and Justice 1750–1950. Willan, 2005.Gray, Drew D. Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660–1914. Bloomsbury, 2016.King, Peter. Crime, Justice, and Discretion in England, 1740–1820. Oxford University Press, 2000.This page was written by Richard Ward, with additional contributions by other members of the Digital Panopticon project team.
The following is a timeline of the history of London in the 19th century, the capital of England and the United Kingdom . 1800 to 1809[edit] 8 January: The first soup kitchens are opened in London. [1] 13 January: The Royal Institution is granted a royal charter. [2]
the late 19th century, particularly in London, to provide somewhere for a coroner and a jury to inspect the dead body as part of the process of reaching a verdict about a death. Due to the sensitive nature of their work, Coroner’s Courts were often located in a discreet location close to a mortuary, and often in a graveyard.
There are huge gaps, for varying periods, in most series after 1630-1631. The majority of the files for the last two centuries of the court’s existence were destroyed in the 19th century. Many of those that have survived and have been identified are only partial, and what remains is sometimes badly damaged.
A searchable online edition of the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913.
