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Proceedings of the Old Bailey

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Mary Sexton at Heafey Headnotes writes about a recent Smithsonian article discussing the digitization project, Proceedings of the Old Bailey. The "Old Bailey" was London's felony court. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey is a "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." More details are available at Heafey Headnotes.