Renegotiating the Bloody Code: London in the 1780s
Tim Hitchcock Professorial Lecture
This lecture was delivered on Monday 5 July 2010 by Professor Tim Hitchcock
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About Professor Hitchcock
In a dozen books published over the last twenty years, Tim Hitchcock has helped to create a 'new history from below' which puts the experiences and agency of the poor and of working people at the heart of our understanding of the history of eighteenth-century Britain. In collaboration with Robert Shoemaker and Clive Emsley, he has also created an on-line and entirely searchable edition of The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913, the largest body of published material detailing the lives of non-elite people ever produced. Visit the Old Bailey online website.
In June 2010, Hitchcock and Shoemaker launched a new website, London Lives, 1690-1800. By posting transcripts and images of 240,000 pages of manuscripts detailing the workings of the poor relief and the criminal justice systems, Hitchcock is helping to create new ways of understanding the British past and bringing the raw materials of social history to a wide public audience. Visit the London Lives website.