Crime and Community a look at how the media tackled crime in the 18th and 19th centuries. from the British Library website Newgate Calendar (or Malefactor's Bloody Register) The original series of this work, by R. Sanders was published in five volumes in 1760 and narrated notorious crimes from 1700 till then.  There were many later editions. Later series were issued from about 1820 as the Newgate Calendar, and the New Newgate Calendar appeared weekly from 1863 to1865. There was also an Annals of Newgate  by the Rev. M. Villette and others (1776). Sensational Murders of the 19th Century a list with the necessary links to the attendent websites where details of these murders maybe found   The Proceedings of The Old Bailey, London(1674 to 1834) One of the most interesting websites to appear on the internet in a good long time. 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.  Tyburn Tree The first execution at Tyburn took place in 1196, the last in 1783. The first hangings were carried out from tree branches on the bank of the Tyburn River, but in 1220 a pair of gallows were built on the site. The Triple Tree (the name given to the gallows) was built in 1571, and removed in 1759 because it was obstructing the highway.  A mobile gallows was used until public executions ceased there........the fate of many a malefactor

	related internet links A Most Curious Murder the Madeline Smith Case. a multimedia website detailing all the facts about this murder   Crime and Punishment in 19th Century Dundee, Scotland. from the Alexander Crawford Lamb Collection held at the Dundee Central Library  Highwaymen though highway robbery has always been a threat to the traveller, the period from the mid-seventeenth to the late eighteenth century is regarded as the heyday of the ‘highwayman’, that mounted robber who, usually alone, preyed on travellers then galloped away The History Of  The Highwaymen the companion website to Gillian Spragg's book Outlaws and Highwaymen published by Pimlico Books. 2001