...IV, cap. 113, on Friday the 27th, Saturday the 28th, and Monday the 30th of October, 1843, at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London : a full report /...

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The dearest birth right of the people of England : the jury in the history of the common law

Table of Contents: “…The limits of discretion: forgery and the jury at the Old Bailey, 1818-21 /…”
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Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then. by Arendholz, Jenny

Table of Contents: “…Haunting Evidence: Quoting the Prisoner in 19th Century Old Bailey Trial Discourse. The Defences of Cooper (1842) and McNaughten (1843) --…”
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Fighting for justice : the history and origins of adversary trial by Hostettler, John

Table of Contents: “…-- No counsel for prisoners -- Treason Trials Act : the birth of adversary trial -- Rights of the individual -- Sir William Garrow -- Garrow at the Old Bailey I -- Garrow at the Old Bailey II -- Rules of criminal evidence -- Counsel finally address the jury.…”
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Unconscious crime : mental absence and criminal responsibility in Victorian London by Eigen, Joel Peter, 1947-

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Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women : Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783. by Ziegler, Edith M.

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Social change, crime, and the law -- Punishment, pleas, and the prospect of exile -- Bound for Maryland -- Arrival in the New World -- Servants and masters -- Escape -- Going home and staying on -- Mary Nobody in the republic of virtue -- Appendix 1: Statistical information on convict women -- Appendix 2: List of convict women's occupations -- Appendix 3: Privy council resolution, 1615 -- Appendix 4: Transportation act of 1718 -- Appendix 5: Crimes punished by transportation at the old bailey 1718-1776 -- Appendix 6: Colonial legislation regarding convicts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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They Hanged My Saintly Billy by Graves, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Foreword; Contents; I The Old Bailey: May 14th, 1856; II The Wiles of Jane Widnall; III Mr Duffy's Sample Box; IV Colonel Brookes's Resolution; V Stafford Infirmary; VI At Bart's; VII The Courtship of Annie Brookes; VIII The Nursery; IX An Unfortunate Series of Deaths; X English Cholera; XI 'A Good Life'; XII A Gentleman of Property; XIII 'Two Narrow Shaves'; XIV Financial Straits; XV Death at The Talbot Arms; XVI Step-father to the Deceased; XVII The Inquest on John Parsons Cook; XVIII Stafford Gaol; XIX Unreliable Witnesses; XX Absent Witnesses…”
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Liminal Discourses : Subliminal Tensions in Law and Literature. by Carpi, Daniela

Table of Contents: “…Moll Flanders, Ordinary's Accounts and Old Bailey ProceedingsAriel and Caliban as Law-conscious Servants Longing for Legal Personhood; Altered Bodies, Fragmented Selves: Reconstructing the Subject in Fay Weldon's The Cloning of Joanna May; The Business of Law and Literature: to Compose an Order, to imagine Man; Renaissance into Postmodernism: Anticipations of Legal Unrest.…”
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Angry brigade : the spectacular rise and fall of Britain's first urban guerilla group

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Ricin! : the inside story of the terror plot that never was by Archer, Lee, 1919-2010

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Women, work and sociability in early modern London by Reinke-Williams, Tim

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Disorderly women in eighteenth-century London : prostitution and control in the metropolis, 1730-1830 by Henderson, Tony, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The Geography of Prostitution in London; The evidence of the Old Bailey; Areas of particular concentration; Disorderly houses in the City.…”
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A tale of two cities. Episode 3

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Playboys and Mayfair men : crime, class, masculinity, and fascism in 1930s London by McLaren, Angus

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Justice in Middlesex : a brief history of the Uxbridge Magistrates' Court by Bowlt, Eileen M.

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The life of slang by Coleman, Julie

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Whores and highwaymen : crime and justice in the eighteenth-century metropolis by Durston, Gregory

Table of Contents: “…""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Preface""; ""About the Author""; ""Dedication""; ""PICTURE SECTION""; ""Part One: Crime and the Metropolis""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Terms of Reference""; ""Sources of Information""; ""Printed primary sources""; ""Old Bailey Sessions Papers""; ""Treatises and biographies""; ""Historiography""; ""THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY METROPOLIS""; ""Introduction""; ""Metropolitan Government""; ""The City""; ""Southwark""; ""Westminster and urban Middlesex""; ""Expansion of the Conurbation""; ""Population Growth""; ""Mortality""…”
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Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics

Table of Contents: “…Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen -- I had lost sight of them then for a bit, but I went on pretty fast : two degree modifiers in the Old Bailey Corpus / Claudia Claridge and Merja Kytö -- Grammaticalisation of the Finnish stance adverbial muka, 'as if, supposedly, allegedly' / Taru Nordlund and Heli Pekkarinen -- From degree/manner adverbs to pragmatic particles in Japanese : a corpus-based approach to the diachronic parallel developments of amari, bakari, and yahari / Rumiko Shinzato -- Analyzing polysemy statistically across time : Täpselt 'exactly, precisely' -- a word with many faces / Annika Küngas -- On the development of the Italian truth adverbs davvero and veramente / Davide Ricca and Jacqueline Visconti -- "Strong churlish purging Pills" : multi-adjectival premodification in early modern medical writing in English / Jukka Tyrkkö -- On the origin of clausal parenthetical constructions : evidential/epistemic parentheticals with seem and impersonal think / María José López-Couso and Belén Méndez-Naya -- Tracing the history of deontic NCI patterns in Dutch / Timothy Colleman and Dirk Noël -- Front field negation in spoken Swedish : a regional archaism? …”
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Mad-doctors in the dock : defending the diagnosis, 1760-1913 by Eigen, Joel Peter, 1947-

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Mad-doctors in the dock : defending the diagnosis, 1760-1913 by Eigen, Joel Peter, 1947-

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Twenty famous lawyers by Hostettler, John

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Hellenism and homosexuality in Victorian Oxford by Dowling, Linda C., 1944-

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Corpus linguistics on the move : exploring and understanding English through corpora

Table of Contents: “…A Construction Grammar View on Changing Article Use with Single Role Predicates in American English -- Chapter 12 Clause Fragments in English Dialogue -- Part 4 Corpus Insights into the Pragmatics of Spoken English -- Chapter 13 The Expression of Directive Meaning: A Corpus-Based Study on the Variation between Imperatives, Conditionals, and Insubordinate If-Clauses in Spoken British English* -- Chapter 14 Taboo Language and Swearing in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English: A Diachronic Study Based on the Old Bailey Corpus -- Chapter 15 The 'Humour' Element in Engineering Lectures Across Cultures: An Approach to Pragmatic Annotation -- Index.…”
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An introduction to late modern English by Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid

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Don't Start Me Talking : Subculture, Situationism and the Sixties. by Radcliffe, Charles

Table of Contents: “…; CHAPTER 19 FORGERY AND FREAK OUT; CHAPTER 20 DID I JUMP, OR WAS I PUSHED?; CHAPTER 21 THE OLD BAILEY: January 1968; PART THREE SEX, DOPE AND CHEAP JAILS; CHAPTER 22 OXFORD DAYS: 1968-9; CHAPTER 23 GRAHAM PLINSTON: 1968; CHAPTER 24 ALLAH DELIVERS THE GOODS First run: Autumn 1968; CHAPTER 25 BACK TO THE SMOKE: 1969.…”
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Discourse-pragmatic variation in context : eight hundred years of like by D'Arcy, Alexandra, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Empirical context -- Diachronic corpora -- The Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English -- A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560-1760 -- Old Bailey Proceedings -- Corpus of Irish English Correspondence -- Corpus of Historical American English -- Origins of New Zealand English -- Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English -- State Library of Western Australia Oral History Corpus -- Victoria English Archive: Diachronic Component -- Corpus of Earlier Ontario English -- Synchronic corpora -- Corpus of Contemporary American English -- International Corpus of English -- Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language -- York English Corpus -- St. …”
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Legal pragmatics

Table of Contents: “…: Pragmatic effects of negative questioning in child rape trials in the Old Bailey Proceedings 1730-1798; 1. Introduction; 2. …”
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Pragmatic markers and peripheries

Table of Contents: “…Of course in Late Modern English -- 3.1 Data sources -- 3.2 Of course in the Old Bailey corpus -- 4. Of course in PDE -- 4.1 Of course as a pragmatic marker -- 4.2 Of course in PDE: Functions and contextual uses -- 4.3 Of course in PDE at LP and RP -- 5. …”
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