Research guides

• Courts of law records from the medieval period: general eyres 1194-1348
  
  Keywords: civil litigationcourts of lawcrime and criminalscriminal courtseyres (general)general eyreslaw and ordermedieval periodtrials
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  Crime, prisons and punishment 1770-1935
  
  …selected crime records for England and Wales 1770-1935. …
  Keywords: digitised recordsonline collections All records viewable online
• Criminal court cases: assize courts 1559-1971
  
  …Their Crime and Punishment database contains records of criminal trials as well as other information relating to criminals, punishment and crime in Wales. …
  Keywords: assize courtscourts of lawcrime and criminalscriminal courtsearly modern periodlaw and ordertrials
• Criminal court cases: Crown courts since 1972
  
  …photographs of the crime scene sentence detail of appeal if there was one a case file number (which you can help you to find an indictment). …
  Keywords: central criminal courtcourts of lawcrime and criminalscriminal courtscrown courtslaw and ordermagistrates' courtsold baileytrials
• Criminal court cases: Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court)
  
  Keywords: central criminal courtcourts of lawcrime and criminalscriminal courtslaw and orderold baileytrials
• Criminal transportation
  
  …their crime and sentence. …
  Keywords: australia (transportation to)convictscrime and criminalsprisonerstransportation (punishment)
• Government film-making and the film industry
  
  …crime prevention, food and farming, and the environment. …
  Keywords: filmpropaganda
• Government surveys, statistics and other datasets from the National Digital Archive of Datasets, 1963-2010
  
  …crime and nature, amongst others. …
  Keywords: datasetsdigital datasetsdigitised recordsnational digital archive of datasetsonline collectionsstatisticssurveys All records viewable online
• Nazi persecution and the Holocaust
  
  Keywords: control commissionforeign officeholocaustjewish historynazi germanysecond world warwar crimesworld war two
• Outlaws and outlawry in medieval and early modern England
  
  Keywords: crime and criminalsearly modern periodlaw and ordermedieval periodoutlaws
• Photographs
  
  …housing and crime to war, heavy industry and British interests overseas. …
  Keywords: photographs
• Sexuality and gender identity history
  
  …Section 164 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 gave posthumous pardons for convictions of certain abolished offences, including those under certain sections of the Sexual Offences Act 1956. …
  Keywords: civil rightsgay and lesbian historylesbian and gay historylgbtq
• Victorian prisoners’ photograph albums 1872-1873
  
  Keywords: digitised recordsonline collectionsphotographsprisoners All records viewable online
• War crimes 1939-1945
  
  …for selected records of war crime trials of Europe (such as the Nuremburg trials) and the Far East. …
  Keywords: control commissionnazi germanynuremberg trialssecond world warwar crimesworld war two