Early American Crime

• Capital Punishment U.K.
  

Various articles, lists, and information about capital punishment carried out in the United Kingdom.

• Convicts to Australia: A Guide to Researching Your Convict Ancestors

Even if you do not have an Australian convict ancestor, you can find interesting information about convict transportation to Australia.

• Dying Speeches & Bloody Murders: Crime Broadsides Collected By the Harvard Law School Library

A searchable collection of over 500 images of crime broadsides spanning the years 1707 to 1891.

• Early Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Reports
  

Transcribed newspaper articles about crime, criminals, and other related topics.

• Early Modern Resources: Crime

A list of electronic resources relating to crime in the early modern period. Part of the Early Modern Resources gateway.

• ExecutedToday.com

A daily chronicle of executions in history.

• The Guillotine Headquarters
  

A website focused on the history of the guillotine, including pictures and even animation.

• The Historical Violence Database

A collaborative research project on the history of violent crime, violent death, and collective violence from the Criminal Justice Research Center at The Ohio State University.

• James Revel

A website dedicated to the poem, “The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon’s Sorrowful Account of His Fourteen Years Transportation.”

• The Learning Curve: Crime and Punishment

An online resource for learning about the history of crime from the National Archives of the UK.

• Murder By Gaslight

A website devoted to chronicling notable nineteenth-century American murders.

• National Night Stick

A chronicle of the rougher aspects of nineteenth-century America.

• Outlaws and Highwaymen

A companion website to Gillian Spragg’s book of the same name. It includes transcriptions of fiction, street ballads, sermons, and other early crime literature, as well as images.

• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913

One of the best resources for crime history on the Web. The database includes trials of convicts who were transported to the American colonies.

• Rogue’s Gallery

  Transcriptions of early accounts of outlaws, pirates, and highwaymen.

• “Villainy Detected”: Crime and Consequences in Britain and America in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

A fantastic resource for essays and primary sources on early crime in America and Britain, including an 1835 edition of the United States Criminal Calendar and an 1824 version of the Newgate Calendar.

• The Word on the Street: Broadsides at the National Library of Scotland
  

Digital images of early broadsides, many of which are about crime and criminals.

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