Dear list,
The Old Bailey Online is a collection of all the surviving transcripts of trials heard there from 1674 to 1913, curated to a very high standard. IMHO, it's probably the single best English historical source on the web. http://oldbaileyonline.org/
Mentioned on wikipedia under AHRC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_and_Humanities_Research_Council#Old_Baile...
As I have recently edited two entries to include links to trials on there,* I was wondering if there has been any more systematic efforts to add these sources to entries? Is there a convenient way of locating entries that might be relevant?
* Vladimir Burtsev: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Burtsev and Sarah Whitehead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Whitehead
I have also started a category, people tried at the Old Bailey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_tried_at_the_Old_Bailey
And just found that there is a template for OB trials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Old_Bailey But not found it used anywhere.
John
On 06 May 2017 at 11:17 John Levin <anterotesis@gmail.com> wrote:
And just found that there is a template for OB trials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Old_Bailey But not found it used anywhere.
Yes, that's a decent template including the Old Bailey identifier, created in 2012 by Andrew Gray. Just used in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Williams_(baby_farmer)
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Marks
as far as biographies go, according to "What links here" on the template page. Using the template does allow tracking usage of the Old Bailey page, that way and by tools.
Charles
On 6 May 2017 at 11:17, John Levin anterotesis@gmail.com wrote:
there is a template for OB trials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Old_Bailey
Added to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_the_Detectives
A very useful resource, thank you.
I have created a proposal for a Wikidata property for the site's IDs:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Old_Bailey_Proceedi...
please comment there.
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