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Notes

1 ‘Voices from the Old Bailey’, BBC Radio 4 (2010–2014), https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012stwb; Alison Flood, ‘Naomi Wolf Accused of Confusing Child Abuse with Gay Persecution in Outrages’, The Guardian (8 February 2021), https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/feb/08/naomi-wolf-accused-of-confusing-child-abuse-with-gay-persecution-in-outrages.

2 ‘Old Bailey Proceedings Online: Citations Bibliography’, https://www.zotero.org/groups/31512/old_bailey_proceedings_online_citations_bibliography/library [accessed 29 June 2024].

3 Sharon Howard, ‘Bloody Code: Reflecting on a Decade of the Old Bailey Online and the Digital Futures of Our Criminal Past’, Law, Crime, and History, 1 (2015), 12–24.

4 ‘Digital Projects Using Old Bailey Online Data’, The Old Bailey Proceedings Online, 1674–1913, https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/about/projects#past [accessed 29 June 2024].

5 ‘What’s New (Autumn 2023)’, Old Bailey Proceedings, https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/about/whats-new [accessed 29 June 2024].

6 Cross-tabulation of offence category (rows) against defendant gender (columns), Old Bailey Proceedings, https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/search/statistical?initviz=table-cross&month_lte=1&rows=defendant_gender&series=offence_category&text=vagrant&year_lte=1800#results [accessed 1 May 2024].

7 ‘The African Diaspora’, Old Bailey Proceedings, https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/about/black [accessed 1 May 2024].

8 ‘Doing Statistics’, Old Bailey Proceedings, https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/about/doingstatistics [accessed 29 June 2024].

9 This number derived from an advanced search using the Bibliography of British and Irish History with the following limiters: title contains ‘London’; publication dates, 2014–2024; type, book; dates, 1500–1900.

10 Most notably Hitchcock and Shoemaker’s own London Lives, which experimented with digital footnoting; but also books like Jensen’s Vagabonds, Gattrell’s Conspiracy on Cato Street, and Conley’s Women Who Killed, which relies enormously on the database, so much so the date range in its title owes to the Old Bailey’s coverage (1674–1913). See: Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker, London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690–1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015); Oskar Jensen, Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London (London: Duckworth Books, 2022); Vic Gatrell, Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022); and Carolyn A. Conley, Debauched, Desperate, Deranged: Women Who Killed, London 1674–1913 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).

11 Indicatively, see Section 2, ‘Background’, in: Peter J. Grund, ‘Disgusting, Obscene and Aggravating Language: Speech Descriptors and the Sociopragmatic Evaluation of Speech in the Old Bailey Corpus’, English Language and Linguistics, 27.3 (2023), 519–520.

12 Howard, ‘Bloody Code’, 13.

13 See: ‘Risk Outlook Report: The Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Market’, Solicitors Regulation Authority (2023), https://www.sra.org.uk/sra/research-publications/artificial-intelligence-legal-market/ [accessed 29 June 2024].