About the Project

Funding bodies

Lincoln Record Society - Nigel Burn (1951-2020), from whose generous bequest the payment in respect of The Project is funded, using a form of words to be agreed with the Society.

Bishop Grosseteste University – wording to be agreed

Methods

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Terms of Use [I have copied the Old Bailey online wording for placeholder as I need to consult our Library for formal terminology to use here]

All material is made available free of charge for non-commercial use only.

Commercial exploitation of […] is prohibited without licence from [xxx] the relevant copyright owner is [xxx]

Commercial exploitation of the transcribed text and the design and content of the webpages, including use by television programme makers and examination boards, is prohibited without licence from [xxx]

Non-Commercial Use
Unless otherwise stated, the transcribed texts, XML files, data obtained using the Old Bailey API, any other textual data published by the project, and images of the Proceedings November 1834-1913, are made available for re-use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) license.

Attribution: You must give appropriate credit; please refer to the Citation Guide below for our recommended practice. If you are re-sharing data you should include a link to the CC licence (and/or to this page) to make the conditions of re-use clear to others.

Non-commercial: In this context, the project uses Creative Commons’ definition of non-commercial, as “not primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or monetary compensation”. It should not be assumed that other copyright owners referred to on this page would use the same definition.

Examples of use that the project would consider to be commercial include

use in film, television or radio programmes
use by for-profit educational companies in school teaching resources or examination papers
use by organisations which publish online resources requiring subscriptions for access
print reproduction of transcribed text with minimal analysis (beyond that which is permitted by “fair use”)
Examples of use that the project would consider to be non-commercial include

reviews, criticism or educational uses that would be covered by ‘fair use’
use of extracts or aggregated statistical data based on the site content in scholarly papers, articles, chapters and books, as long as the source of the data is acknowledged (see citation guide below)
use of extracts (which could include a small number of entire trials) in family histories, as long as the source of the data is acknowledged (see citation guide below)
These examples are not intended to be comprehensive. For further context, please consult Creative Commons’ guidance on NonCommercial interpretation, and contact the project for advice if in doubt. We aim to be as open to re-use as possible, while retaining the ability to generate income that will help to sustain the website in the future.

Copyright

Images of Original Text
All original text images of the Proceedings from 1674 to October 1834 are reproduced under license from the Libraries which hold the original publications: Harvard University Library, The Guildhall Library, The Corporation of London Record Office, The British Library, The Bodleian Library, The Union Theological Seminary, The Huntingdon Library, The John Rylands University Library, The Lincoln’s Inn Library, The Law Society, and Lord Crawford’s Library (National Library of Scotland).

Images of the Proceedings from December 1714 to October 1834 are reproduced from the microfilm programme “The Old Bailey Proceedings”, published by Harvester Microform, a former imprint of the Gale Group. Images from the Proceedings from November 1834 to 1913 have been scanned from a microfilm produced by Hudson House Associates, Inc., under the imprint of Trans-Media Microfilms and are the property of The Old Bailey Proceedings Online Project.

Images of some pre-1714 Proceedings are reproduced here courtesy of and with thanks to ProQuest Information and Learning Company as part of Early English Books Online™. Inquiries may by made to: ProQuest, 789 Eisenhower Parkway, Ann Arbor, MI 48108 USA. E-mail: info@proquest.com; web-page: https://www.proquest.com/.

Images of the Ordinary’s Accounts from 1676 to 1772 are reproduced under licence from the Bodleian Library (Oxford); British Library; Early English Books Online; Guildhall Library; Honorable Society of King’s Inns (Dublin); Hungtingdon Library (San Marino, California); John Rylands Library (Manchester); National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh); Osgoode Hall Law Library (Toronto); and the City of Westminster Archives Centre.

Other Images
Images used on webpages in this website belong to the original copyright holders, and should not be used without prior permission. Details of the origins and copyright of all images used may be found with the relevant picture.

Copyright in the images of the transcriptions, metadata, and design and content of webpages is owned by the University of Sheffield.

Citation Guide
Users who wish to cite material from the website in publications should, as with all internet publications, cite the URL (www.oldbaileyonline.org) and the date on which the website was consulted. Additionally, they should also cite the version number (i.e. 9.0), found in the bottom left of every page on this site. This website is updated on a regular basis, and including the version number allows others to trace your research process. See the What’s New Archive for information about changes to the site and when they were implemented.

The Project
To cite the project and web site as a whole please use the following format:

Tim Hitchcock, Robert Shoemaker, Clive Emsley, Sharon Howard and Jamie McLaughlin, et al., The Old Bailey Proceedings Online, 1674-1913 (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 9.0, Autumn 2023).

Subsequent citations might be shortened to:
Old Bailey Proceedings [or OBP].

See Project Staff for a complete list of the project team, and their roles in creating the site.

The authors of the Historical of the College, About the Project and all other sections of this website are given at the bottom of each page, and these should be cited in the following format:

Robert Shoemaker, with contributions from Saanika-Jeet Dhillon, “Gender in the Proceedings”, Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 9.0, Autumn 2023).