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TY - JOUR
T1 - Researching Eighteenth-Century Fraud in the Old Bailey
T2 - Reflections on Court Records, Archives, and Digitisation
AU - Griffiths, Cerian
PY - 2020/3/1
Y1 - 2020/3/1
N2 - This article seeks to provide reflection and guidance to researchers of fraud in Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This reflection explains two reasons why there is a dearth of historical research into fraud offences. These reasons are ontological and methodological. The definitions and laws of fraud are complex and difficult to identify, and one of the most accessible court archive, the Old Bailey Sessions Papers (the Proceedings), needs to be treated with caution by the researcher of fraud. This article uses the in-depth historiography surrounding the Proceedings and applies this to the research of fraud offences which, this article argues, require a particular methodological approach.
AB - This article seeks to provide reflection and guidance to researchers of fraud in Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This reflection explains two reasons why there is a dearth of historical research into fraud offences. These reasons are ontological and methodological. The definitions and laws of fraud are complex and difficult to identify, and one of the most accessible court archive, the Old Bailey Sessions Papers (the Proceedings), needs to be treated with caution by the researcher of fraud. This article uses the in-depth historiography surrounding the Proceedings and applies this to the research of fraud offences which, this article argues, require a particular methodological approach.
M3 - Journal article
VL - 2020
SP - 9
EP - 24
JO - Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Iuridica
JF - Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Iuridica
SN - 2450-2782
IS - 91
ER -