This repository contains datasets developed as part of the Skin and Bone project, funded by the British Academy and Leverhulme (BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant, SG2122/210101).

The project sought to develop a 360-degree approach to the body by exploring patterns of injuries to both skin and bone between 1760 and 1901, using an
interdisciplinary approach that combined criminal, hospital, and osteoarcheological records. A total of 50,659 individuals are represented, with 87,903 injuries extracted from physical descriptions across eleven archival datasets.

The archival datasets were: Osteoarchaeological data: St. Bride’s lower churchyard (1770-1849) Royal London Hospital (1825-1841) Payne Road/Bow Baptist (1816-1854). 2) Hospital Records: General Hospital Admission Registers Middlesex (1760-64, 1771-88) Royal London (1760, 1791, 1792, 1805) Guy’s (1813-39) St. Thomas’ (1773-6, 1781-9, 1790-9, 1800-9). 3) Convict records: Millbank Prison Register (1816-1828) Home Office Prison Licenses (1853-1889) [split into two datasets Male and Female] Metropolitan Police Habitual Criminal Register (1881-1901).

The data was prepared using approaches derived from natural language processing namely term dictionaries and co-occurrence.