Criminal Characters

Investigating the lives of historical offenders in Australia

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The following links offer further useful resources for exploring Australia’s criminal past.

The Prosecution Project investigates the history of the criminal trial in Australia, and has created a searchable database of Supreme Court cases for all Australian jurisdictions extending from the 1820s to 1920s.

Digital Panopticon allows you to search millions of records from around fifty datasets related to the lives of 90,000 convicts from the Old Bailey, many of whom were transported to the Australian penal colonies.

Old Bailey Online is a fully searchable database of some 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court between 1674 and 1913, including the trials of thousands of men and women transported to New South Wales, Tasmania and Western Australia.

Our Criminal Ancestors is a UK-based project that encourages and supports members of the public who want to explore the criminal past of their own families.

Resident Judge is a blog and research site about Judge Willis, who in 1841 arrived in Melbourne to become the first Resident Supreme Court judge for the district of Port Phillip.

Law Report is a podcast that offers stories about law reform, miscarriages of justice and legal culture in Australia. While its focus is mainly contemporary, it has produced a number of episodes about historical cases and crime.

The Twist is an animated short-form documentary series that brings to life some of Australia’s most intriguing true crime stories.

True Crime is a collection from the National Film and Sound Archive of historical news clips from some of the most significant crimes in Australian history.

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This research project is supported by the University of Technology Sydney through its Chancellors Postdoctoral Research Fellowship scheme.

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