Review Essay: Reading the Victorian Underworld

At the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, there is no denying that new digital technologies have dramatically reshaped the way we conduct research, not least in the reproduction of large numbers of primary sources online, including many that were previously difficult for scholars...

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Udgivet i:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/chs,
Hovedforfatter: Crone, Rosalind
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprog:Anglais
Udgivet: Crime, Histoire & Sociétés 2010
Online adgang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Summary:At the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, there is no denying that new digital technologies have dramatically reshaped the way we conduct research, not least in the reproduction of large numbers of primary sources online, including many that were previously difficult for scholars to access. An unprecedented range of key resources in the history of nineteenth-century crime can be viewed by almost anyone, anywhere, at any time. Furthermore, advances in scanning technology hav...