Books and Pamphlets
Ackroyd, P. London, the Biography, London, Vintage Publications, 2001
——. Dickens: Public Life and Private Passion, London, BBC Publications, 2002
Anon. A Genuine Account of the Behaviour and Dying Words of William Dodd, London, 1777
Anon. A Letter to the Lord Mayor, Sir Stephen Theodore Janssen, London 1767, BL shelfmark 1608/3254
Anon. Eirenarcha, or of the Office of the Justices of Peace, London, 1619
Anon. Hell Upon Earth or the Town in an Uproar, London, 1729
Anon. History of the Press Yard, London, 1717
Anon. The Groans of the Gallows or, the Past and Present Life of William Calcraft, the Living Hangman of Newgate, London, 1846, Guildhall pamphlet, 1490
Ashby, A. and Jones, A. The Shrigley Abduction, Stroud, Sutton Publishing, 2004
Babington, A., The English Bastille, London, Macdonald, 1971
——. A House in Bow Street, Chichester, Barry Rose Publishers, 1999
Bailey, M. (ed.). The Hypochondriack, California, Stanford University Press, 1928, vol. 2, BL shelfmark no. 012272. dd.1
Barlow, T. The Justice of Peace: A Treatise concerning the Power and Duty of that Magistrate, London, 1745, British Library shelfmark 516.m.3
Baron, X. (ed.). London 1066–1914, Literary Sources and Documents, Robertsbridge, Helm, 1997
Baston, Thomas. Thoughts on Trade and Public Spirit, London, 1716, p. 127
Beard, C.A. The Office of the Justice of the Peace in England, New York, Columbia University Press, 1904
Bentham, J. Panopticon, postscript, part 2, London, 1791
——. An Introduction to the Principles and Morals of Legislation, London, 1823
Blomfield, R. ‘The Architect of Newgate’, in Studies in Architecture, ed. R. Blomfield, London, Macmillan, 1905
Bondeson, J. The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale, London, Da Capo Press, 2002
Boswell, J. ‘A Visit to Tyburn and Newgate’, London Journal, 3 May 1762
——. Life of Johnson, London, Everyman edition, 1992
B.L. A Description of Newgate by B.L., London, 1724, Guildhall Library reference A 8.7 no.2
Buxton, Sir Thomas. An Enquiry whether Crime and Misery are Produced or Prevented by our Present System of Prison Discipline, 1818
Blanning, T. and Cannadine, D. (ed.). History and Biography: Essays in Honour of Derek Beales, Cambridge University Press, 1996
Chamberlain, H. History and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, London, 1770
Cheney, M. Chronicles of the Damned, Yeovil, Marston House, 1993
Clay, J. The Prison Chaplain: Memoirs of the Rev. John Clay, London, 1861
Cobbett, W. Twelve Sermons, 1823, British Library shelfmark 08408.e.61
Cockburn, J. (ed.). Crime in England, 1550–1800, Princeton University Press, 1977
Critchley, T.A. A History of Police in England and Wales, London, Constable, 1978
Defoe, Daniel, Charity Still a Christian Virtue, London, 1719
——. A Narrative of all the Robberies, Escapes etc. of John Sheppard, London, 1724
Deveil, T. Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Thomas Deveil, Knight, one of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, London, 1748, British Library reference 1201.c.21
Dickens, Charles. American Notes, London, Penguin Books, 2000
——. David Copperfield, London, Penguin Books, 2004
——. Great Expectations, London, Penguin Books, 1994
——. Oliver Twist, London, Penguin Books, 1994
——. Sketches by Boz, London, Penguin Books, 1994
Dixon, W.H. The London Prisons, London, 1850
Dobash, R. et al. The Imprisonment of Women, London, Blackwell, 1986
Ellmann, R. Oscar Wilde, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1987
Emsley, C. The English Police: a Political and Social History, London, Longman, 1996
Engels, F. The Condition of the Working Class in England, London, Macmillan, 1973
Fielding, H. An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, London, 1757
——. Joseph Andrews, London, Penguin, 1987
Fry, E. Observations on the Siting, Superintendance and Government of Female Prisoners, London, 1825
Fry, K. and R. Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry, Edited by her Daughters, London, 1848
Gordon, Lord George. A Letter from Lord George Gordon in Newgate, London, 1792, British Library shelfmark no. 8135.c.49
Greenwood, J. Three Years of Penal Servitude, London, 1874, British Library shelfmark 12356.e.35
Griffith, A. Chronicles of Newgate, London, Bracken Books, 1883
Hall, J. Memoirs of the Right Villainous John Hall, London, 1708
Halliday, S. Water: a Turbulent History, Stroud, Sutton Publishing, 2004
Hay, D. and Snyder, F. Policing and Prosecution in Britain, 1750–1850, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989
Hooper, W.E. History of Newgate and the Old Bailey, London, Underwood Press, 1935
Howard, J. The State of the Prisons, Abingdon, Professional Books, 1977
Howson, G. Thief-taker General: the Rise and Fall of Jonathan Wild, London, Hutchinson, 1970
——. The Macaroni Parson, London, Hutchinson, 1973
Hutton, L. The Discovery of a London Monster called the Black Dog of Newgate, London, 1612
Keymer, T. (ed.). The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, London, Penguin, 1996
Kingsmill, J. Chapters on Prison and Prisoners, London, 1852
Langford, P. A Polite and Commercial People; England, 1727–83, Oxford University Press, 1994
Laurence, J. History of Capital Punishment, London, 1932 Letts, M. As the Foreigner saw us, London, Methuen, 1935
Linebaugh, P. (ed.). Crime in England, 1550–1800, Princeton University Press, 1977
Linebaugh, P. The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, London, Allen Lane at the Penguin Press, 2003
Loftie, W.J. History of London, London, Stanford University Press, 1884
Lupton, D. London Carbonadoed, 1632, Guildhall Library Ref. 2464ii
Maitland, William, FRS. History of London from its Foundation to the Present Time, London, 1775
Marks, A. Tyburn Tree, London, Brown Langham, 1908
Martin, B. John Henry Newman, His Life and Work, London, Continuum, 2000
Montagu, B. An Enquiry into the Aspersions upon the late Ordinary of Newgate, London, 1815
More, Sir Thomas. Yale Edition of the Complete Works of Sir Thomas More, ed. R. Sylvester, Yale University Press, 1976
Potter, H. Hanging in Judgment: Religion and the Death Penalty in England, London, SCM Press, 1993
Pückler-Muskau, H. Tour in England in the Years 1825–6, London, Collins, 1987, vol. 4
Riley, H.T. (ed.). Memorials of London Life in the 13th, 14th and 15th Centuries, London, Longmans Green, 1868
Rumbelow, D. The Triple Tree, London, Harrap, 1982 Sharpe, R. Memorials of Newgate and the Old Bailey, London, Blades, 1907
Skyrme, Sir Thomas. History of the Justices of the Peace, Chichester, Barry Rose Publishers, 1991
Smith, J. A Book for a Rainy Day, London, Methuen, 1905
Smith, Sir Thomas. De Republica Anglorum, London, 1583 Stow, J. Survey of London, 1603 edition, Oxford, 1908
Taylor, D. Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1750–1914, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1998
Waller, M. 1700: Scenes from London Life, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2000
Welch, Saunders. Observations on the Office of Constable, London, 1754, BL shelfmark 1417.i.31
Wilson, F.M. Strange Island, London, Longmans, 1955
Wise, S. The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London, London, Cape, 2004
Wontner, T. Old Bailey Experience, London, 1833
Newspapers and Magazines
City Press, 7 February 1903
Daily News, 23, 28 February, 9, 13 and 16 March 1846
Fraser’s Magazine, vol. 49, June 1864
Gentleman’s Magazine, December 1769
Illustrated London News, 4 October 1902
London Magazine, 1734
Morning Chronicle, 9 June 1789
Punch, June 1842, p. 240
The Rambler, 20 April 1751
The Times, 18 June 1846, 19 November 1849, 25 July 1872
Parliamentary Materials
Hansard, 29 March 1811, 1 May 1827
Journal of the House of Commons, vol. 2, 1641
Parliamentary Debates (House of Lords), 3rd series, 15 May 1854
Parliamentary Papers, vol. 56, 1895
Miscellaneous Materials
The Complete Newgate Calendar, Navarre Society Reprint, 1926
Journal of the Statistical Society, 1857
Minutes of Westminster Petty Sessions, 6 August 1719
Pennant’s Tour of London, 1805, Guildhall Library reference SL 84