colonialism

The Digital Panopticon: The Global Impact of London Punishments, 1780-1925

Economic and Social History, History | Australia, colonialism, court cases, crime, eighteenth century, England, law, nineteenth century, twentieth century

This [dataset] allows you to search millions of records from around fifty datasets, relating to the lives of 90,000 convicts from the Old Bailey. Use our site to search individual convict life archives, explore and visualise data, and learn more about crime and criminal justice in the past.

Data type: images, temporal, text

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Becoming Coolies: Rethinking the Origins of the Indian Labour Diaspora, 1772-1920

History, Post-Colonial Studies | 19th-century, asia, colonialism, migration

A webpage presenting a carefully selected and redacted sample of 4,600 Migrants who left from Calcutta (Kolkata) to work in sugar plantations Mauritius, Natal (South Africa), Trinidad and Guyana between 1857 and 1869. The database was compiled for research on immediate post-1857 migration from north India.

Data type: text

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The Digital Panopticon: The Global Impact of London Punishments, 1780-1925

Becoming Coolies: Rethinking the Origins of the Indian Labour Diaspora, 1772-1920

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