The Old Bailey Corpus

This historical corpus consists of [Proceedings of the Old Bailey](http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/); the Old Bailey was London’s central criminal court between 1674 and 1913. The corpus is annotated for detailed utterance-level sociolinguistic annotation at the following three levels: sociobiographical speaker information (gender, age, occupation, social class), pragmatic information (speaker role in the courtroom such as judge, witness, etc.), and metatextual information (the scribe, printer, and publisher of the individual Proceeding).

The corpus is available for download from CLARIN-D (Saarland University) and for online browsing through CQPWeb.
For the corpus manual, see [Huber et al. (2016).](https://www.clarin.eu/resource-families/historical-corpora#Huber%20et%20al.%202016)

This corpus contains proceedings of the Old Bailey (i.e., legal documents) from 1674 to 1913.