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Article: State Trials.(Review)
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- History Today
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- August 1, 2000
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AFTER YEARS OF BEING LOCKED AWAY in libraries and antiquarian bookshops, the legal records of the State Trials have at last entered the electronic era. The State Trials on CD-ROM is a major publishing project this summer. For the first time the contents of more than 1,000 trials, from 1163 to 1858, will be available to historians and legal researchers on a single CD.
Information that would be almost impossible to find in the 58,000-plus printed pages can now be searched and located in seconds. This comprehensive collection gives valuable accounts of the development of the British legal system, and the constitutional history of Britain and former colonies, and ...