Tim Hitchcock is a reader in 18th-century history at the University of Hertfordshire.
Robert Shoemaker is senior lecturer in history at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of "Prosecution and Petty Crime in London and Rural Middlesex, c. 1660-1725" and co-director of" The Old Bailey Proceeedings," an electronic database of all printed eighteenth-century accounts of felony trials.
