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Professor of Digital History
Selected publications
Article
Story, Daniel J, Guldi, Jo, Hitchcock, Tim and Moravec, Michelle (2020) History’s future in the age of the internet. American Historical Review, 125 (4). pp. 1337-1346. ISSN 0002-8762
Crymble, Adam, Dennett, Adam and Hitchcock, Timothy (2018) Modelling regional imbalances in English plebeian migration to late eighteenth-century London. Economic History Review, 71 (3). pp. 747-771. ISSN 0013-0117
Hitchcock, Timothy (2018) Digital affordances for criminal justice history. Crime, History & Society, 21 (2). pp. 335-342. ISSN 1422-0857
Hitchcock, Tim and Turkel, William J (2016) The Old Bailey Proceedings, 1674–1913: text mining for evidence of court behavior. Law and History Review, 34 (4). pp. 929-955. ISSN 0738-2480
Hitchcock, Tim, Crymble, Adam and Falcini, Louise (2015) Vagrant lives: 14,789 vagrants processed by the county of Middlesex, 1777–1786. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 1. ISSN 2059-481X
Hitchcock, Tim and Shoemaker, Robert (2015) Making history online. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 25. pp. 75-93. ISSN 0080-4401
Hitchcock, Tim, Crymble, Adam and Falcini, Louise (2014) Loose, idle and disorderly: vagrant removal in late eighteenth-century Middlesex. Social History, 39 (4). pp. 509-527. ISSN 0307-1022
Hitchcock, Tim, Turkel, William J and Helmreich, Anne (2014) Rethinking inventories in the digital age: the case of the Old Bailey. Journal of Art Historiography, 11. ISSN 2042-4752
Klingenstein, Sara, Hitchcock, Tim and DeDeo, Simon (2014) The civilizing process in London’s Old Bailey. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111 (26). pp. 9419-8242. ISSN 1091-6490
Hitchcock, Tim (2013) Confronting the digital: or how academic history writing lost the plot. Cultural and Social History, 10 (1). pp. 9-23. ISSN 1478-0038
DeDeo, Simon, Hawkins, Robert, Klingenstein, Sara and Hitchcock, Tim (2013) Bootstrap methods for the empirical study of decision-making and information flows in social systems. Entropy, 15 (6). pp. 2246-2276. ISSN 1099-4300
Hitchcock, Tim (2005) Begging on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Journal of British Studies, 44 (03). pp. 478-498. ISSN 0021-9371
Book
Corfield, Penelope J and Hitchcock, Tim (2022) Becoming a historian: an informal guide. University of London Press, London. ISBN 978191447715-7
Hitchcock, Tim and Shoemaker, Robert (2015) London lives: poverty, crime and the making of a modern city, 1690-1800. Cambridge University Press, Cambrdge. ISBN 9781107025271
Hitchcock, Timothy and Shoemaker, Robert (2006) Tales from the hanging court. Hodder and Arnold, London. ISBN 9780340913758
Book Section
Hitchcock, Timothy (2017) The body in the workhouse: death, burial, and belonging in early Eighteenth-Century St Giles in the Fields. In: Braddick, Michael J and Innes, Joanna (eds.) Suffering and happiness in England 1550-1850: narratives and representations: a collection to honour Paul Slack. The Past and present book Series . Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 153-173. ISBN 9780198748267
Hitchcock, Timothy (2012) Re-negotiating the bloody code: the Gordon riots and the transformation of popular attitudes to the criminal justice system. In: Haywood, Ian and Seed, John (eds.) The Gordon riots: politics, culture and insurrection in late eighteenth-century Britain. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 185-202.
Reports and working papers
Hitchcock, Tim and Turkel, William (2021) The Old Bailey Proceedings, 1674-1913: Text Mining for Evidence of Court Behavior (annotated version). Other. Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.
Other
Godfrey, Barry, Shoemaker, Robert, Hitchcock, Tim, Oxley, Deborah and Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish (2017) [Website] The Digital Panopticon: the global impact of London's punishments, 1780-1925. Digital Humanities Institute, University of Sheffield.