Criminal trials from 18th and 19th centuries go online for first time
On March 2, 1882, Roderick Maclean brandished a pistol outside Windsor railway station and attempted to shoot Queen Victoria. Things did not go according to plan. The monarch lived and Maclean was charged with high treason, but acquitted on the ground of insanity. Ordered “to be kept in strict custody and gaol until Her Majesty’s pleasure shall be known”, he spent the rest of his life in Broadmoor Hospital.
His case is one of 1.4 million criminal trials from the 18th and 19th centuries that feature in registers that go online for the first time today.
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