Our thanks to the whole team which produced the updated London Lives--Jamie McLaughlin (software engineer), Sharon Howard (data manager), and Mary Clayton (proofreader). And to the funder, the Univ of Sheffield Alumni, who recognised the value of keeping major websites up to date.

In surveying the history of The London Journal, how it has responded to changes in the worlds of publishing, academic fashions, and its subject matter, the introduction to this special issue tells a story which will be of interest to anyone with an interest in academic journals.

For the more criminally inclined, there are also new pages on Victims and Defendants, Patterns of Crime and Prosecution, and Prosecuting Crime. These make use of some of the new statistics and visualisations which have become available.