Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Newgate Calendar, subtitled The Malefactors' Bloody Register, was a popular publication whose first edition came out in 1774. The "Calendar", in five volumes, comprised the biographies of celebrated criminals and their crimes since the year 1700. A new edition was published in 1824 by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin, two lawyers, and a further edition in 1826, under the title, The New Newgate Calendar. The title refers to London's notorious Newgate prison. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.