Amy Milka is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, based at The University of Adelaide. Her research considers the affective language of the courtroom in English criminal courts in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This paper, ‘Reporting Courtroom Emotions in Eighteenth-Century London’, was presented at a conference on ‘News Reporting and Emotion’ at The University of Adelaide in September 2017.