Author Archives: Sharon Howard

Westminster Coroners Inquests 1760-1799, Part 2

Posted on 10 January 2021 by Sharon Howard

This is the second of a two-part series about the Westminster Coroners’ Inquests data. See part 1 for more detail about the source of the data, and my initial explorations of the summary data. This post focuses more on the … Continue reading →

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Going Interactive with Old Bailey Online Data

Posted on 18 October 2020 by Sharon Howard

My first efforts at interactive data visualisations go back several years to some incredibly frustrating attempts to get the hang of D3.js. These were, with hindsight, doomed because (a) I didn’t really know any javascript, and D3 isn’t easy javascript; … Continue reading →

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Women, gender and non-lethal violence in Quarter Sessions petitioning narratives

Posted on 13 August 2020 by Sharon Howard

Cleaned-up and slightly extended version of a paper presented at the conference Gender and Violence in the Early Modern World (University of Cambridge, 23 November 2019). Introduction In 1594 Allys Whittingham, William Bealey and Margery his wife petitioned Cheshire Quarter … Continue reading →

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The Bluestocking Corpus: Letters by Elizabeth Montagu

Posted on 31 March 2020 by Sharon Howard

This post for Women’s History Month 2020 explores the Bluestocking Corpus of Elizabeth Montagu’s letters, created by Anni Sairio. This first version of the Bluestocking Corpus consists of 243 manuscript letters, written by the ‘Queen of the Blues’ Elizabeth Montagu … Continue reading →

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Calendars of State Papers Domestic on the Internet Archive

Posted on 7 February 2020 by Sharon Howard

Among its many other wonders, you can find a marvellous run of 16th- and 17th-century CSPD on the Internet Archive. But they’re not consistently titled, and there are duplicates of many volumes, so it’s not easy to piece them together. … Continue reading →

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Finding English and Welsh local history online

Posted on 14 July 2019 by Sharon Howard

This started with a question on Twitter about sources for JPs, which got me looking up some old references. This is another one that's not too easy to get hold of but sounds like a goldmine: https://t.co/JGK4BofKeE — Sharon Howard … Continue reading →

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Gender, institutions and the changing uses of petitions in 18th-century London

Posted on 23 April 2019 by Sharon Howard

An extended version of my paper for the April 2019 workshop held by the AHRC Research Network on Petitions and Petitioning from the Medieval Period to the Present, on the theme Petitioning in Context: when and why do petitions matter? … Continue reading →

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Old Bailey Voices: gender, speech and outcomes in the Old Bailey, part 1

Posted on 16 December 2018 by Sharon Howard

The Old Bailey Voices data is the result of work I’ve done for the Voices of Authority research theme for the Digital Panopticon project. This will be the first of a few blog posts in which I start to dig … Continue reading →

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