Author Archives: Sharon Howard

MEAD Pauper Apprentices Philadelphia 1751-99

Posted on 30 April 2018

This post takes a look at an open dataset available through the University of Pennsylvania’s open access repository. The dataset, Indentures and Apprentices made by Philadelphia Overseers of the Poor, 1751-1799 (created by Billy G. Smith), is one of an … Continue reading →

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Old Bailey Proceedings Part 1: Offences

Posted on 17 April 2018

If you know me, the topic of this first post may come as unsurprising but also a bit eyebrow-raising. “Sharon, you’ve been working on the Old Bailey Online project (OBO) since forever. Aren’t you bored with it yet?” … Posted … Continue reading →

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WHM18: Middlesex Vagrants in the 18th century

Posted on 30 March 2018

My final data visualisation post for this Women’s History Month is back in the 18th century and takes a look at an open dataset, Vagrant Lives: 14,789 Vagrants Processed by the County of Middlesex, 1777–1786, which was created by Adam … Continue reading →

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Civil War Petitions in Denbighshire

Posted on 27 March 2018

I note that the website for Civil War Petitions: Conflict, Welfare and Memory during and after the English Civil Wars, 1642 – 1710 is up, with the first batch of petitions (I think) due later this year. And there are … Continue reading →

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WHM18: Women’s heights in the Digital Panopticon

Posted on 17 March 2018

I’ve recently been working on the Digital Panopticon, a digital history project that has brought together (and created) massive amounts of data about British prisoners and convicts in the long 19th century, including several datasets which include heights for women. … Continue reading →

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WHM18: Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps

Posted on 12 March 2018

Today I want to go on an excursion in “catalogues as data“. The UK National Archives’ Discovery catalogue is an excellent resource for this activity, because a) it has a lot of records that have document descriptions at ‘item’ or … Continue reading →

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International Women’s Day 2018: Women in the World Bank Data

Posted on 8 March 2018

The second instalment in this series of data visualisation posts for Women’s History Month 2018 looks at the World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI). This massive collection has data in several categories: demographic, education, work, poverty, health. It includes both … Continue reading →

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WHM18: Westminster Coroners’ Inquests 1760-99

Posted on 2 March 2018

For Women’s History Month 2018 I plan to make some visualisations of women’s/gender history datasets. I don’t know how often this will happen yet, but hope there’ll be at least one a week. I’ll blog about them here and post … Continue reading →

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