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Finding English and Welsh local history online
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
Defendants’ voices and silences in the Old Bailey courtroom, 1781-1880
This is a version of the paper I gave at the Digital Panopticon launch conference at Liverpool in September 2017. In the interests of fostering reproducible research in the humanities, I’ve put all the data and R code underlying this … Continue reading
Remixing and Remaking Digital History: the London Lives Petitions
For those of you who like such things, this post explores the rationale and methodology for my work on London Lives Petitions: it’s a revised/extended version of my paper at the Digital Humanities Congress, September 2016, in the session on … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Work, Digital History, Early Modern, London Lives Petitions, Plebeian Lives
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What can you do with 10,000 petitions? Digging deeper into the data
The London Lives Petitions project is exploring approximately 10,000 petitions (and petitioning letters) addressed to magistrates which survive in the voluminous records of eighteenth-century London and Middlesex Sessions of the Peace which were digitised around 2008 by the London Lives … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Work, Digital History, Early Modern, London Lives Petitions, Plebeian Lives
Tagged data visualisation
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“And your petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray etc”: how an 18th-century petition works
What does a London Lives petition look like? Well, here is a pretty typical example, from the City of London Sessions Papers (1692), in which I’ve highlighted the structural and most characteristic elements: [1] To the right honourable the Lord … Continue reading
What can you do with 10,000 18th-century petitions? 1: Counting Stuff
Since my last post introducing the new London Lives petitions project, I’ve released a slightly updated version of the data: I added some petitions and letters I’d missed on the first sweep and removed a few documents that were either … Continue reading
The humble petitioners of 18th-century London
I’ve spent the last couple of months on a mission to find petitions in the Sessions Papers of London Lives. The outcome of that quest is just over 10,000 petitions which I’ve made available under a Creative Commons licence, with … Continue reading
Our Criminal Past special issue in Law, Crime and History journal
A very quick post to note that I have an article in this volume, based on my presentation at the first Our Criminal Past event in 2013. But there’s plenty more there for crime historians to be interested in.
Posted in Academic Work, Crime/Law, Digital History, Old Bailey Online
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