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Westminster Coroners Inquests 1760-1799, Part 2
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
Going Interactive with Old Bailey Online Data
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
The Bluestocking Corpus: Letters by Elizabeth Montagu
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
Posted in Digital History, Early Modern, WHM, Women/Gender
Tagged data, dataviz, in her minds eye, letters, whm20, women's voices
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Gender, institutions and the changing uses of petitions in 18th-century London
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
Posted in Digital History, Early Modern, London Lives Petitions, Women/Gender
Tagged data, dataviz, in her minds eye
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Old Bailey Voices: gender, speech and outcomes in the Old Bailey, part 1
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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Westminster Coroners Inquests 1760-1799, Part 1
This will be a post in two parts about data relating to the series of Westminster Coroner’s Inquests on London Lives, which cover the period 1760-1799. … Posted at In Her Mind’s Eye
MEAD Pauper Apprentices Philadelphia 1751-99
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
Old Bailey Proceedings Part 1: Offences
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
