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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
Posted in Digital History, Digital Panopticon, Old Bailey Online
Tagged data, dataviz, in her minds eye
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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
WHM18: Middlesex Vagrants in the 18th century
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
Posted in Digital History, London Lives Data, Plebeian Lives, WHM
Tagged data visualisation, statistics, vagrants, whm18
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WHM18: Women’s heights in the Digital Panopticon
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
Posted in Crime/Law, Digital History, Digital Panopticon, WHM, Women/Gender
Tagged data visualisation, statistics, whm18
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WHM18: Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
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
