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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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Civil War Petitions in Denbighshire
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
Settlement and Removal: Poor Relief and Exclusion in 18th-century London
From the Act for the Relief of the Poor of 1662, or so-called “Settlement Act” onwards, various pieces of 17th- and 18th- century legislation formally codified entitlement to parochial poor relief by “settlement“. The main ways of gaining a settlement … Continue reading
Posted in Early Modern, London Lives Paupers, Plebeian Lives, Women/Gender
Tagged conference paper, data visualisation
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Women’s History Month 2017: Afterthoughts
To wrap up this month, this post is just a few notes – half-formed thoughts, not ‘conclusions’ – on some recurring themes that struck me as I was writing and researching posts (and shaped some of my choices as the … Continue reading
Women Petitioners: Belinda Sutton, an ex-slave in Massachusetts
In February 1783, Belinda Sutton petitioned the Massachusetts General Court for a pension from the estate of Isaac Royall Jr, her late master. (In this petition she names herself simply ‘Belinda, an Affrican’, but in later documents she gave the … Continue reading
Women Petitioners: London Servants
I’m going to round off WHM2017 with a couple of posts indulging my current interests in petitions. Today I have two petitions from the London Lives Petitions Project: both are from working women who petitioned London magistrates for help after … Continue reading
Posted in Crime/Law, Early Modern, London Lives Petitions, WHM, Women/Gender
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The Journey of Sarah Knight (1666-1727)
In October 1704, Sarah Knight left her home town of Boston, MA, for a five-month journey on horseback to New York, which she recorded in a travel diary which is memorable for its descriptions of the perils and people she … Continue reading
Mary Saxby (1738-1801), an 18th-century vagrant and memoirist
Mary Saxby’s Memoirs of a Female Vagrant was published posthumously, with the twin goals of raising some money for impoverished relatives and ‘prompting the active beneficence of the present age, to regard the wandering classes of the poor, with that attention … Continue reading
