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‘I fear ye man is lost’
A sad traveller’s tale from early 18th-century Denbigh, occasioned by this tweet: Ouch! #histmed #earlymodern accidents while travelling or working! https://t.co/kAqjNGC3fi — Lisa Smith (@historybeagle) September 19, 2016 In September 1726 the Denbigh coroner Thomas Lloyd, held an inquest and … 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
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
“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
‘she was soe stuborn that she would give me noe answer’
The many headed monster is running an online symposium on the Voices of the People (and see #voxpop2015 on Twitter) which is well worth your attention, and Anna Jenkin posted a number of responses on Twitter, musing on how the … Continue reading
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New Year, Old Stuff, Revamped: things in progress
1. Meet the new project, which also happens to be just about my oldest project: Gender and Defamation in York 1660-1700 The core of this is research I did way back in 1999 for my MA dissertation. It was the … Continue reading
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