Category Archives: Women/Gender

Women, gender and non-lethal violence in Quarter Sessions petitioning narratives

Posted on 13 August 2020 by Sharon Howard

Cleaned-up and slightly extended version of a paper presented at the conference Gender and Violence in the Early Modern World (University of Cambridge, 23 November 2019). Introduction In 1594 Allys Whittingham, William Bealey and Margery his wife petitioned Cheshire Quarter … Continue reading →

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The Bluestocking Corpus: Letters by Elizabeth Montagu

Posted on 31 March 2020 by Sharon Howard

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 →

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Gender, institutions and the changing uses of petitions in 18th-century London

Posted on 23 April 2019 by Sharon Howard

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 →

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WHM18: Middlesex Vagrants in the 18th century

Posted on 30 March 2018 by Sharon Howard

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 →

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Civil War Petitions in Denbighshire

Posted on 27 March 2018 by Sharon Howard

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 →

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WHM18: Women’s heights in the Digital Panopticon

Posted on 17 March 2018 by Sharon Howard

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 →

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WHM18: Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps

Posted on 12 March 2018 by Sharon Howard

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 →

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International Women’s Day 2018: Women in the World Bank Data

Posted on 8 March 2018 by Sharon Howard

The second instalment in this series of data visualisation posts for Women’s History Month 2018 looks at the World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI). This massive collection has data in several categories: demographic, education, work, poverty, health. It includes both … Continue reading →

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