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Women, gender and non-lethal violence in Quarter Sessions petitioning narratives
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
Posted in Crime/Law, Early Modern, Women/Gender
Tagged court records, petitions, PowerOfPetitioning, violence
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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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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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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
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
International Women’s Day 2018: Women in the World Bank Data
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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Tagged data visualisation, international womens day, whm18
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