Category Archives: Women/Gender

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

Posted on 23 April 2019 by

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

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

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

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

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

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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WHM18: Westminster Coroners’ Inquests 1760-99

Posted on 2 March 2018 by

For Women’s History Month 2018 I plan to make some visualisations of women’s/gender history datasets. I don’t know how often this will happen yet, but hope there’ll be at least one a week. I’ll blog about them here and post … Continue reading →

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Settlement and Removal: Poor Relief and Exclusion in 18th-century London

Posted on 20 May 2017 by

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 →

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