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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
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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
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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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WHM18: Westminster Coroners’ Inquests 1760-99
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
Posted in Digital History, London Lives Data, WHM, Women/Gender
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