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This blog is twenty years old. It s not going away any time soon, but it s not likely to become a hive of activity either. Not many academic history/humanities blogs I knew in 2004 are still around at all, and even fewer are still doing all the odd things we did then with any regularity. We Continue reading Time flew
Originally posted on In Our Name: Royal Letters, Power and Diplomacy in Scotland and England (1513-1542) : Performing and Resisting Power in Early Modern Life Plate 1 from Thomas May, Arbitrary government displayed to the life, 1690. Image from The Folger Shakespeare Library (www.folger.edu) Online Symposium, 19th May 2023 Call for Papers: Ideas, acts and practices
It s Day of Digital Humanities 2022. (I m not sure if I ve ever done anything to mark a #DayOfDH. I m probably cleaning data most years. I rather enjoy cleaning data, but that doesn t mean I want to write about it.) This year, I m mostly doing TEI XML markup for the Alice Thornton s Books Project and today Continue reading Finding Dates in an Early Modern Manuscript
Update: Early Modern Resources is back up, though not as yet fully restored. Some readers may have noticed that my Early Modern Resources website has been down for a couple of months now. I m rebuilding it, but it s going to be a little while. In the meantime, here is a google spreadsheet of about 150 Continue reading Early modern online primary sources
This is the second of a two-part series about the Westminster Coroners’ Inquests data. See part 1 for more detail about the source of the data, and my initial explorations of the summary data. This post focuses more on the text of inquisitions (the formal legal record of the inquest’s findings and verdict). Posted Continue reading Westminster Coroners Inquests 1760-1799, Part 2
My first efforts at interactive data visualisations go back several years to some incredibly frustrating attempts to get the hang of D3.js. These were, with hindsight, doomed because (a) I didn’t really know any javascript, and D3 isn’t easy javascript; (b) I was really only just getting the hang of manipulating data D3 was just Continue reading Going Interactive with Old Bailey Online Data
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 Sessions, setting out the many abuses and outrages perpetrated against them by Anne Lingard.1 She Continue reading Women,…
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 between the 1730s and the 1780s. Elizabeth Montagu (née Robinson, 1718-1800) was one of the Continue reading The Bluestocking Corpus:…
Among its many other wonders, you can find a marvellous run of 16th- and 17th-century CSPD on the Internet Archive. But they re not consistently titled, and there are duplicates of many volumes, so it s not easy to piece them together. I made a chronological list while I was preparing a sample of State Papers petitions Continue reading Calendars of State Papers Domestic on the Internet Archive