, histoire urbaine, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine, London, Londres
Description
Organisers' description :
www.londonlives.org) will provide access, using an integrated search facility, to primary sources containing 240,000 pages of manuscripts sources, and 3.2 million names, reflecting the history of eighteenth-century London. It includes the 18th century material from the Old Bailey Online; the manuscript records of quarter sessions, three London parishes, Bridewell, St Thomas’s Hospital, and the Carpenter’s Company; datasets from the Westminster Pauper Biographies Project; and several datasets formerly deposited with the Arts and Humanities Data Service.
Conceived as an unconference, this event is designed to allow as many participants as possible to contribute in as many ways as possible. Contributions are invited from anyone whose research will benefit from use of the site.
List of podcasts :
Tim Hitchcock - Introduction and welcome
Robert Shoemaker - Criminal Lives and the Making of Modern Criminal Justice
Becky DiBiasio - Ghosts and the Old Bailey
Janice Turner - "Shifting it for themselves" - Working women on Rosemary Lane 1737-1755
Ernesto Priego - "The Harlot's Progress" - Bell's Life in London and the birth of the British comic strip
Susan Gane - Irish silk weavers
Melanie Winterbotham - William Winterbotham (1763-1829), political prisoner and ordinary Londoner
Margaret Makepeace - The East India Company's London warehouse labourers
Mary Clayton - Blood money
Rachel Ramsey - From casement to sashes : How windows redefine crime in Early Modern England
Heather Shore - Criminal Connections: Uncovering Plebeian Networks in the Metropolis
McDara Dwyer - The Irish Crime Explosion of the 1740’s: Its Origins, Course and the Response, 1736 – 1756
Simon Dixon - The Quakers of St Dionis Backchurch, 1680-1800
Ben Heller - Finding Pleasure in Plebeian Lives
Louise Falcini - Washerwomen, Laundresses, Barbers and Boot Blacks: the Business of Cleanliness Shekhar Krishnan - Urban History and the Geospatial Web
Sharon Howard - London Lives and Bastardy
Conference panel discussion
Tim Hitchcock - Renegotiating the Bloody Code : London in the 1780s
