Data Visualisations
Posts at In Her Mind’s Eye
Old Bailey defendants
Petitions
Paupers
Coroners Inquests
Work in progress
These are very experimental; they may change or be removed. (For this reason, I do not recommend referencing them in academic publications!)
Unless stated otherwise, code/data is licensed as CC-BY-SA and you’re welcome to copy and re-use under the terms of that licence.
Petitions in context
- London Lives Sessions Papers 1690-1799: page (image) counts
- Petitions in London Lives Sessions Papers, page counts by year, 1690-1799
- Same again, proportional
- London Lives Petitions by Court, 1690-1799 (grouped bar chart)
- Petitions by year and court, 1690-1799 (stacked bar chart)
- London Lives Petitions by Decade, 1690-1799
Petition word counts
Note: these charts use reworked versions of the public release files, from which marginal annotations etc that are not part of the body of the petition have been trimmed. May be slow to load.
- Word counts, 1690-1799 (log scale)
Comparing types of petition
- Parish petitions (from churchwardens and overseers of the poor) v others, 1690-1799 (v1: stacked bar chart)
- Parish petitions v others 1690-1799 (v2: grouped bar chart)
- Parish petitions v others 1690-1799 (v3: proportional stacked chart)
- Parish petitions concerning settlement/removal disputes, 1690-1799
- Parish petitions v others: comparing average word counts
- Same comparison, log scale
Gender
- Comparing gender of petitioners, 1690-1799 (proportional stacked chart)
- Comparison of average word counts of petitions from men and women, 1690-1799
Other work
- Notes on ‘Settlement and Removal: Poor Relief and Exclusion in 18th-century London’ (Cultures of Exclusion May 2017)