Sharon Howard
My main research interests, apart from focusing on the early modern period (c.1500-1800), are crime and legal history; women and gender; Welsh and British history.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
Early Modern Digital History Women/Gender WHM Crime/Law women's voices whm17 Academic Work Blogs Old Bailey Online data Plebeian Lives 10 years blogging data visualisation Wales London Lives Petitions dataviz in her minds eye Resources Digital Panopticon
20 November 2022
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...
Finding Dates in an Early Modern Manuscript
28 April 2022
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...
Early modern online primary sources
2 February 2021
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...
Westminster Coroners Inquests 1760-1799, Part
10 January 2021
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...