Adam Crymble
Migrant Histories is a series of ongoing interdisciplinary projects that seek to build new understanding of what it was like to be on the move in Georgian Britain and Ireland (c. 1714-1837). The projects take an interdisciplinary look at migration and includes scholars working in social history, law, digital history, geography, and historical linguistics. This multi-faceted view of the history of migration provides new perspectives on the forces that shaped migrant and local experience.
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Rudolph Ackermann, I am an Immigrant
9 October 2017
Originally posted on the ‘I am an Immigrant‘ Poster Campaign website, hosted by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI). My Story: We must thank a German...
True crime: why the Irish counterfeiting wave of the late 18th century was a myth
19 May 2017
Satirical Bank Note (1820), highlighting how easy it was to be hanged for spending fake money, despite how prevalent it was. George Cruikshank and William Hone.The claim that immigrants...
Were the Irish in 19th century London more criminal, or just easier to catch?
19 February 2017
Adapted from a section of: Rudolph Ackermann, ‘The Pillory’, Microcosm of London, 1807.The early nineteenth-century Irish in London are often remembered as poor, semi-criminal...
20 January 2017
Once declared a vagrant by a magistrate, the person would be taken into custody and would begin their journey back ‘home’. Home in this context meant the parish where they...